Wednesday, April 27, 2005
A black-and-white world
My psych instructor's tendency to oversimplify things has raised its ugly head again. But maybe it's just me. I am, after all, a soc major taking a psych class on individual differences; of course I disagree with many of the quasi-deterministic inferences he draws from the material. We were talking about a study that classified toddlers into three categories of personality: the anti-social kind, the abnormally introverted kind, and the well-adjusted (normal) kind, and tracked their psychological development and life events into their early 20's. At the end of the discussion, he gave us this:
The Two-Shit Model of Personality
People who internalize problems (inhibited) eat shit.
People who externalize problems (anti-social) throw shit.
I mean, are you kidding me? And what does the well-adjusted majority of the population do, organize shit into files and folders??
Unbelievable.
People who internalize problems (inhibited) eat shit.
People who externalize problems (anti-social) throw shit.
I mean, are you kidding me? And what does the well-adjusted majority of the population do, organize shit into files and folders??
Unbelievable.
