Andrew Newton

Eccentricity is something that should be encouraged. Odd, unconventional, unusual, even peculiar behaviour should be supported and promoted, otherwise we will put ourselves in very great danger of becoming a world of mindless drones, which let’s face it, according to David Icke, is what governments want, and he might just be right.
Eccentricity is regarded [...]

Hypnotists are very fond of reminding us that hypnotisability has nothing whatsoever to do with gullibility, and this is, in the main true. But hypnotisability has everything to do with suggestibility and whichever way you cut it, the simple truth is that some of us are simply more suggestible than others, although there are well understood psychological techniques that can quite easily make everyone equally suggestible.

Our memories are not as reliable as we would believe. New research has uncovered disturbing evidence that offers a damning indictment of a theory so flawed, it should never have been taken seriously in the first place. At long last, scientists have proved beyond any reasonable doubt that ‘Repressed Memory Syndrome’ is not only unsafe it has resulted in one of the great injustices of our time.

The Psychology of Gender: and why most of your Clients are Women. Overall, women are equally as intelligent and clever as men, but one would be a fool if one did not accept that women’s and men’s talents lay in different areas. Men are simply better at spatial reasoning tasks than women. This opinion is not just based on much [and sometimes bitter] experience with various girlfriends who seemed not to be able to plan ahead far enough to at least turn up on time (lateness is not a woman’s prerogative, it’s simply downright discourteous), but because all the studies bear out my own (and almost certainly your own) observations.

To some psychologists, Milgram’s experiments were unethical, but giving painful electric shocks to people in the name of science sounds fun – and it is.
To me, he was a genius. He proved what I already knew to be true from my schooldays, and I would sincerely enjoy the opportunity of repeating the experiments. [Actually someone did, but they repeated the experiment and used a puppy instead of an actor; again, the result was that about 70% of people gave the full dose of very painful electricity.]