Thursday, September 6, 2007

545 548 Reading from Right to Left and Let them Eat Cake

Message no. 545[Branch from no. 512] Posted by Thomas Culhane (1311520071) on Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:24am Subject: Re: Reading from Right to Left!

A neat thought that I will share with my wonderful dyslexic cousin who has suffered so much from the condition!

Message no. 548 Posted by Thomas Culhane (1311520071) on Sunday, March 4, 2007 1:49pm Subject: LET THEM EAT CAKE...

Here is a fascinating report of a psychological study that showed that the rich, in particular, create a fictional environment in their head that makes them blind to the suffering of others.

Read it and see!

http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/070228_moral_outrage.html

Here is a link to a video called "Wishful seeing" that corresponds to our discussion of different perceptions of the environment affecting our behaviors:

http://www.livescience.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=nnm4038_wishfulseeing

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