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Category Archives: Pop Culture
September
30
What Does Music Have to Do with Gender, Anyway?
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
There has been a lot of debate regarding gender stereotypes in music, but is there actually any inherent quality of music that makes it gendered?
June
29
Headbang It Out
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Learn how your favorite rock and roll music could help you process emotions by understanding your brain’s basic responses
December
22
Fatal Attraction: What is Sex and Love Addiction?
posted by Donovan Cronkhite
Have you ever been in love? Has it made you do crazy things? Whether it was sending your lover bundles of flowers, stalking their social media (or stalking them in person), or boiling a rabbit in a pot of water, we’ve all been there. We know that love is enthralling. It is potent enough in […]
July
21
Media Misrepresentations of Mental Illness: Dissociative Identity Disorder
posted by Jacqueline Mosko
It’s no secret that watching movies can create lasting impressions on viewers. This is true in cases of medical dramas, where viewers are introduced to rare diseases through interactions with fictional patients seeking help. It is also true of mental health conditions – both in the cases of television and movies, it has become increasingly […]
May
16
Why Do I Care So Damn Much About Game of Thrones?
posted by Caroline Sferrazza
Spoiler Alert. Although the neuroscientific, psychological, and cinematic concepts explored in this piece are relevant to all kinds of fiction beyond Game of Thrones, this post will be examining these concepts through the lens of the global obsession surrounding the final season of Game of Thrones, which wraps up in just a few days. So […]
November
02
Fact or Fiction: False Memories from Replicants to Rituals
posted by James R. Howe VI
Mild spoilers for the film Blade Runner 2049 follow. In Blade Runner’s world, it is the year 2049, and Earth looks substantially different than in 2017. Our fair city of San Diego is a literal garbage dump, crops are unable to grow outdoors, a single corporation dominates all agriculture and industry. The skies of […]
December
29
The Language of Arrival
posted by Melissa Troyer
Lots of sci-fi movies might begin with funny-shaped vessels landing on earth, but very few of them end with a (female!) linguist helping to save humanity by learning to speak the language of their inhabitants. As an only occasional viewer of science fiction movies, I was pleasantly surprised by the limited number of explosions and […]
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