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Johnny’s Just Different, He’s Not Delusional

I know somebody posted about Marjorie Taylor not too long ago, but I’m quite frankly too lazy to look it up. However, there is this darling ODE story about her work today.

In the interest of full disclosure, I had a class from Professor Taylor my freshman year at the university. I found her to be an obnoxious, terrible instructor with little to no interest in her students. I also got the impression that her entire goal in life was to disprove every aspect of developmental psychology ever invented by a man [especially Piaget, boy did she ever hate Piaget].

This recent work mainly gives me the impression that she’s just making shit up:

In an article published in 2003 in Imagination Cognition and Personality in conjunction with University associate professor of psychology Sara D. Hodges and former University master’s student Adele Kohanyi, Taylor described a phenomenon called the illusion of independent agency.

And, of course, Taylor has a very noble goal in mind:

Ultimately, Taylor said she hopes her work will contribute to a greater understanding of the human mind.

“I’m trying to understand the human mind and I think imagination is a very important part of it,” she said.

Way to be specific there, Marge.

UPDATE: It was Melissa who posted about good ol’ Marge Taylor

  1. Timothy says:

    I do so hope you are being sarcastic, sir.

  2. Casey says:

    Bob Dylan has a version of “All Along the Watchtower?” Since when?

  3. Olly says:

    It gets even better/worse.

    Read this, scroll up, and wince.

  4. Melissa says:

    Cecil, again! She uses that damn dragon drawing in every article. Sorry, ODE. I’m so sorry that it’s come down to Marge Taylor and Cecil, the Imaginary Dragon Friend.

  5. Bret says:

    Also on the ODE’s list of ways to improve: have the headline writers learn the difference between “State senators” and “State’s senators.”

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