Joseph

Today’s word of the day:

nar?cis?sism

? ?/?n?rs??s?z?m/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [nahr-suh-siz-em] Show IPA Pronunciation

1. inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity.

2. Psychoanalysis. gratification derived from admiration of one’s own physical or mental attributes, being a normal condition at the infantile level of personality development.

3. A psychological condition characterized by self-preoccupation, lack of empathy, and unconscious deficits in self-esteem.

All evening long four cardplayers had been pestered by Morris, a self-proclaimed genius who commented on everyone’s poker hand and style of play. When Morris went out of the room for a moment, they hit on a plan to silence him.

“Let’s make up a game no one ever heard of,” one of them said. “Then he’ll have to shut up.”

The busybody Morris returned. The dealer tore two cards in half and gave them to the man on his left. He tore the corners off three cards and spread them out in front of the man opposite him. Then he tore five cards in quarters, gave 15 pieces to the man on his right and kept five himself.

“I have a mingle,” he said. “I’ll bet a dollar.”

“I have a snazzle,” the next man announced. “I’ll raise you two dollars.”

The third man folded without betting, and the fourth, after much deliberation, said, “I’ve got a farfle. I’ll raise you five dollars.”

Morris shook his head vehemently. “You’re crazy,” he said. ” You’re never going to beat a mingle and a snazzle with a lousy farfle!”

Okay 72, how ’bout a Dvar Torah for the bourbon you stole from me?

Whad’ya say?

bitachoncoaching – Welcome to the CR, new member!

Rule #1: Threads never stay on topic.

Rule #2: Tangents start by the third post, at the latest.

squeak, you are showing your age. CB has had NO licensing requirements for MANY years now. 🙂

squeak, CB requires no license (unlike amateur [ham] radio.)

cut it out asdfghjkl, I know you work for Golden Flow cholov yisroel farms. You transport their fine product to our brethren in the west coast. You will gets lots of sachar for it!!!!!!!!

I posted an article about this a few days ago in the CR on the X-mas lights thread.

65 is passing.

brook – I bet he dumped you and your coverin yourself!

squeak – one fem, is one too many.

You claimed to be a CB hack and asdfghjkl said his handle is ”Rusty.” You are the only two potential truck drivers I know around here. Oh, and Yonason told me beferesh he is a truck driver (between legal gigs.)

Shocking study finds most will torture if ordered

Some things never change. Scientists said on Friday they had replicated an experiment in which people obediently delivered painful shocks to others if encouraged to do so by authority figures.

Seventy percent of volunteers continued to administer electrical shocks — or at least they believed they were doing so — even after an actor claimed they were painful, Jerry Burger of Santa Clara University in California found.

“What we found is validation of the same argument — if you put people into certain situations, they will act in surprising, and maybe often even disturbing, ways,” Burger said in a telephone interview. “This research is still relevant.”

Burger was replicating an experiment published in 1961 by Yale University professor Stanley Milgram, in which volunteers were asked to deliver electric “shocks” to other people if they answered certain questions incorrectly.

Milgram found that, after hearing an actor cry out in pain at 150 volts, 82.5 percent of participants continued administering shocks, most to the maximum 450 volts.

The experiment surprised psychologists and no one has tried to replicate it because of the distress suffered by many of the volunteers who believed they were shocking another person.

“When you hear the man scream and say, ‘let me out, I can’t stand it,’ that is the point when the real stress that people criticized Milgram for kicked in,” Burger said.

“It was a very, very, very stressful experience for many of the participants. That is the reason no one can ethically replicate the experiment today.”

‘SURPRISING AND DISAPPOINTING’

Burger modified the experiment, by stopping at the 150 volt point for the 29 men and 41 women in his experiment. He measured how many of his volunteers began to deliver another shock when prompted by the experiment’s leader — but instead of letting them do so, stopped them.

In Milgram’s original experiment, 150 volts seemed to be the turning point.

In Burger’s modified experiment, 70 percent of the volunteers were willing to give shocks greater than 150 volts.

At one point, researchers brought in a volunteer who knew what was going on and refused to administer shocks beyond 150 volts. Despite the example, 63 percent of the participants continued administering shocks past 150 volts.

“That was surprising and disappointing,” Burger said.

Burger found no differences among his volunteers, aged 20 to 81, and carefully screened them to be average representatives of the U.S. public.

Burger said the experiment, published in the American Psychologist, can only partly explain the widely reported prisoner abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq or events during World War Two.

“Although one must be cautious when making the leap from laboratory studies to complex social behaviors such as genocide, understanding the social psychological factors that contribute to people acting in unexpected and unsettling ways is important,” he wrote.

“It is not that there is something wrong with the people,” Burger said. “The idea has been somehow there was this characteristic that people had back in the early 1960s that they were somehow more prone to obedience.”

Reuters/Dec. 19, 2008

bored, you sound regretful that the learning guys take you to a lounge rather than a fancy restaurant.

This is an example of the goy:

Shocking study finds most will torture if ordered

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Some things never change. Scientists said on Friday they had replicated an experiment in which people obediently delivered painful shocks to others if encouraged to do so by authority figures.

Seventy percent of volunteers continued to administer electrical shocks — or at least they believed they were doing so — even after an actor claimed they were painful, Jerry Burger of Santa Clara University in California found.

“What we found is validation of the same argument — if you put people into certain situations, they will act in surprising, and maybe often even disturbing, ways,” Burger said in a telephone interview. “This research is still relevant.”

Burger was replicating an experiment published in 1961 by Yale University professor Stanley Milgram, in which volunteers were asked to deliver electric “shocks” to other people if they answered certain questions incorrectly.

Milgram found that, after hearing an actor cry out in pain at 150 volts, 82.5 percent of participants continued administering shocks, most to the maximum 450 volts.

The experiment surprised psychologists and no one has tried to replicate it because of the distress suffered by many of the volunteers who believed they were shocking another person.

“When you hear the man scream and say, ‘let me out, I can’t stand it,’ that is the point when the real stress that people criticized Milgram for kicked in,” Burger said.

“It was a very, very, very stressful experience for many of the participants. That is the reason no one can ethically replicate the experiment today.”

‘SURPRISING AND DISAPPOINTING’

Burger modified the experiment, by stopping at the 150 volt point for the 29 men and 41 women in his experiment. He measured how many of his volunteers began to deliver another shock when prompted by the experiment’s leader — but instead of letting them do so, stopped them.

In Milgram’s original experiment, 150 volts seemed to be the turning point.

In Burger’s modified experiment, 70 percent of the volunteers were willing to give shocks greater than 150 volts.

At one point, researchers brought in a volunteer who knew what was going on and refused to administer shocks beyond 150 volts. Despite the example, 63 percent of the participants continued administering shocks past 150 volts.

“That was surprising and disappointing,” Burger said.

Burger found no differences among his volunteers, aged 20 to 81, and carefully screened them to be average representatives of the U.S. public.

Burger said the experiment, published in the American Psychologist, can only partly explain the widely reported prisoner abuse at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq or events during World War Two.

“Although one must be cautious when making the leap from laboratory studies to complex social behaviors such as genocide, understanding the social psychological factors that contribute to people acting in unexpected and unsettling ways is important,” he wrote.

“It is not that there is something wrong with the people,” Burger said. “The idea has been somehow there was this characteristic that people had back in the early 1960s that they were somehow more prone to obedience.”

just that it make so much sense knowing you, that we know found out you missed so much schooling…

If we strive to emulate how our Zeidas and Bubbes had children while slaves in Eretz Mitzrayim, it would be a good start in strengthining our Bitachon.

If the voters are wrong will mango have to change genders to conform with what he/she was voted as?

Curious, Bais Yaakov maydel is with me on this vote.

I am enrolled in a very intense graduate program with almost no time to spare. In addition to the many, many hours of class per week, there is also significant travel time, preparation, studying, reports…

Must be a guy.

asdfghjkl, if you were really in Ireland you shoulda wished happy new year 5 hours ago…

Just drop in to the Coffee Room between courses and homework, and all your stress will disappear.

brooklyn19, why???????????????????????????????????

qwertyuiop, call him rusty the truck driver

a brand new one

BYM: That’s him!!!!!!!!!!!!!