[Featuring: Dr. ExperimentalPsych]

"Alright please, no nerd fights. Wait, this could be a reality series! 'Nerd Battles!'"

"The Thesaurus: a way to look at related constructs"

"Well, thankfully, Cohen has come to the rescue again. Yes, Papa Cohen, who brought you power analysis, has provided you with kappa"
This is where we were supposed to oooh and ahhh...

"I love when you make up your own data. You can do whatever the hell you want!"
I really hope this was a joke...

"One challenge of test-retest reliability is mortality, or attrition. Now if we're studying old people, real mortality may be a factor here."

[Why is an MA considered lower than a PhD?]

"Once you've mastered something, you have to doctor it." -Dr. SocialPsych

"Don't resist me...Take the information in..." -Dr. NeuroPsych
You're getting sleepy...

On statistical power in research sampling procedures...
"So the moral of the story is 1,000 people per group." -Dr. ExperimentalPsych

On diversity problems with snowball sampling procedures...
"Hopefully as our snowball gets bigger, it zigzags around the side of the mountain" -Dr.ExperimentalPsych

Rapid fire from a human evolution lecture...
"We're going to beat the erectus record!"
"There's no other homo on the planet."
"Why the big brain? There's so many damn neurons up there."-Dr. PersonalityPsych

[Inaugural posting!]

"I told you guys I was sleepy and you're trying to make me think!" -Dr. SocialPsych

I have hilarious professors that also happen to be extraordinary at their job. This blog is dedicated to all those words of unusual wisdom, Freudian slips that may have been intentional, and awesome jokes that keep me awake at the crack of 9am.

I am a graduate student somewhere in California and I'm studying Experimental Psychology. Yes, I know some of them may not be as awesome out of context.

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Regarding schema-relevant behavior
"There's no threat when people are acting nice." -Dr. SocialPsych
Or they could be waiting to stab you

"Life is all about the 3 F's.
-Feeding
-Fighting
-and uh, F...Fornication." -Dr. NeuroPsych

Regarding Phineas Gage (of pole-through-head-and-surviving fame) -Dr. PersonalityPsych
"Yeah...I suppose a pole through the head will change personality."
I'd be pretty pissed too

"Word of the day: Genetical" -Dr. PersonalityPsych
Why did I feel so unclean when typing that word?

"There's no field like Psychology for coming up with constructs. That's our great gift to society. Here, take depression..." -Dr. ExperimentalPsych