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@callumogilvy

All things psychology, with a side focus upon CryptoTechnologies. Crypto-psychology ? Maybe I made that up.

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@callumogilvy Feb 6, 2018, 1:35 AM UTC

Russian Roulette & The Courtroom: 'Bias has a significant effects upon Verdicts'.

So this week has been a strange'ol time. Firstly, I haven't managed to sit down and send one single post into the Steemy ether in what, a whole week?! Not enough research has been conducted into the…

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@callumogilvy Jan 30, 2018, 12:10 AM UTC

The Psychology of 'Clickbait' - 5 reasons why your brain wants you to click.

Okay so, confession time - A part of me wanted to take this theory for a live-action test ride. You have my unreserved apologies if the title just so happened to tantalise that deeply neurotic, post-…

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@callumogilvy Jan 27, 2018, 8:12 PM UTC

Stereotyping: Biker's Like Movies Too - The 'Carlsberg Social Experiment'.

One-hundred & Forty-eight bikers. Hairy, studded jacket-donning, wouldn't-want-to-run-into-you-down-a-dark-alley looking bikers. All crammed into your local movie-theatre. But hey - lucky for you…

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@callumogilvy Jan 25, 2018, 8:51 PM UTC

How to achieve true happiness: Advice from the 75-year long 'Harvard-Grant Study'.

This is just intended to be a quick post to share with you all a wonderful study which I stumbled across by happen-chance, I think the lessons learned from it can be of use to us all in living the be…

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@callumogilvy Jan 25, 2018, 4:47 PM UTC

'The King who believed he was a Cow' - Tales from the edge of Psychology (#1).

http://i.imgur.com/HHrqUQ0.jpg -'Boanthropy'- Brains are funny'ol things sometimes. Lovingly crafted by natural selection, tweaked and pruned like a wobbly-bonsai for millions of years, they are stil…

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@callumogilvy Jan 25, 2018, 12:45 AM UTC

Hanoi: Sunshine through the trees.

My girlfriend and I went travelling last year, noodling around Asia for a few months. I've just gotten around to uploading the thousands of photos from my poor, overladen phone (it's become about as…

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@callumogilvy Jan 24, 2018, 4:39 PM UTC

The Power of Conformity: Could this hardwired social behaviour be damaging your financial future?

Evolutionary Inheritance. http://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Groupthink-1.jpg We are social creatures, those of us here who like to identify as human beings. This evolutiona…

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@callumogilvy Jan 24, 2018, 3:19 AM UTC

Britney Vs Bach: A Social Experiment.

I figure we're all guilty of it, to a certain extent it's probably always been this way. Perhaps modern life, with all of it's trappings - both digital and environmental - only serves to exacerbate t…

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@callumogilvy Jan 24, 2018, 1:23 AM UTC

Posted to incorrect tag.

Apologies, this post was posted to an inappropriate tag, accidental spam cleaning crew have been called in. Thank you for your patience. Elevator Music

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@callumogilvy Jan 23, 2018, 2:26 AM UTC

Psychopathy: A brief look at the causes, statistics and people behind the diagnosis.

American Psycho, Silence of the Lambs, Seven Psychopaths, Shia LaBeouf (Only kidding on that last one there, I think..) : 'Psychopathy' - Officially termed Antisocial Personality Disorder, or APD - h…

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