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Note to Reader

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About the Authors Do I Smell Good?

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Sleepless at LASA

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The Tasty Truth Big Boys Do Cry

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Doodle

Color On Color

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Could the color of a jersey change the score of the game?

Goodnight Moon

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How do sleeping problems, like insomnia, effect everyday life?

Depression: To Medicate or To Not? How therapy is better than medication.

Hypnosis

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Dive deep into the mind, where your very thoughts can be altered.

Nightmare On Your Street

The horrors of sleepwalking

Pressure To the Pointe

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How pressure affects performers, such as dancers.

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much fun working to fulfill deadlines and making sure that our magazine was the best that we could make it. We hope that you njoy it as mu

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We have worked long hard hours putting our precious time into completeling this psychology magazine. We have had so much fun working to fulfill deadlines and making sure that our magazine was the best that we could make it. We hope you enjoy it as much as we enjoyed making it.

Our mission to you is to satisfy your cravings for psychology and knowledge of the human mind.

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Go Psycho Meet the Staff

Morgan E Morgan is a cool cat who is always upbeat . She loves dancing, kittens, and hanging out with friends. Her hair is wildy gorgeous and distracting, for her group often spends time staring at its beauty. If you ever want to hear a scary story or a fairy tale, ask Morgan to tell you because she is the best story teller. She is a little crazy at times, but that’s what makes her the lovable person she is.

Andrea C Andrea is a sweet ginger who hates being alone. She has a fantabulous style that always has everyone jealous.

She has a delightful laugh that is always nice to hear.

She loves to gorge down pistachios and watermelons whenever she can. She has the sweetest personality that makes you want to hang out with her 24 hours a day cuz she’s HOT LIKE THAT!

Sofia S Sofia is a funny kid who always has a vision. She spends her free time googling random things and finding the best pictures, making her a master googler. She has spontaneous outbursts of funny, which make you wonder how it’s possible to be that awesome. It is impossible to find a bad picture of her; we’ve tried and failed. Psychology has always been something she loved to learn about and writing in the magazine was just an excuse to learn more.

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Do I Smell Good?

Ever wondered about your

Scientists have always known that animals give off scents called “pheromones� to attract partners, but until recently we didn’t know that humans do this too. Big money is beind made by companies who have tried to harness these chemicals. But how do they really work? In animals, three types of pheromones have been identified.

There are primers which can even change the endocrines produced by others in the community. There are releasers increase reproductive acts. And informants, that give

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information about health, and fertility. But it is a little fuzzy still with human pheromones.

The two hormones that humans produce are Androstenone in men, and Androstenol in women. These pheromones do more than just attract the opposite sex but have been shown to even regulate fertility in women and other hormones in men. So women with fertility problems can be helped by being around the male hormone, androstenone.

Studies with these commercial pheromone perfumes have showed huge amounts of activity in the Vomeronasal Organ in the nose when exposed to them. This lead to further activity in the brain controlling emotions and emotional response. This means that the perfume really did work.

Color On Color

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especially from the referees. Psychologists weat flies and hearts race as both teams from the New York-based Research Institute charge onto the field but what is going through on Addictions did a study on the infractions the heads of each team? Could the vivid blue called on teams based on jersey color. Their of one team’s uniform be sending signals to results showed that referees called more inthe brain and very thoughts of the other team? fractions on dark colored teams. “A recent What is the blue team receiving from the othstudy found that pro hockey teams in black er’s blood red jerseys? According to many exattire incurred 6 percent more penalties over periments color affects us enough psychologa four-year period than teams that wore colically to influence our moods, and even our orful gear. In some performance in sports. seasons, this increase We associate certain translated into an extra colors with certain feeltwo-minute penalty per ings. If we were put in game.” But the reasons a room with everything could go deeper than just yellow maybe an exhow noticeable the coltremely happy feeling ors are, but to how our would come over us. Or brain interprets them. maybe we would start to Black has always feel sick like too much Phillip Hawkins been associated with sun or bad food. The dark, evil, and the unsame applies for colLBJ Football team known. If a referee was or other places. When overseeing a game between a dark maroon we play teams with a color associated with team and say, a green team, although more strength or vigor it may make us play worse. eye catching, the maroon team would get its In a study done with a virtual computer errors noticed more because we are prone to game, people playing with the red uniformed associate the darker colors with those things. players did better than the people who got Jessica Ritchie, on the Westover Orca the blue uniformed players. It was actually Competitive Swim team has her own story of a follow up to the 2004 Olympics where it how color affects her performance. The team became an object of skepticism. If color of is supposed to wear white swim caps with a jersey made that big an impact in a comthe logo of their team and the name on them, puter game, then imagine how much drama “But I never do I always wear my yellow this could cause in the big money sports. one,” says Jess, “it makes me more confident But it could also be more trivial factors and it makes me feel like people know who like the fact that red is a more easily noticed I am.” All that from a cap the color yellow? color and when your color on the computer

It has always been known that color is red, the signals in your brain are activated can make a room feel smaller or larger, a more quickly. But in real sports this could woman’s curves thinner or wider, and now quite the disadvantage. With more easily the score a win or a loss. noticed colors comes more attention,

“In the case of LBJ, the whole Purple Pride thing makes us feel so much like a team and gives us confidence.”

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Sleepless at LASA

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When you’re in high school, the last thing on your mind is getting the healthy amount of sleep each night. Doctors recommend for the average teenager to get about 9 hours of sleep in order to let the neccessary hormones that cause sexual maturation and growth to be released. But in conclusion to a poll taken by many LASA high-schoolers, this is not the case for most teenagers.

The average amount of sleep a LASA student gets during the week 2 to 4 hours- 7% 5 to 7 hours- 68% 8 to 10 hours- 25% 11 to 12 hours- 0%

The average amount of sleep a LASA student gets on the weekend 2 to 4 hours- 3% 5 to 7 hours- 10% 8 to 10 hours- 57% 11 to 12 hours- 30%

So next time you are tempted to go to bed late and play one more game of black OPs or chat for ten more minutes on Facebook, remember that teens in particular need more sleep.

Don’t follow in the path of these particular LASA kids and get some sleep!

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Goodnight Moon Andrea C

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In every children’s story it seems like the entire city shuts off at night. Every kid hops into bed and their moms tuck them in tight. The light chirping crickets lull them into a sweet dream. But these stories never mention those few unfortunate people who just can’t go to sleep. Their hardships and long nights are never explained, never choosing to reveal the troubles of insomnia. But this doesn’t mean that it doesn’t happen.

Kellie Pfertner, a typical woman diagnosed with sleeping problems, has had her own share of sleepless nights. “Once I start my day the next morning, I am generally fine, but you go a little crazy in the middle of the night. It is very frustrating and can be depressing,” Kellie says.

Approximately 30 to 50 percent of the general population suffers from some type of insomnia or long-term sleeping problems. This isn’t something that one can just shoo away. People who have insomnia don’t just have one bad night. For them every night is a long one. And others don’t even realize the troubles that they have to go through.

When she is finally able to drift off to sleep, the slightest noise wakes Kellie up for the rest of the night. Her husband goes to sleep hours after she does and has a habit of clearing his throat “every 30 seconds.” These small details that most would overlook carry great significance to Kellie. Due to this, she has to sleep in an entirely different room so that she has even thes slightest chance of getting some rest.

Kellie’s sleep has improved, but her worst nights would range from three to four hours of sleep per night for about four to five nights a week. These bad nights would cause migraines throughout the

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day. “I sometimes think that my job performance suffers because of my lack of focus and exhaustion,” she admits.

Kellie is not the only one with this problem. Kathryn Zehner, a student at Anderson High School has had sleeping problems since she was six years old. Although she takes melatonin to help her doze off, there is no real cure for her continuous nights of tossing and turning in bed. Her lack of sleep also affects her schoolwork, leaving her tired and unfocused during class.

Insomnia causes so many extra problems that one has to deal with. Sleeping is a treasure that most take as a given. If groggy mornings are bad for those who actually sleep at night, think about the ones that don’t. Imagine he light click of their watch setting a never ending rhythm throughout the night, reminding them of each second that passes by. Imagine them staring at their bedroom wall, tired and lonely, just wanting to dream. And then think about them having to get up early in the morning and use up more energy that was never restored in the first place.

So next time you decide to crack open “Goodnight Moon,” don’t just think of the mouse or the little old lady whispering hush. Think about the unfortunate few, like Kellie or Kathryn, who won’t be going to sleep. Those hours of rest that they can’t get, leave their stories without a fairytale ending.

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Depression: To Medicate or Not?

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Therapy is better and safer for treating

people do suicide, which is what the FDA

depression as opposed to medication. Therapy

thinks. There was an experiment done by

is a lot more efficient and safer because

Gregory E. Simon, M.D., M.P.H., and James

medication for depression causes lots of

Savarino, Ph.D to see whether depression

unnecessary side effects and you can also fall

medication or therapy was better. According

right back into being depressed when you have

to the experiment, they found out that 1,124

been taken off your medication. In general,

people out 100,000 tried to attempt suicide

therapy helps you because it helps fix your

when put on medication and only 778 people

problems and help them vanish completely.

out of 100,000 tried to attempt suicide when

they did therapy. This is a huge difference

There are multiple sides effects

that are caused by medication. A small amount

that should be recognized.

of examples are dry mouth, blurred vision,

extreme fatigue and even suicide. Medication

are happening bec ause of the depression

takes a very long time to work, sometimes

and doesn’t allow the problems to happen

months and years. When you do therapy, you

again. According to Susan E. Erbaugh, PhD,

do not get any side effects because are not

therapy helps reduce suicide risk behaviors.

doing anything to your body physically that can

She says that even though it therapy takes

hurt you. According to psychologist Patricia

a longer amount of time, it helps improve

Farrell, when you are not careful, your doctor

symptoms. Therapy helps patients cope with

can choose the wrong medication for you

loss, stress, and other psychological issues

causing it to have a different effect on you then

better than in the past. This is better than

the right one. The wrong one can cause you to

medication because medication makes you

feel anxiety and have thoughts about hurting

seem happy, but really it’s just the medication

yourself. Patricia Farrell personally believes

in your brain making your mood seem bright.

that depression medication doesn’t pushes

Whereas therapy, helps you realize all your

Therapy fixes the problems that

problems and allows you to let them go

In a major government study, it was

causing you to really be happy.

found that 50 percent of the patients that

were on medication were immediately

Lots of people, after being taken off

medication, just fall right back into being

symptom-free. But many people fall

depressed. This is because the medication

right back into being depressed because

is more of a relief rather than a complete

they relied on the medication so much,

cure, as some people think. Medication just

so when they were taken off, they’re

lifts the dark mood that is hanging over your

brain just went back to how it always

head and makes you seem happy. There was

was instead of recovering.

a study, which Mark Hyman, MD, explains,

that people with depression were given

a risk to your mind and body that can

either a placebo (sugar pill) or the actual

affect your life forever. Therapy, on the

antidepressant. According to the study, 80

other hand, can help your mind and body

percent of the patients said that they “got

without taking any big risks. The path

better” from the “medication”. The actual

to well-being is by getting to the root to

medication does not make you feel better.

your problems and solving them.

Medication causes too big of

“

Lots of people, after being taken off medication, just fall right back into being depressed

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Altering your very thoughts

One cigarette sizzles as it is ground into the

ashtray. You tell yourself, “No more for tonight!” and walk away proudly, yet 20 minutes later you find yourself, lighter in hand, smoking the next one in the pack. It’s an endless cycle you find yourself in. Finally you pick up the number you had previously thrown in the drawer of, “never-being-looked-at-again,” for the hypnotherapist your friend recommended to you. More and more people are turning to this increasingly popular cure. Despite the misconception that hypnosis is just a scam, many doctors are using this therapy as an effective tool for helping patients with all kinds of problems, such as addictions, painful symptoms, depression and many more.

Hypnosis really works on all of these ailments because it is not just discussing problems, but reaching an altered state of consciousness where one is unusually open to suggestions provided by the hypnotherapist. According to the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, hypnosis affects “how your brain communicates with your body through nerve

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impulses, hormones and body chemicals such as neuropeptides,” and that, “hypnosis creates a state of deep relaxation and quiets the mind.”

It is not just a technique or procedure, but a science. In a session, first one is told to relax and focus the mind on the instructor. Sessions can range from 30-60 minutes and the number of sessions can range from one to several or more.

Hypnotherapy is very dependent on the person and how easily suggestions are received. It is thought that hypnosis only works on some people but this is not true. With practice, everybody can get to a fully hypnotized state.

Sticking with it is the most important thing.

Many say that hypnosis is merely the placebo effect, where we go along with whatever the authority figure suggests to us and just think that we’ve been in the trance like state of hypnosis, and affected deeply by the therapy. But hypnosis is much more than this. According to Exploring Psychology by David G. Myers, Ph.D, an experiment was done to scan the brain activity during hypnosis. The results of being asked to imagine a color were that, “areas of

their brain lit up as if they were really seeing the color. Mere imagination had becometo the hypnotized person’s brain - a compelling hallucination.” Hypnosis put thoughts that real into their minds, such as a dislike for cigarettes or a dislike for foods that worsen diabetes and etc, which is why it is so effective.

No wonder that the American Medical Association and the American Psychological Association have recognized hypnosis as a valid medical procedure.

Aside from the many factors that make it likely to work well, there are many success stories that have rid people of headaches, asthma, phobias, addictions, cancer related pains, and much more. In a personal account from Derek Palmer, a nationally certified hypnotherapist, he stated, “I had certainly tested the power of Hypnotherapy when I successfully became a non-smoker for good in 1993,” after his willpower alone failed him. Another trial done by the British Stammering Association showed huge improvements in a patient with the use of hypnotherapy. The 29 year old man had moderate to sever stuttering, and with only 12 sessions and 3 follow up sessions, major improvements were seen in his fluency. He even reported an overall feeling of improvement mental health.

This is the case with many individuals who struggle to overcome physical and mental problems.

As great philosophers have said correctly for so long, the mind and body are one. What helps the mind helps the body, and this is fundamental in hypnosis to fully cure someone. Hypnosis changes lives of people that suffer from the worst things and through this has shown what great powers it has. You can sink that last cigarette into the ashtray now.

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Nightmare on Your Street

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Dr Giuseppe Plazzi from the Department of Neurological Sciences at the University of Bologna says that waking up a person when they’re sleepwalking could cause confusion or temporary stress. But most people don’t take into account the dangers that sleepwalking can cause. Waking up the sleepwalker is better than leaving them to cause harm to them or their surroundings. That one moment of distress that everyone exaggerates so much outweighs potential danger when sleepwalking any day.

The common myth is that waking up a sleepwalker could cause a heart attack. Dr. Mark Mahowald, who is director of the Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center and professor of the University Of Minnesota Department Of Neurology, says that this statement just isn’t true. He notes, like many other sleep disorder specialists that “attempting to wake a sleepwalker will not harm the person.” Most, like Mahowald, say that the best course of action is to redirect the person back to their bed or gently wake them up. The Register magazine (which specializes in science and technology) notes, “It is no different from when a person sleeping normally is suddenly awakened by, say, a loud noise.” If there is no true harm, then stopping potential threats by simply waking them up should occur without second thought.

Sleepwalking is an invitation for self-inflicting danger. According to the American Sleep Association, sleepwalkers often do everyday activities that require full attention. This organization has heard of thousands of patients who have been through scary sleepwalking incidents such as driving for several miles at a time and also cooking. Without our five senses working and in use, activities like these will cause more danger than usual. The car could end up running over a person or crashing into another car, and one could get badly burned from the stove. Sleep specialist Carlos Schenck from the Min-

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nesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center once had a patient who tore her bedroom door off the hinges, but she didn’t have the strength to do this when awake.

Schenck says that when sleepwalking, one tends to have more strength than when conscious.

Because one has additional strength, hurting others is a plausible occurrence when sleepwalking. Antonio Culebras, a Professor of Neurology at the State University of New York College of Medicine says that “It is conceivable that the sleepwalker has the potential to drift into...a state in which violence and assault are likely.”

People all over the world commit crimes in their sleep. For example, a writer for the Sunday Times wrote about the case of a

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man named Brian Thomas who killed his wife in 2008 because he dreamt she was an intruder.

When he woke up, he found his beloved wife lying dead next to him. He immediately called the police telling them that he thought he killed his wife because he was dreaming that he was strangling a young man who had broken into their house. He was horrified with himself, crying throughout the entire phone call. This grief and unwanted murder shouldn’t happen to anybody. In this unfortunate situation there was no one to wake him up, but in a household with more family members waking up a sleepwalker could prevent a tremendous and accidental crime.

Waking up a loved one could be the best thing that you do for them. If you aren’t there to save them from the dangers of sleepwalking, you might be the one waking up with your spouse hurt or a black eye. So next time your family member is sleepwalking around the house, remember that their angry reaction to waking up is nothing compared to what could have happened.

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Pressure to the *Joe Azzato

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One dancer after another quietly creep in the dark, trying to keep their clunky Pointe shoes from making the slightest sound. One by one, the dancers emerge from behind the curtain and take their beginning position for the dance that is about to begin. The audience is waiting anxiously for lights to turn and the music to flow. The velvety red curtain opens and the music begins; the dancers, including Danielle Ricci, easily slide into their pirouettes, arabesque, and changements. The audience doesn’t know, but although a smile is plastered on each one of the dancers’ faces, there are many thoughts racing through each mind, as they work to strike each move precisely. Dancers are elegant and make dances

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look effortless but being a confident dancer takes a lot of mental preparation to be successful.

One of the dancers, Danielle Ricci, knows the thoughts that race through each dancer’s mind only too well. Danielle has had lots of experience dancing. She is the founder and artistic director of the dance company, Borealis Dance.

The company is now dancing through their second season. They are going to perform at the 2011 Frontera Short Fringe Festival at the Hyde Park Theatre. This isn’t the first time that Danielle has produced and danced in a big dance performance.

Danielle has been dancing since she was seven years old. And, she continued to dance throughout her childhood. After high school, she

went to University of California at Irvine and majored in dance. With this major, she not only became the founder of Borealis, she also became a dance instructor. But, Danielle hasn’t always been the teacher, she has been the student who must learn other’s dances. When she was twelve years old, she had a solo in a huge theatre, equivalent in size to the Long Center, here in Austin.

In her solo, she accidentally made several errors during her performance. When she finished her last move, she waited for the applause, but there none. It was crushing. “I was a little too short with myself with the choreography”, says Danielle as she glances back into her past, “you have to review it in your head before you go on and when your like 12, you just kind of go on and it’s [dance] like second nature to me because I had been doing dance for so long but it was a solo.”

Danielle was able to learn from this experience and has remembered to practice her new choreography more often, which has allowed her to be more successful and confident as a dancer.

Nowadays, Danielle always receives applause because she always gives her fullest in her dance concerts. This does not mean that she does not make mistakes, because she does, just like everybody else. Experience allows her to cover her mistakes better so most audiences don’t even realize there’s been an error. But, Danielle feels she is much better at memorizing her own dances that she choreographs herself.

On the other hand, if someone else teaches her a completely new dance it is much harder to learn it and memorize it. Danielle says, “I’m used to making stuff up and giving it to people, and when people just give me steps, it makes me have to think extra hard”. This happens to a lot of people because when a dancer memorizes

something that they thought of and taught themselves, they know the moves that they incorporate with their body so the moves feel familiar when they practice the dance. Whereas when a dancer learns a new dance from someone else’s choreography, it can be difficult because they are not completely familiar with the moves that they are learning. The plan of thought is not already imprinted in the brain making it harder to learn.

“I have to review it [the steps] every day before the show”, says Danielle when talking about learning new dance steps for her dance shows.

For Danielle and lots of other dancers, dance performances can be very stressful due to the amount of pressure that is forced onto the dancers to create perfection in each move they strike. Even though it is a lot of work, these dancers, including Danielle, are dancing for an audience and for themselves as well. Dancers expect perfection from themselves and this can be very difficult to live up to. It is important for dancers to maintain perspective and find a way to keep stress at manageable levels so dance can be enjoyable for the dancer as well as the audience. Danielle says that in order to not stress out and mess up in her show, she has to review her dance moves everyday. Danielle loves being in dance shows and being able to dance her heart out. But when she dances, she’s like every one else on stage. She glances at the others nervously and excitedly as they complete their dance that they have been practicing for weeks. The last moments of the dance are the best; the exhilarating feeling that it is over and no big mistakes were made. The applause fill her ears as she strikes the last pose; this is what she lives for.

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Big Boys Do Cry Sofia S

Depression: breaking the gender gap

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new phenomena has just recently been recognized in the psychology of having diseases. Biology isn’t the only thing that determines what diseases we get and how we cope with them. A lot of it lies in our gender.

Gender is defined as how we are expected to act because of our sex, and not the specific biological differences. For example, in the United States a gender trait of women would be that the more fragile and dainty you are, the more feminine you are. But this is different iu other places.And what psychologists are finding is that gender has created vulnerabilities for certain diseases. HIV in Africa has worse effects on women because of their lower social status. It does something to those people that makes them get the disease more easily and beaffected by it worse. Who knew that popularity could be a matter of life or death?

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Here in the U.S. this previous gender coorelation between young women and depression is changing rapidly. Many mental disorders are being found to affect men more often and more strongly than women. Conduct disorder is one of the most common disorders that young children are diagnosed with, and boys are diagnosed with it 3 times more than girls. Also in teenage years, while girls have higher rates of depression and suicidal ideas/ attempts, boys have higher rates of high risk behavior and actually commiting suicide.

More and more men are getting diagnosed with depression. This could be due to an increase in the acceptance of depression as a legitimate disease, not just a lack of masculinity. More men could be going to psychologists in the first place. In the coming years we may see the numbers between men and women even out.

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Everyone always thinks that if the student if doodling, then they’re not learning. Idly scribbling on the edges of the page is commonly frowned upon in class by the teacher. But research shows that drawing or fidgeting during a lecture actually helps one remember the information.

Psychologist Jackie Andrade from Plymouth University conducted an experiment that showed the ones who doodled could actually remember the specific information recited better. She separated 40 participants into two equal groups of 20. All 40 had participated in a previous unrelated psychology experiment (as part of a decoy) and were asked at the end if they wanted to do another research activity that would last a few minutes- they were told that they would be listening to a boring tape. The volunteers were then led to a quiet room where they listened to a fake voice message about a lady who rambled on about various specific topics. Before the tape began, only one group was told to draw boxes on their paper (any shape or size, it didn’t matter) while listening. Both groups were told to write down a list of

the guests coming to a party mentioned in the message, which meant that the doodlers would have to switch back and forth from drawing and writing. After the tape was over, everyone was asked to recite all the names from memory. The group that doodled could remember 7.5 pieces (out of 16) of the required information while the group that didn’t draw could only recall 5.8, which was 29% less than the doodlers.

It turns out that when one doodles their mind is occupied, so they don’t daydream. Daydreaming demands most of the brain’s processing power. On the other hand, doodling requires little effort, but keeps one preoccupied enough to not daydream. So next time you’re having a hard time paying attention in class, pull out a pen and start scribbling on the edges of your page. You’ll end up learning more and having nicer looking notes.

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The Tasty

Truth Morgan E

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G o ahead and feel the top of your tongue. As you can feel, there are many bumps. These bumps are called papillae. They help you as

you chew food because they grip the food and move it around. Papillae also contain taste buds, which you are born with. The taste buds on your tongue, each have microscopic hairs called microvilli. As you bite into something delicious, these microvilli in your taste buds send a message to the brain, which then interprets the signal and tells you what you just tasted.

The taste buds in your mouth aren’t the only thing that allows you to taste. Before you put something into your mouth, your nose helps you out by smelling the food first, so you have an idea of what it is.

Let’s say your mom told you that had to eat your broccoli, but that’s your least favorite food! All you have to do is suck on a piece of an ice cube and you won’t be able to taste it as strongly! Next time you eat broccoli, you can go ahead and tell your mom it tastes delicious, even though you can’t taste it!

Bitter Sour

Sour

Salty

Salty Sweet

Shown to your left, is a taste map. Taste maps were supposedly used to be able to look at and see what area of the tongue tasted what.

For example, on this taste map, it says that you taste things that are sweet on the tipofyour tongue, so if you eat a strawberry, that is where you would taste the sweetness of the strawberry.

This has been proven scientifically inaccturate because if you eat something bitter and place it on the side of your tongue, you will taste the bitterness, no matter what the food is on your tongue. Your taste buds can taste all different flavors, no matter what!

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All I do is win.