I’m getting a little frustrated.  I see something I want to reply to and get the message “You must be logged in to leave a reply”

So I log in.  It takes me back to the main page (or worse, sometimes it takes me back to the UBC Blogs main page and I have to find my way back to this blog)

So I click on the post I want to reply to and get the message “You must be logged in to leave a reply”

You can see where this is going.   I feel like I’m in an endless loop.  Obviously I’m logged in, or I couldn’t post this rant.

So why can’t I reply to other posts?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

EDIT: Ok, now I can click on someone else’s original post and then add a reply.  The problem has been fixed, but I still get the feeling I was doing something wrong the first time.

So yeah. Testing is fun. Hooray progress and all that.

Yet another test post, but hey, I think we’re set to go!

Here’s an article relevant to evolution of aesthetics and fiction: Does Beauty Build Adapted Minds?

Hello, world!

This is just a test, not an assignment, but I thought I’d post an interesting article I found recently.  In a few weeks I’m sure we’ll be talking about Evolutionary Psychology, so for those who want to get a jump start:

Evolutionary Psychology and the Public Media: Rekindling the Romance

My favorite paragraph, which refers to a professor right here in the UBC department of psychology:

“At the most recent annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, the first plenary speaker was Joseph Henrich, who obtained his PhD with Robert Boyd and whose address was titled “Culture and the Evolution of Human Sociality.” Henrich also spoke about proximate psychological mechanisms that evolved by genetic evolution, not as adaptations to specific adaptive problems, but as adaptations that enable individuals and groups to adapt to their current environments in a rapid and open-ended fashion. For example, a “prestige bias” causes us to grant status to individuals who have something to offer and to use them as role models. A “conformity bias” causes us to copy the most common behavior in the absence of other information. “Strong reciprocity” impels us to uphold norms and punish transgressions, even at our own cost. These are the social equivalents of what B.F. Skinner called “reinforcers,” which guide open-ended individual learning. Henrich’s talk represents what I regard as the most newsworthy development in the field of evolutionary psychology writ large. The headline should read “Evolutionary Psychology Captures the Middle Ground!” There is something between the Cosmides/Tooby blueprint and the Standard Social Science Model that we are beginning to articulate, which is richly innate and richly open-ended at the same time.”

So, if memory serves, the assignment is to post something to make sure everything works?

And, having posted and checked, it seems that this is indeed the case.

And author names show up for me as well.

Okay. Author names seem to be showing up under the post title (or at least they are for me).

We should each make a test post, perhaps with corresponding tag (see right sidebar when writing a new post); afterwards, we may delete them to reduce clutter, or keep them for extra entertainment value — it’s up to you guys! ^_^

Is anyone interested in the slides from the first class, ie any particular images/references? I could repost them here if you’d like, if my computer illiteracy doesn’t block me from doing so… >_>

Do try out commenting too…

See you guys on Tue!

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