Posts tagged Personality
What Listening to This Episode Says About You Personality
What Listening to This Episode Says About You Personality

Like astrology and psychics, online personality tests generally use the Barnum effect to trick you into thinking they have something meaningful to say. They're tricksy like that. But they have also been used for extremely nefarious reasons, and in one instance, an implementation that lead to the beginning of the end of democracy in America. Also, we take some personality tests in real time.

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Social Science, Myth-Busting, PseudoscienceWWDWWDAbraham, Shanebraham, Online Personality Tests, Personality, Assessment, Psychology, the Self, Sonic, Psychics, AstrologyComment
183 | Handedness and Personality or Just Handedness
183 | Handedness and Personality or Just Handedness

What does your hand dominance say about your personality? What about your brain? Probably very little. Either way, we dig into the research and implications of hand and foot preference.

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Myth-Busting, The BrainScott Abraham MillerAbraham, Shane, Shane Spiker, Shanebraham, Right Handed, Left Handed, Hokey Pokey, Hand Dominance, Hand Preference, Handedness, PersonalityComment
146 | Right and Left Brain Personality
146 | Right and Left Brain Personality

Begun in the work on patients with epilepsy, split-brain research suggested maybe people generally rely on one hemisphere of their brain over the other. Except, that doesn’t actually make any sense when you understand how the brain works. Although most people already know this, we expanded on this by elaborating on the history of this idea, and the one or two researchers who have continued to push this line of research despite its lack of fruitful outcomes… or general utility. Still, a lot to learn about this seemingly obvious urban myth.

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Philosophy, Myth-Busting, Pseudoscience, The BrainScott Abraham MillerAbraham, Shane, Shanebraham, Personality, Analytic, Creative, Myth, Urban Legend, Roger Sperry, Steven Novella, Science Based Medicine, Skepticism, Magical Thinking, Science Literacy, Science, Bruce Morton, Tests, Left brain, Right brain, Hemisity, Hemisphere DominanceComment
114 | A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock 'N Roll: The Psychology of Music Preference | Why We Do What We Do
114 | A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock 'N Roll: The Psychology of Music Preference | Why We Do What We Do

Why do people like the types of music that they like? Is it a reflect of your inner personality? Is it just what your friends or parents listened to? Is it hardwired in your brain? Is it some combination of all of those things? If you’ve ever wondered why people like music that seems baffling to you, or wondered why you like the music that you prefer, then this is the episode for you! If not, then we still have a really fun discussion with the classic duo Abraham and RyanO.

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Philosophy, The BrainScott Abraham MillerSkepticism, Abraham, RyanO, Music, A Little Country, A Little Rock 'N Roll, Psychology of Music, Musical Preference, Heavy Metal, Country, Rap, Hip Hop, Electronic, EDM, Personality, Theory of Musical Preference, Indie, Pop, Punk, Dubstep, Contextual Exposure HypothesisComment