what do you think about the theory that human behavior changes durring the full moon? (i dont believe it, and as far as i can tell, there is no proof.)
Most women will naturally menstruate to the cycle of the moon as long as they don't interfere with pills etc. This could have something to do with the theory as increased hormones usually lead to some sort of mood/behaviour changes. If you are really observant you can spot a similar cycle in the male of the species, though it is far less pronounced and usually shows up as the need to shave more often, with few emotional changes, although moodiness or feeling down are more common than we think.
As every individual is unique, we are all affected different ways....in some people it is barely noticeable, with others you duck and run ;)
You will also find that left to nature a group of women who are living in a close community will find that their cycles tend to syncronise. I don't know if the same thing applies to males......
"Most women will naturally menstruate to the cycle of the moon" I am almost positive that it isn't true.
There is also no way to tell if people act more or less crazy with the moon simply because the variable, crazy, is too large. It is immeasurable, and impossible to define, therefore there is no way to check for a correlation. (We talked about this in class just the other day.) I am interested in your sociology major, because I am considering it myself. What field of work do you plan on going into?
im not sure what i want to do after graduation (ah, bad bad bad...) but i would love to work for a japanese company here in the US, or visa versa becasue i speak japanese and would love to use that skill.
though, i am thinkning about law school-- and maybe going into international patent/copywrite law, or even becoming a lobyist.
if you are interested, many soc. majors go into social work...
what do you think about the theory that human behavior changes durring the full moon? (i dont believe it, and as far as i can tell, there is no proof.)
Obviously you've never worked at a mental institution. ;)
Three of my friends worked in a home for mentally-retarded adults (and adults with varying other mental diseases). They quickly came to dread the full moon because the residents would always go NUTS-- even though they had no idea what month it was or that there was a full moon at all.
I think they are more acute to this change because they don't have the same social rules as the rest of us. I think other people change as well-- just to widely varying degrees.
ive heard this too, but there are no well-done studies that prove it.
not that it CANT be true... but it seems to me that the people who work in institutions like that, or hospitals, or police... are projecting their expectations of the full moon on the people around them.
id love to see a well done study on this, it would be facinating.
Human behavior does not change during the full moon.
They have done studies on the more specific "more babies are born on a full moon" and that isnt true.
This is a case of selective rememberance. You will be more likely to remember the weird day that you had if you can also remember that it is on a weird day (Friday the 13th, a full Moon, your Birthday, etc) That does not mean that the behavior is more weird on that day, just that you remember it.
The comment below about womens menstral cycle being linked to the moon is also incorrect. However, I read somewhere that while trying to teach women how to use birth control without knowing how to read a calendar, they synced everyone up to the moon cycles, so they would all know when to start.
Most every European culture lived by a 13 month calendar, months being marked by the completion of the moon cycle. The Gregorian calendar was one of the many inventions forced on Rome's conquered populace in an attempt to disjoint humans from their natural religion. People had to abandon their ancestory and knowledge to oblige to the whims of political authority. By and large, it has been successful.
13 is also, consequently, the number of the Goddess.
I would agree with the comment above and say that you're more likely to notice that's it a full moon when a strange event happens so that there's an explination for it.
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because you have your jacket on? or you are having to exercise harder to wade through the stuff?
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no, the air feels warmer when snow is falling. every one where i am notices it.
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cool.
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(i dont believe it, and as far as i can tell, there is no proof.)
Most women will naturally menstruate to the cycle of the moon as long as they don't interfere with pills etc. This could have something to do with the theory as increased hormones usually lead to some sort of mood/behaviour changes. If you are really observant you can spot a similar cycle in the male of the species, though it is far less pronounced and usually shows up as the need to shave more often, with few emotional changes, although moodiness or feeling down are more common than we think.
As every individual is unique, we are all affected different ways....in some people it is barely noticeable, with others you duck and run ;)
You will also find that left to nature a group of women who are living in a close community will find that their cycles tend to syncronise. I don't know if the same thing applies to males......
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I am almost positive that it isn't true.
There is also no way to tell if people act more or less crazy with the moon simply because the variable, crazy, is too large. It is immeasurable, and impossible to define, therefore there is no way to check for a correlation. (We talked about this in class just the other day.)
I am interested in your sociology major, because I am considering it myself. What field of work do you plan on going into?
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im not sure what i want to do after graduation (ah, bad bad bad...) but i would love to work for a japanese company here in the US, or visa versa becasue i speak japanese and would love to use that skill.
though, i am thinkning about law school-- and maybe going into international patent/copywrite law, or even becoming a lobyist.
if you are interested, many soc. majors go into social work...
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(i dont believe it, and as far as i can tell, there is no proof.)
Obviously you've never worked at a mental institution. ;)
Three of my friends worked in a home for mentally-retarded adults (and adults with varying other mental diseases). They quickly came to dread the full moon because the residents would always go NUTS-- even though they had no idea what month it was or that there was a full moon at all.
I think they are more acute to this change because they don't have the same social rules as the rest of us. I think other people change as well-- just to widely varying degrees.
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not that it CANT be true... but it seems to me that the people who work in institutions like that, or hospitals, or police... are projecting their expectations of the full moon on the people around them.
id love to see a well done study on this, it would be facinating.
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See whats going to happen if the current trend of ever permissive society continues?
hmmm scarey.
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They have done studies on the more specific "more babies are born on a full moon" and that isnt true.
This is a case of selective rememberance. You will be more likely to remember the weird day that you had if you can also remember that it is on a weird day (Friday the 13th, a full Moon, your Birthday, etc) That does not mean that the behavior is more weird on that day, just that you remember it.
The comment below about womens menstral cycle being linked to the moon is also incorrect. However, I read somewhere that while trying to teach women how to use birth control without knowing how to read a calendar, they synced everyone up to the moon cycles, so they would all know when to start.
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13 is also, consequently, the number of the Goddess.
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