Social Science - 1 January 2007

The loudest cheer at a hockey game comes when a fight breaks out. Pugilism is actually considered a sport. We enjoy violent movies and watching people get blown away. Also humans are the only animals with a capacity for so much violence. Most animals posture and take threatening positions before they actually resort to violence. Why are humans so different?

2007-01-01 11:56:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Anthropology

After realizing that the American public hated her for interviewing OJ,
Judith used the excuse that she was abused or something like that -- and even that was not completely true.

How many women immediately identified with her and supported her because she said that? How many women still maintained their opposition to her trying to become famous by ditching morals and interviewing a murderer?

2007-01-01 11:41:28 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

I feel like I'm a f***up at whatever I do. I have yet to find something I'm good at that I can make a living off of. I don't have many friends and I'm not seeing anybody, and I'm at this low-paying job with a professional degree. What am I to do?

2007-01-01 11:38:32 · 8 answers · asked by Sameera A 1 in Psychology

Is there anyone else in this forum who's sick to death of the Hate-filled rhetorical questions designed just to rile people up?

Examples:
Pro-choice vs. Pro-life
Religion vs. evolution
race-baiting
Calling members of one political party or another "Nazi's", "Communists", or "Satan-worshippers".

Why would someone post such junk unless it is simply to inflame and agitate others? Shouldn't civility play a part in keeping this forum from becoming just another ugly "flame" war?

2007-01-01 11:33:10 · 4 answers · asked by chocolahoma 7 in Psychology

ok well ill state the main things ok well i was in this building i think it was in school i was hanging out with my friends and this guy ''oscar'' were not friends anymore but he was there and then i saw my old friends they go to a different school so i guess they were ditching and i said hi to them,one of my friends didnt even notice me so i was calling out her name becky becky and then she turned well in my dream they got in trouble by my principle for ditching then i went outside and there was a lion on the window like a live lion roaring at me then another scenery i was on the football field sitting and my friend came up to me and said that my ex was going to ask me something and i was like what ? note:''oscar'' was there too. then came another scenery it was like a restaurant ''oscar'' was there too and my bestfriend was with me then a trailer hit someone i knew i ran outside to see if he was okay and hes leg was injured i think he was bleeding then i woke up also in the dream

2007-01-01 11:29:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

does our decisions and way of thinking in anyhow controled by genetic? if so how come we juged on things we don't have hand in it??

2007-01-01 11:20:44 · 8 answers · asked by desert rose 2 in Psychology

It had a gruff, bald guy who narrated it and went around to all these locations in the middle east talking about the early Christian church. It was probably 4 to 8 hours long total. Thanks.

2007-01-01 11:20:13 · 1 answers · asked by Nate G 1 in Other - Social Science

Im scared I will never fullfill my dreams and its really getting me down how can I stop myself from being so gloomy when I have so much I wish to do in my life

cut a long story short

my parents brought me up well and everyone sees me as the sensible son that I am and that I am clever because I have an old head on young shoulders but im scared im too boring and not wild enough for my age (im 20)

im very old school for my age and moral, I have an oppinion on everything, I wont always tell you but inside me my moralistic nature comes to the fore and I have my views and I am very stuck in my ways when it comes to my views.

but because I was brought up in this effective bubble with my parents not letting me out a lot now I want to go out and I do (not everynight but now and then) I dont know what to do with myself. All the guys I go out with all seem more relaxed and content where as me im ok but not as open as I could be I always have my guard up at everything and it bugs me

2007-01-01 11:17:58 · 18 answers · asked by Music fan 4 in Psychology

I was thinking about this today, and I was wondering, would it be possible for there to be a modern society that existed in total anarchy? A society that was as advanced as America, but with no government to speak of? If such a society could exist, what would it be like?

2007-01-01 11:08:29 · 27 answers · asked by G 6 in Sociology

2007-01-01 10:52:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

Does it have anything to do with self-esteem, how a person is raised, or what just curious. Happy New Year!!

2007-01-01 10:51:29 · 7 answers · asked by Caryn B 2 in Psychology

Proponents of conservative economic thinking advance theories that sound nice and elegant, but I have never seen any data that backs up the idea that giving more wealth to the wealthy stimulates the economy and makes everyone better off. Does anyone have iron-clad evidence that this social experiment has done anything other than advance the fortunes of the fortunate?

2007-01-01 10:50:15 · 5 answers · asked by Murphy 3 in Economics

2007-01-01 10:40:41 · 9 answers · asked by fishyinmytank 3 in Psychology

Not just in the rich and powerful, but in the average guy.
And what traits are they?

2007-01-01 10:40:33 · 7 answers · asked by Soundjata 5 in Gender Studies

2007-01-01 10:38:40 · 11 answers · asked by sanju s 2 in Psychology

about distance learning

2007-01-01 10:34:16 · 4 answers · asked by fishyinmytank 3 in Psychology

I keep having these dreams that I'm fighting someone and beating the tar out of them. One dream I was beating this man up and he had blood running out of his nose. In the last dream I was hitting all these people at different points in the dream. Every time I hit them, their faces would smash up like when you pound play-dough. I would really appreciate your interpretations.

2007-01-01 10:32:58 · 14 answers · asked by Cori 3 in Psychology

2007-01-01 10:31:30 · 4 answers · asked by myellowd 2 in Psychology

Don’t they need respect?
Don’t they need to be heard to be free to have their rights?
To be treated as a humane being not only like a beautiful ladies which only good for one thing

2007-01-01 10:27:07 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Gender Studies

2007-01-01 10:25:13 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

2007-01-01 10:24:50 · 9 answers · asked by Charlotte T 2 in Psychology

and the fear of what lies beyond this world.

2007-01-01 10:22:41 · 16 answers · asked by animescifigamer359 2 in Psychology

including women suffrage or feminisim

2007-01-01 10:20:36 · 6 answers · asked by tasty2cutie 1 in Gender Studies

2007-01-01 10:15:38 · 4 answers · asked by fishyinmytank 3 in Psychology

2007-01-01 10:12:20 · 7 answers · asked by Alison 2 in Economics

2007-01-01 10:07:30 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

birth contol for women

2007-01-01 10:03:46 · 3 answers · asked by beulah 1 in Gender Studies

2007-01-01 09:58:14 · 7 answers · asked by J 1 in Psychology

And how do you think you get it?

2007-01-01 09:57:44 · 8 answers · asked by Why_so_serious? 5 in Other - Social Science

is there ANY possible way to NOT think about something. because if you try too hard, you remember what your trying to do and you remember. and if you try to little, you will think about it. for example, think about cheese, now try to forget about it, hard huh? is there any way i need to know!

2007-01-01 09:51:51 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology