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Jesse Bering is an experimental psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast. See full bio
March 28, 2008, Relationships

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Babies Don't Like Foreigners

By Jesse Bering, Ph.D. on March 28, 2008 in Quirky Little Things

I’ve lived in Northern Ireland for a few years now and I still feel like a two-dimensional cartoon character. It seems all I have to do to conjure up images in peoples’ heads of George Bush, Britney Spears, and old episodes of Friends, is to open up my mouth and say a few lines with my stereotypically flat, Midwestern accent. Read More

Great having you online.

Submitted by PV on March 30, 2008 - 7:05am.

Great having you online. Looking forward to comments on
your personal dealings with the spiritually oriented.
If we're left with no spirituality what happens to great music
taking us to higher places? (Bach, Candomblé, Van Morrison)
Do we have a substitute? There's a Positivist temple in
my city but it's mostly empty.

Accents

Submitted by Jay Dixit on April 3, 2008 - 2:51pm.
Great post. See also: http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/brainstorm/200802/the-since...

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