Poligraph is not the only one of method to detect a lie. Another one method is Implicit Association Test. It is based on assumption what timing for True-Guilty answers is shorter for guilt person than False-Guilt answers and True-Innocent is faster than False-Innocent for innocent person.
And this was tested by Bruno Verschuere and 36 volunteers. Study shows what it works perfect but only if questioned person knows nothing about this method, does not take it before and do not want to cheat.
Full study review on Cognitive Daily blog.
They also give link to on-line version of such a test. Try it today, you never know when you need to cheat lie detector next time.
I have found today another good site with video lectures – http://videolectures.net/
I came to this site by link to lecture about Psychology and Human Computer Interface by David Kieras, University of Michigan. psychology
Presentation “Just You Wait” by Kent Beck on QCon. A look at trends and how they affect us. Communication, simplification, unintended consequences, disappearing models, and new approaches of design and tests are examined. Kent takes diverse set of issues that are changing in our world and asks “why are we doing this?”
Economic historians have discovered since the 1960s that the average participant in the British economy in 2000 was fifteen times better supplied with food and clothing and housing and education than her remote ancestors. If ones ancestors lived in Finland, the factor is more like 29, the average Finn in 1700 being not a great deal better off in material terms than the average African at the time. If ones ancestors lived in the Netherlands it is only a factor of 10 or so, since in 1700 the Netherlands was the richest (and the most free and bourgeois) country in the world, 70 percent better off than the soon-to-be United Kingdom. If in Japan, the factor since 1700 is fully 35. 2 If South Korea, the factor merely in the past half-century, since 1953, when income per head, despite access to some modern technology, was about what it had been in Europe 450 years before, is almost 18, crammed into a four decades instead of, as in the British case, stretched out over two centuries.
Interesting article from Neurophilosophy blog on scienceblogs.com about how our emotion can affect not only our behavior but our exact vision.
A number of behavioural studies have already shown that emotions can have an effect on perception. When, for example, observers are asked to selectively pay attention to a target at the centre of the visual field while ignoring surrounding “distractor” objects, the prior induction of a positive emotional state leads to more interference from the surrounding objects than does induction of a negative mood. Full article on Neurophilosoply
Time perception also affected by emotion state. There is another article.
That is the time–emotion paradox: why given that we possess a sophisticated time measurement mechanism, are we so inaccurate in our temporal judgements when experiencing emotions?
One more example of this. People believe that when we deal with physical attraction, we see somebody, and we know immediately whether we like them or not. Attracted or not. Which is why we have these four-minute dates. So I decided to do this experiment with people. I’ll show you graphic images of people — not real people. The experiment was with people. I showed some people a picture of Tom, and a picture of Jerry. I said “Who do you want to date? Tom or Jerry?” But for half the people I added an ugly version of Jerry. I took Photoshop and I made Jerry slightly less attractive. (Laughter) The other people, I added an ugly version of Tom. And the question was, will ugly Jerry and ugly Tom help their respective, more attractive brothers? The answer was…
“If you’re hacking for profit, the best way to make money is with the largest pool of potential victims,” he said. “The biggest crowd is going to be around these trends.”
These are the search terms put you at the most risk from hackers:
Word Unscrambler
Lyrics
Printable Fill in Puzzles
Free Ringtones
Solitaire
Free Music
Free Music Downloands
MySpace
Top 10 Malware Sites what can make your computer or your bank account ill. Google not only scan web for all sorts of textual information. It can recognize sites with a content of some specific sort.
Our automated systems found more than 4,000 different sites that appeared to be set up for distributing malware by massively compromising popular web sites. Of these domains more than 1,400 were hosted in the .cn TLD. Several contained plays on the name of Google such as goooogleadsence.biz, etc.
Other malware researchers reported widespread compromises pointing to the domains gumblar.cn and martuz.cn, both of which made it on our top-10 list. For gumblar, we saw about 60,000 compromised sites; Martuz peaked at slightly over 35,000 sites. Beladen.net was also reported to be part of a mass compromise, but made it only to position 124 on the list with about 3,500 compromised sites.
The Dutch “artist” who in 2004 turned her pussy into a handbag under the performance art title “My dearest cat Pinkeltje (2004)” has published personal details of those who emailed her expressing their disgust.
Katinka Simonse, aka Tinkebell, copped a veritable shitstorm of e-abuse for the feline fashion accessory stunt (pictured), and she and fellow artist Coralie Vogelaar decided to track down the senders, sniff out their intimate online secrets and present the whole thing for public consumption.
In trying to understand how gravity behaves on the quantum scale, physicists have developed a model that has an interesting implication: mini black holes could be everywhere, and all particles might be made of various forms of black holes.
As the physicists explain, gravity is considered an astronomical-scale force; its effects on smaller scales seem to be virtually nonexistent. However, as the scientists write, “it has often been assumed that near the Planck scale, gravity would somehow assert itself and become comparable in strength to the other forces of nature, likely as a product of some grand unification picture.” Coyne and Cheng approach the problem of small-scale gravity by presenting a new model of black hole evaporation. As black holes lose energy, they slowly evaporate, shrinking in size down to the quantum scale – where they may be identical to elementary particles.
