Sparks Commentary

Disclaimer: I am writing here as a philosopher and as a historian , not as a  psychologist . That is, I freely admit that I am not an “expe...

I should preface this by saying that I have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a Concentration in Marketing. I don’t ha...

"The use of language begins with imitation. The infant imitates the sounds made by its parents; the child imitates first the spoken l...

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." -  Aristotle Open-mindedness i...

This post expands upon a story from a previous blog post, linked to here .

I would wager that many a student has taken a statistics class, and been introduced to bell curves without having the slightest idea why t...

I have long been interested in personality. I read an informal book called Please Understand Me  when I was a young boy, which was a po...

One of the great surprises of my  education  was how much I liked psychology. This would have surprised me in my younger days, as I though...