Josh Purse

A man walks down the street and sees an attractive female he’d like to meet. Through which social strategies can he signal to the female his viability as a p...

A Tale of Two Cultures: Information Extraction Via Torture Vs. Empathy (Interrogator’s name has been changed to Dr. Benjamin Doright to protect information r...

Susan Sontag: Remembering The Past A common saying is that history is written by the winners. Who’s to say what the history books might reflect if, say, the ...

Organizations continuously look for ways to grow the company and tackle new challenges as they arise. In doing so, these corporations are attempting to manag...

The following is a story, a completely untrue story, but one of creation nonetheless. You see, God had decided it’s been a long time since his last return, a...

Employee Needs vs. the Bottom Line A common debate found within leadership psychology and the business world as a whole, involves which way to best lead an o...

Bilingualism There is a large body of literature on the cognitive effects and benefits of learning a second language. Adding a language to a child’s educatio...

When thinking of implicit personality theory, an old joke comes to mind. How does one tell when a politician’s lying? His mouth is moving. Of course, the jok...

Predictors of Helping Since the brutal attack and murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964, many studies have been performed over the years attempting to determine w...

Introduction Summary Often credited as being the father of cognitive dissonance, Leon Festinger (1961) sought to explain motivation in the absence or near-ab...

Motivating employees has always been one of the greatest challenges within the business environment. Some corporations are known for having highly productive...

Tests, in general, are used to measure or evaluate any number of values, abilities, and conditions. Just about everyone has been involved with some type of t...

Abstract This study attempts to exploit the effects of perceptual filling-in by using an inkblot, low contrast, mild deceit, and a lack of visual cues to dis...

Most know of the old proverb, “Give a man a fish and he eats for the day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime.” What happens when the “ability” to...

It would seem the terror afflicting the small town of Mobileville, MO has been eradicated. According to a local police report, police were called to the scen...

In today’s issue of Gullible News, we have a report(1) from the local Fox affiliate in Neera, TX, KKNK, which delves into the topic of cicadas. You may have ...

It is March, rainy, and I am just stepping off the plane and onto the tarmac. The landing we had just succumbed to could only be described as frenzied. Many ...