8 Weeks

I get to his office tired. My prefect dark ringlet curls dripping wet from the rain. I start to his office not paying attention to the fact that his secretary is trying to stop me. “Miss Brown,” his secretary is saying, “he is on a conference call right now. If you wait I can let him know you are here.” “I don’t have time to wait David.” “Miss Brown,” he shouts at me, but I am already at the door to Joe’s office. As I walk in, I swallow hard. “So we are going to build this building in stages,” he looks up and stops what he is saying maybe it is the fact that I am a mess or the expression on my face. “Liah, what’s wrong.” “I am, I am…” I can’t say the words. My beautiful blue eyed blonde architect boyfriend is standing, waiting for me to tell him why I had been crying and why I am scared and I can’t say anything

Kiss Me

It was the last weekend of the year and this party was in full flow. Beer pong, quarters and stupid card games were all going on in the different rooms of the house. Maia was alone wandering through the party until she see saw a girl dancing the middle of the floor. She was brunette, tall, and obviously drunk. She was dancing by herself to a Zedd song. Shaking her hips to the beat and to constant crowd encouragement. As Maia stood watching the girl she became memorized. The girl looked in her direction flashing beautiful green eyes and a cute smile. As Maia continued to watch, she noticed some guys that she recognized from a frat party say, “Kelsey is so drunk I may just have to take her home tonight.” The comment made Maia want to slap the guy, but she knew better instead she decided to help the poor girl out and joined her on the dance floor. Once the girl had realized she was there she began to move closer to Maia putting her hands on her shoulders and rubbing down her arms. The sensation caused butterflies to fill Maia’s body. At the end of the song the girl tried to grabbed Maia’s hips to pull her close but instead Maia pulled the girl from the center of the dance floor. The boys booed and tried to stop them but Maia managed to maneuver the girl out of the room into another room that she knew wouldn’t be open to guests

From My Mouth To God\u27s Ear

From my mouth to god’s ears I cry with tears Save him, save me Save us for a sad world indeed A world where a whole is spilt in halves And a child cries for his dad ~excerpt from poe

Does He Wear the Halo: Cognitive Bias When Perceiving the Personality of a Man.

The Halo Effect is a type of positive cognitive bias that occurs when interpreting an individual’s personality because we are influenced by their physical appearance and/or interpersonal attraction. Within this study, undergraduate students at a liberal arts university in Northern California ages 18-35 will be asked to look at an online survey and accompanying photograph. In the online survey participants will be randomly assign to look at a photo of a male surrounded by women who have been dressed to look as stereotypically attractive as possible or at a photo of the same man surrounded by the same women that have been dressed to look stereotypically unattractive and then complete a Big Five personality survey of the man in the photo (Goldberg, 1992). In the beginning of the survey, there will be questions to draw the participant’s attention to the women in the photo, guaranteeing that the participants notice the women in the photo rather before interpreting the personality of the man. Previous research shows the effects of physical and vocal attractiveness on impressions of politicians (Sarawski & Ossoff, 2006), where both vocal and physical attractiveness were equally important in determining an impression. Other research investigating judgments made about teachers who are being accused of criminal sexual contact with their students, when gender and attractiveness are manipulated, suggest that attractiveness-driven halo effects are not ubiquitous, but rather relate to the gender of the perpetrator and their attractiveness (Austin et al, 2013). Participants did not believe a sexual offense was committed when they were assessing whether to convict an attractive male teacher, but strongly believed that attractive female teacher should be convicted. The research in the present study is examining whether a male observer will have a significantly higher positive cognitive bias of extraversion, social success, agreeableness, and openness when perceiving another man who is surround by attractive women rather than the same man surrounded by the dowdy women, where as women will not