I pray it doesn't happen to us, but just in case it does...

Here's a story regarding how to deal with conflict in the lab and/or with your advisor. Let's face it. It happens, and it's good to know what to do when it does.

PhD students not entertaining enough for reality TV

This story in nature really bothered me. How about it people? Let's put it to a vote. How many people think we should do a videoblog and show this guy that scs students are just as interesting as medical students (i.e., scrubs)?

Human Computer Interaction conference

Hi Everyone,

I know one of you mentioned an interest in HCI, and I'm interested in virtual reality environments as well. In the new scientific american podcast they talk about a conference on it. Here is the link.

Also for those of you who are more social psych oriented and are interested in the implicit association test (IAT), a new study on anti-smoking (tobacco and marijuana) ads evaluates ad campaigns and how it affects viewers' attitudes about smoking as assessed by the IAT.

Founding a tradition at UC Merced

This post marks the beginning of the founding graduate students' blog in the UC Merced's social and cognitive science program.  The intentions are to facilitate collaboration and sharing of ideas, and can certainly be extended to fun things to do in the Central Valley.

The title is a spoof on Pinker's book, The Language Instinct, if that wasn't obvious.   Feel free to make requests to change it as it only took me 15 minutes of thinking and a thesaurus to come up with.   Also, I am not a graphic designer or web designer, so this blog has a very generic look.   If anyone is gifted in these areas please make changes to the template.

By using the atom feed we won't have to use mass emails to keep in touch this summer.  In firefox you can click on the live bookmarking icon on the right side of the address field.  I’ve also added the link in the sidebar.  If you haven't tried Netvibes yet I would recommend trying it, and adding the atom feed to your content.

Hope you are all having a great weekend.