Among my contributions are:
I have mucked around with:
I have been trying to remove "bias" from Wikipedia articles on controversies dear to me, but I recognize that what I call "bias" may merely be ideas I misunderstand. I may in some cases also fail to distinguish between personal belief and documented fact, whether through wishful thinking or sheer sloppiness. Feel free to set me straight at any time.
I respond to praise, reason, and pizza -- not necessarily in that order!!
Another way to ask questions is to put them right on this page, then put a summary in the Summary field. Within minutes usually someone will respond.
You can add a Talk page if you have a question on an article, and ask your question there. Someone will answer. You can ask on your own page (this one) if it's not related to a specific article. You can also add a /Talk page to your own personal page when conversations here get too long or annoying, or if you just don't like others adding stuff like this statement for instance. :-) --Dmerrill
Dear Mr. Poor. I've tried to contact Mr. Drye to inquire how to add a sub-section. I knew my criticisms and opines would find little harbour among the rigid formals of academia. Yet, they are important. To ask "What time is." is as paramount as knowing what water is. So, how does one create a page defining time? As for situational dynamics it is a caveat of Social Psychology that launched further studies like those of Asche, Festinger and others. Basically, we define a situation based on a complex interplay of 1) Anchors of Attitude, 2) Self Interest, 3) Social Inhibition, 4) Social interaction and 5) Situational circumstance.
Groups behave similarly. That is the beauty of situational dynamics. Take the Nazi movement of Germany. Simplistically, The German people defined their previous few decades as misery from which they were de-throned from their perch of intellectual superiority. Hitler exploited their self interest to become a super-race again. Their social inhibitions were diminshed through the use of propoganda which weakened their Anchors of attitude on human life as applied to the Jewish people. The social interaction with others helped create a majority willing to sacrifice millions for Hitler's cause.
The same thing happens when you stump your toe. Example. You stump your toe (Circumstance) after your wife is critical of some act you may have done (Social interaction) . Your blood pressure rises (Weakening your inhibitions). You decided (Self interest) that you aren't mad because of your inability to walk correctly (afterall, anyone can walk), so you re-define the situation as your wife's fault for being critical and get angry with her.
While this applies readily to aggression, it also applies to almost any human emotional response as well. It was Leon Festinger who first brought up the idea of Cognitive Dissonance. (Being uncomfortable) and how humans will do almost anything to bring balance and comfort...usually in a way that makes them or the group be seen in the most favorable light.
I really don't know what to make of this. Is there any article this belongs to? --Ed Poor