Dr. Janina Scarlet and colleague at the value of attending a comic book convention and how people can cope with post-con blues, tips of value to people following a wide variety of other activity. After you have looked forward to an event for a long time, how do you manage your return to everyday life afterward?
Newest Trailers for Sin City, The Hunger Games, and The Maze Runner
At SDCC 2014 Dimension Films released a new red band trailer for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, which sticks to the true Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller style of the first…
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Shocking Moments from Great TV Shows: OMGWTFBBQ!
Great TV shows are often punctuated with OMG moments— those shocking twists you never saw coming which hit us like a freight train full of plutonium. While some shows are…
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Orange Is the New Black: The Prisoner’s Dilemma Compounded?
The Netflix women’s prison series Orange Is the New Black opened its second season by posing a problem in which two prisoners must each admit a dangerous truth or lie about it. They may face a social dilemma in which each may suffer in different ways if they do not both do the same thing, but is their predicament really social psychology’s so-called Prisoner’s Dilemma?
Super Skinners or Fantastic Freuds? Psych at Comic-Con ’14
San Diego Comic-Con International offers a variety of educational programming including two dozen panels featuring psychologists, psychiatrists, and related topics ranging from combating bullies to better living through video games and TV to how to teach the nerdy way and even how the culture of Comic-Con engenders real-life superheroes.
Marvel’s Thor Gets a Mighty Exciting Makeover
Thank heavens for Marvel! People (yes, men and women both) have been demanding that comic book companies and writers join the rest of us in the 21st Century by adding…
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