'Compliance,' A Low Budget Indie, Might Be The Most Disturbing Movie Ever Made. NEW YORK -- Halfway through a special screening of "Compliance," the deeply unsettling new film from writer/director Craig Zobel, a woman stood up, yelled out, "Give me a f*cking break," and walked out of the theater. As the film progressed, other women joined her. At least eight by one count, although in the question-and-answer session following the film, someone suggested that actually 10 had left during the screening. "Compliance," shown on Tuesday night at a special screening and panel put together by Psychology Today, is not a Holocaust drama or a gory war film or a Lars Von Trier genital mutilation-fest.
It is a psychological thriller grounded in an almost documentary level of reality and will probably hold up as one of the most well-paced, brilliantly acted films of the year. It was also, without a doubt, the most uncomfortable film experience of my life. The film is based on one such event, which occurred at a McDonald's in Mount Washington, Ky., in 2004. Loading Slideshow. Movie Review - Chilling Realities, Beggaring Belief In 'Compliance' Hide captionFast-food employee Becky (Dreama Walker) finds herself the victim of a cruel "prank call" scam in Compliance. Magnolia Pictures Compliance Director: Craig Zobel Genre: Drama Running Time: 90 minutes Rated R for language and sexual content/nudity With: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy The words "inspired by true events" are the first things to appear on screen in Compliance, Craig Zobel's queasy thriller of discomfort. The facts of the situation as I thought I understood them seemed harrowing enough: As it plays out in the movie, Sandra (Ann Dowd), the manager of an Ohio "Chickwich" fast-food joint, receives a call from a man (Pat Healy) falsely claiming to be a police detective; he accuses a cashier, Becky (Dreama Walker), of stealing money from a customer.
That not only Sandra but multiple employees of the store went along with this hoax is jarring enough. Hide captionAnn Dowd plays Sandra, manager of an Ohio "Chickwich" franchise. Creativity is a social process. The discussion of creativity as a social process rather than an individual one applies across the board, says anthropologist Kasper Tang Vangkilde. (Photo: Colourbox) To most people, creativity is inextricably associated with individuals who stand out as something special, thanks to their creativity, But according to anthropologist Kasper Tang Vangkilde, creativity is not an individual trait. Rather, it’s a social process that occurs among individuals. This hypothesis is presented in his PhD thesis ‘Branding Hugo Boss’ in which he examines how the creative process unfolds in one of the strongholds of creativity – the fashion house. “There is a romantic conception about the creative individual – for instance the notion of the designer as a genius,” says Vangkilde.
“This project, along with many other anthropological projects, represents a break with this idea because it illustrates that many different players are involved in the creative process. " Zooming in on the process behind the product. Cavity Waves: Displaced-Water "Pineapple" Wins Fluid Dynamics Competition: Scientific American Gallery. When a rock, an Olympic diver or any other object hits the water, an air cavity forms behind it. Fluid dynamicists study the shapes of these cavities and how they change and close over time. When a disk with 20 petals was pulled through a tank of water, it created the cavity shown in this striking set of images. The disk moved at a constant speed of one meter per second. The air cavity pinched off just 200 milliseconds after the disk entered the water, a little before picture (e) in the diagram. In order to study cavities created this way, researchers record video at 10,000 frames per second and analyze it frame by frame.
Oscar Enriquez of the Physics of Fluids group at the University of Twente in the Netherlands studied the pineapple-shaped cavity for his master's thesis project. He and his collaborators, Ivo Peters, Stephan Gekle, Laura Schmidt, Devaraj van der Meer and Detlef Lohse then entered these images into the Gallery of Fluid Motion competition in 2010. —Evelyn Lamb. Dr. Karl Jansen. Back to NDE Page Dr. Karl L. R. Jansen, MD, PhD, MRCPsych. About the Author Dr. He would like to receive correspondence concening the subject of this paper. Dr. Abstract Near-death experiences (NDE's) can be reproduced by ketamine via blockade of receptors in the brain (the N-methyl-D-aspartate, NMDA receptors) for the neurotransmitter glutamate. Introduction The near-death experience (NDE) is a phenomenon of considerable importance to medicine, neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, philosophy and religon (Stevenson and Greyson, 1979; Greyson and Stevenson, 1980; Ring, 1980; Sabom, 1982; Jansen, 1989a,b, 1990b).
There is overwhelming evidence that 'mind' results from neuronal activity. Characteristic Features of the Near-Death Experience There is no internationally determined and agreed set of criteria which define the NDE, no list of 'research diagnostic criteria' similar to those provided by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for psychiatric disorders. Ketamine and Phencyclidine 1. Your DNA loves horror movies. In The Exorcist, a little girl is possessed by a demon. Although the film takes place in Western culture, even a naked rainforest Indian would be scared by the scenes with the creepy, possessed girl with the yellow cat eyes. Our DNA contains a mechanism that makes us fear rottenness and predators, says Danish researcher. The little girl sits in bed looking like a dissolved corpse. She scowls at the priest with her yellow eyes. ”Your mother's in here with us, Karras. Suddenly she opens her mouth and a thick squirt of green slime hits the priest’s face.
As you may have guessed by now, this is a famous scene from the classic horror movie The Exorcist. It may seem a bit odd that something this horrible and disgusting can achieve the popularity that it has. “They had to train their reactions to stressful situations, and the desire to do so became stored in their DNA – which we still carry today.
Evolution taught us to fear zombies Horror teaches us to deal with our fears Mathias Clasen. Faking insanity: Forensic psychologists detect signs of malingering. Illustration by Mark Alan Stamaty. When someone commits a horrific, inexplicable crime, we naturally wonder whether he’s mentally ill: Who but a crazy person could do such a thing? But when a killer acts crazy after his arrest, we also might wonder whether he’s preparing for his trial. That’s the speculation around Colorado shooter James Holmes, whose psychiatric treatment and bizarre behavior in court and prison make people wonder whether he’s truly insane or building a case for an insanity defense. It leads to the question: Can a criminal get away with faking insanity?
Experts have been debating that question since the creation of the insanity defense in the mid-19th century. To avoid the noose or the guillotine, criminals of the era would fake symptoms from the then-emerging field of psychology. Today, less than 1 percent of felony defendants raise an insanity defense, and a tiny fraction of those succeed. The first step is to do a thorough review of the suspect’s history.
Evolutionary psychology. Evolutionary psychology (EP) is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations – that is, the functional products of natural selection or sexual selection. Adaptationist thinking about physiological mechanisms, such as the heart, lungs, and immune system, is common in evolutionary biology. Some evolutionary psychologists apply the same thinking to psychology, arguing that the mind has a modular structure similar to that of the body, with different modular adaptations serving different functions.
Evolutionary psychologists argue that much of human behavior is the output of psychological adaptations that evolved to solve recurrent problems in human ancestral environments.[1] The adaptationist approach is steadily increasing as an influence in the general field of psychology.[2][3] Scope[edit] Pygmalion effect. A corollary of the Pygmalion effect is the golem effect, in which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance.[1] The Pygmalion effect and the golem effect are forms of self-fulfilling prophecy. People will take the belief they have of themselves (negative in this case) and attribute traits of the belief with themselves and their work. This will lead them to perform closer to these expectations that they set for themselves.
Within sociology, the effect is often cited with regard to education and social class. Studies of the Pygmalion effect are difficult to conduct. Rosenthal–Jacobson study[edit] The purpose of the experiment was to support the hypothesis that reality can be influenced by the expectations of others. All students in a single California elementary school were given a disguised IQ test at the beginning of the study. A major limitation of this experiment was its inability to be replicated well.
Students' views of teachers[edit] Applications to racism[edit] Disinformation: Everything You Know Is Wrong. The facts of painless people. Ngenital analgesia: The agony of feeling no pain. 16 July 2012Last updated at 20:11 ET Steven (right) with his brother Chris in 1983 Steven Pete and his brother were born with the rare genetic disorder congenital analgesia. They grew up - in Washington state, US - with a sense of touch but, as he explains in his own words, without ever feeling pain.
It first became apparent to my parents that something was wrong when I was four or five months old. I began chewing on my tongue while teething. At first they put a cigarette lighter underneath my foot and waited for my skin to blister. By which point, I had chewed off about a quarter of my tongue through teething. Continue reading the main story What is congenital analgesia? We grew up on a farm. So during my early childhood I was absent from school a lot due to injury and illness. There was one time, at the roller-skating rink. When I was five or six years old, I was taken away from my home by child protective services. Steven Pete in hospital, aged five I had to go to work the next day. Lightning & Disease: A Primitive Thought System Overturned.
For most of human history, life has been a struggle – a struggle against predators, against disease, against natural disasters, and against our fellow human beings as we find ourselves all thrown together on a single planet, vying for limited resources. In the words of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, life for the many has been “nasty, brutish, and short.” Foremost among our ongoing challenges, however, and rising above all the others, is the struggle against our own ignorance. Like newborn infants, naked and helpless, humans have been thrust into this world without the benefit of any instruction book to show us the way.
It is only through patience and ingenuity (and a fair amount of dumb luck) that we have managed to rise above our brute animal nature to occasionally achieve something resembling peace and civility. The near-universality of this sentiment is striking. Here then is a plain and intelligible account of the fiery thunderbolt and how it does what it does. Scientists capture the shadow cast by a single atom. A team of researchers at Griffith University has managed to stretch the capabilities of microscopy to its ultimate limit. Culminating a five-years effort, the scientists have obtained a digital image of the shadow cast by a single atom, in a development that might soon lead to important advances in scientific observations ranging from the very big to the very small. Holding an atom in place long enough to take its picture has been within our technological grasp for some time.
This is done by isolating the atom inside a chamber and holding it still through electrical forces, a method known as a radiofrequency Paul Trap (named after Wolfgang Paul, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for this work). The researchers trapped single ytterbium ions using this technique and exposed them to a very specific frequency of laser light. Under this light, the atom's shadow was cast onto a detector and then captured by a digital camera. Intricate, often invisible land-sea ecological chains of life threatened with extinction around the world. Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented. But that's exactly what they and a team of researchers -- all current or former Stanford students and faculty -- did in a new study published in Scientific Reports.
Their findings shed light on how human disturbance of the natural world may lead to widespread, yet largely invisible, disruptions of ecological interaction chains. This, in turn, highlights the need to build non-traditional alliances -- among marine biologists and foresters, for example -- to address whole ecosystems across political boundaries. This past fall, McCauley, a graduate student, and DeSalles, an undergraduate, were in remote Palmyra Atoll in the Pacific tracking manta rays' movements for a predator-prey interaction study. Palmyra is a unique spot on Earth where scientists can compare largely intact ecosystems within shouting distance of recently disturbed habitats.
Free Scientific Books | Sciyo.com. Lone wolves are overrated. Wolves are highly competent – relatively more so than the criminals we often refer to as lone wolves. Psychologist Knut Sturidsson thinks the term is inappropriate for the human oddballs who commit atrocities. (Photo: Colourbox) This week the Swede Peter Mangs was charged with the murder of three people and the attempted murder of a dozen others in Malmö. Mangs and the Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and lots of other extreme and violent criminals are often called lone wolves by the media, law enforcers and researchers.
What does that actually mean? According to psychologist Knut Sturidsson of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the image of a single wolf on the prowl misses the mark: “I don’t think the concept really covers the essential character of these criminals,” he says. “The term lone wolf gives associations of a fairly competent criminal, one with authority, prowess and knowledge. Lone wolf − or stray mutt?
Don’t jump to conclusions about insanity Knut Sturidsson. Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath? Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York Times Michael, a 9-year-old whose periodic rages alternate with moments of chilly detachment, with his mother, Anne. Elinor Carucci/Redux, for The New York Times Michael, left, with his mother, father and brothers, Jake, 2, and Allan, 6. Michael’s problems started, according to his mother, around age 3, shortly after his brother Allan was born. When Anne and Miguel first took Michael to see a therapist, he was given a diagnosis of “firstborn syndrome”: acting out because he resented his new sibling.
By the time he turned 5, Michael had developed an uncanny ability to switch from full-blown anger to moments of pure rationality or calculated charm — a facility that Anne describes as deeply unsettling. Anne and Miguel live in a small coastal town south of Miami, the kind of place where children ride their bikes on well-maintained cul-de-sacs. “We have bookshelves full of these books — ‘The Defiant Child’, ‘The Explosive Child,’ ” she told me.