interesting article on the issue at hand... www.y2kculture.com/features/psychology.html any comments?

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), September 26, 1999

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I'm off to read it now...

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 26, 1999.

whoops...

www.y2kculture.com/features/psychology.html

try this one

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 26, 1999.

well...the third time is a charm but I aint gonna push my luck either!! I think I'm gonna need to save it for later : )

Mike

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-- Michael Taylor (mtdesign3@aol.com), September 26, 1999.

The article is some of the most vile crap I have ever read.

-- Paul Milne (fedinfo@halifax.com), September 26, 1999.

However the cautionary at the end is startling--didn't know this piece of history. To the first part---simply put---people can have deep and resonant responces to "disapointments" in authority later in life which can also "color" their ability to process information and possible threats---there was a bomb threat in our office---the only person that left the scene was a holocost victem---very smart lady( who was later chastised for leaving) the rest of the herd waited for the authorities to act--they put out an e-mail message telling everyone to stay in the building-which they did. They did not notify the day care downstairs(a rebel line worker did)--There was No bomb---stupid stupid authority--could have been---Trust---well let me tell you nobody in our office will ever sit through another fiasco like that. The line staff first responce was to trust the garbage being put out---after it was done and the staff examined their and management's behavior they were appauled.

-- catherine plamondn (question@simplisticpsych.com), September 26, 1999.

Confused, rambling, incoherent. A rough and vague theme seems to emerge "people's psychological reaction to possible y2k threat will depend on their (childhood) experiences with their parents." This point has been made a number of times elsewhere. The article is in need of heavy re-organization, clarification, and proof-reading. Are there no editors left in this world ? Who let this confused rambling get published ?

-- ct Vronsky (vronsky@anna.com), September 26, 1999.

Very interesting article. Something for everyone.

http://www.y 2kculture.com/features/psychology.html

From the article [see story for context]:

5) Confirmation Trap: Once you've made a decision, try to find data on the opposite side. Don't just look for confirming facts.

There are far too many people on this forum (and elsewhere) who fall into this "confirmation trap". This is clearly evident as witnessed by:

1)Lack of posts here which reflect "positive" news.

2) Unwarranted personal attacks on those who attempt to argue the "opposing" point of view.

3) "Veiled" attacks on those who are known to frequent forums of the opposing point of view.

-- CD (not@here.com), September 26, 1999.

This cheap psychological head game stuff...

Ain't gonna feed the bull dog.

-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), September 26, 1999.

to cd: wow how you think we get confirmation on anything... is what the news media tells us... how they get confirmation... because is what the government spokemen tell them. Take a few psycology courses is not love on a suspention bridge is fear... just misinterpeted

-- sandy (rstyree@overland.net), September 26, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

Since when do I have to get permission from an "authority figure" to buy groceries? This is pop psychology, short on references. How were these concepts defined and measured? Ignore. See also, Social Psychology of y2k: Trying to Understand the Denial, Douglass Carmichael

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), September 27, 1999.

Furthermore... personally, I can't remember a time when my parents ever disappointed me. The worst thing I can say about them, other than that they are not preparing to my satisfaction is that they have lived their own lives in such an examplary fashion, that I can do nothing but fail by comparison. I suppose there is some chance that they failed me in some way that I have repressed. If so, then they did me a favor, didn't they?

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), September 27, 1999.