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For Australian LJers: Please participate in my two honours students' studies
Study 1: Attributions of Responsibility for Ambiguous Negative Events
Have you ever wondered how you attribute responsibility to others? How do you decide to blame certain people for certain negative events? What are your criteria for deeming someone more responsible than others in different situations? And why do you have those criteria?
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I'm going to be in the UK from 8 June to 19 July
Well, with a week or so in Finland and somewhere else in Europe! Will be attending Conrunner in Wolverhampton over my birthday weekend (28-29 June), so may catch up with some of you then.
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Survey on snacking at the movies (Victorians only - sorry!)
Just as a change from Harry Potter, hope those of you living in Victoria (Australia - sorry, Canadians!) could help my graduate diploma supervisees out, and participate in their online survey...
Go to the movies regularly but hate the unhealthy food available there? Or do you love it? Why not tell us what what you think!
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Still more HP stuff (yes, I'm dull)
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Like others, I'm disappointed about the way Slytherin is seen as pretty fundamentally evil within the book - none of the Slytherins except Slughorn stay to fight against the Death Eaters - and they are still unintegrated 19 years later, if Ron's comments, and those of Harry's kids, are typical. Harry is the only one who expresses an ( Read more... ) -
Finished HP & the DH a couple of hours ago...
Am feeling a great sense of anticlimax, probably because I read some spoilers a couple of days ago.
Much of it was very inevitable, really - Jo set things up in such a way in the preceding 6 books that I'd predicted many of them. The surprises:
- the hallows subplot - I thought the hallows would be the horcruxes
- Ron walking out on Harry & ( Read more... ) -
New seven world wonders announced
They're not really surprising - the Great Wall of China, Petra, Brazil's Statue of Christ Redeemer, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza in Mexico, the Colosseum in Rome and India's Taj Mahal - though only 3 were in my final list (the Great Wall, Petra, & the Colosseum). See the n7w site for photos. Critics say the list is very ( Read more... ) -
I'm 40 tomorrow, bah humbug
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Not much time left to do it, but vote in GUFF
Details are here. Not sure if I've met the two Swedish candidates, but the ones in the UK are both well worth voting for, though Steve Davies has already been to Oz a few times. Yes, I know that officially that shouldn't factor into fan fund voting any longer, but it makes a difference to me.
