Comments on: not your average PSY101 slide

By: melior

melior — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:58:49 +0000

I’m glad PZ linked to you! I will be coming back.

By: tom

tom — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 09:50:06 +0000

The point was to discuss how the researchers discovered a neuron that responded selectively to Halle Berry in all forms – i.e. even when dressed up as Catwoman.
It’s hard to find a less-scantily clad picture of Catwoman

By: jswolf19

jswolf19 — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:18:30 +0000

I thought the reference was to cat woman, not to Halle Berry, whom I didn’t even recognize in the picture. I didn’t see the cat woman movie, and I only remembered that Halle Berry was cat woman after looking at the previous post on Halle Berry neurons. I think she’s much more recognizable in the picture Ellen posted…

By: Ellen Spertus

Ellen Spertus — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:14:45 +0000

I understand the connection to Halle Berry, but you may be demonstrating a lack of psychological understanding if you use that slide: namely the psychology of female students, who tend to dislike the use of pictures of scantily-clad women on class slides.
Halle Berry is a talented actress who won an Oscar for her performance in Monster’s Ball (incredibly even though she wasn’t wearing PVC). How about using this photo:
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/mptv/1400/Mptv/1400/21725_0005.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Berry,%20Halle
Will you also have beefcake slides to go with the cheesecake? If not, why not?