Thin Blue Mind / Smokey Heroes
Police Psychology: Can We Sense Danger?
Gary S. Aumiller Ph.D. ABPP
I was working with my daughter on a science fair project for fourth grade. She laid out five different colored pieces of paper and put a treat on each, then separately let go of our cat and dog and recorded which color they went to eat.
Human vs. Dog sight
She did that five times to see if our pets had a color preference. In doing the research for the project, we came across pictures of what a dog sees and what a cat sees. The dog, of course could only see the color green and some shades of blue, and the cat saw at night, but the pictures were very blurry. My 10-year old daughter said “wow my Fluffy and Pinwheel really can’t see me, I wonder what we can’t see.” (more…)
more then anyone in the room on the topic and when I left the room, everyone was supposedly impressed as hell. Then I came back in the room, and was told that they felt I was too obsessed with the topic and I needed to learn how to live instead of just the science. See my mom had died in my first year of graduate school, and I had finished a five-year program in 3 ½ years, and my dissertation was three times the size of most of the dissertations they had seen. The committee gave me an exercise in the book The Magic of Thinking Big and said I wasn’t finished my school until I did the exercise. I was in shock, but I went home and absorbed the book before I went to sleep (I guess I did tend to obsess) and the exercise was to make a “wish list” of the things I wanted to do in my life. My list should be 100 items long and I was to think big.
the corner of a bar with a young muscle-bound Adonis, not much older than the son she could have popped out at 22. If I could circulate a sign-up sheet for these two scenarios, it wouldn’t make it past half the room. There is something sort of fun about the midlife crisis. Why is the midlife crisis so all encompassing, and why is it so predictable?
and it seems they have clearly a dictator mindset. Many people want to believe that he is like Hitler or Mussolini and wants the end of all but straight, 
that sits poised over the nuclear codes and the buttons that will bring forth Armageddon. On the opposite end of the spectrum are those that believe Trump is some anti-political superhero destroying the all-reaching giant aliens bent on extinguishing the earth’s population by digesting their essence while flying into the major cities of the world at warps speeds, shooting anything that moves and setting all property on fire. Is he a political dragon slayer or a dictator? Maybe we need to get “Inside the Mind of Donald Trump.”
and do not tend to favor either party, although they sit with the extreme left now and most often do. They look for a peaceful demonstrations and turn it into a riot. They call themselves anarchists, and they are not so much of a group as an instant mob, just add water. One thing is for sure, they make a demonstration uncomfortable, not only for police, but for the demonstrators themselves.