Website review: APA Press Release: The Anatomy of ...
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psychology, cognitive-science, sarcasm
•apa.org/releases/sarcasm.html
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CaioPereira rated 37 hours ago- Sarcasm does *not* make you fucking smarter or fucking improve your social skills.
- ConsiderThis rated 9 days ago
- What I want to say is complex. After I fell and hit my head on the brick floor (I'm six feet tall, so my head slammed down from six feet up) my face turned an ugly black and blue around my eyes, then it turned green and yellow. Several months later I was looking at my medical file and found a record of x-rays, and having no memory of them being taken I felt sure someone had put the record there for some kind of fraud. It is extremely odd not to be able to remember things, and having learned all our lives that we can believe ourselves there is a tendency to believe that things we don't remember didn't happen. For a long time I had a very hard time understanding things that were not entirely straightforward. I didn't get jokes. But the worst thing was hearing myself and it not sounding like me. I seldom sounded as if I had any feeling when I heard myself talking. The fall was in 2001. Today, 2008, I can see that there has been a lot of improvement. Why am I telling you this? because my fall was a result of loss of feeling in my extremeties. My legs used to feel like wood, it was so odd. I was told by a couple of doctors that the nerve damage was permanent. I used to try so hard to wiggle my toes... with very little success. But now there are days when my toes feel and move normally. What has made the difference is B12 injections to begin with and now Methylcobalamin lozenges. If you or someone you know is having nerve problems it could be that the problems are related to low B12 and if they replace the B12 they are missing their problems will resolve -- (If their stress levels are very high, then there is a constant drain on the B12 in their tissue.) I hope this reaches people for whom knowing this will make a difference. From the page: "Participants with prefrontal damage were impaired in comprehending sarcasm, whereas the people in the other two groups had no such problem. Within the prefrontal group, people with damage in the right ventromedial area had the most profound problems in comprehending sarcasm. The ventromedial area is the inferior (rear) part of the prefrontal cortex, and includes the cortex on top of the orbits of both eyes and the inside part of the frontal lobes."
- kevinryanmooney rated 2 weeks ago
- i was going to add a sarcastic remark, but was beaten to the punch.
- LeftCoastLibrul rated 3 weeks ago
- As it turns out, sarcasm requires a high level of complex cognitive thought. Like I needed some scientist to tell me that.
- Jackanapes rated 2 months ago
- From the page: "The ventromedial area is the inferior (rear) part of the prefrontal cortex, and includes the cortex on top of the orbits of both eyes and the inside part of the frontal lobes. " Uh.. Drooling... The back of the front is teh damaged. Clapping... Can I pet the rabbits now?
- Karolinger rated 2 months ago
- To be or not to be, that's the sarcasm.
- TwoWorlds rated 2 months ago
- I've heard of this kind of psychological apocrypha--that people with Aspergers' Syndrome are unable to mentally parse a sarcastic statement--thereby contributing to the whole "socially withdrawn and defective" stereotype. Interesting to see there's now establing academic research backing this up.
- theothr1prcent rated 2 months ago
- i absolutely love it
