Comments on: Rejection, lawn chairs & insomnia (Happy Monday!)

By: Working Girl

Working Girl — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:58:30 +0000

Ha. The next morning I woke up, thought of this again, and “got it” immediately….(groan).

By: almostgotit

almostgotit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:57:41 +0000

Re the Patio furniture joke. Say it out loud to yourself..

By: Working Girl

Working Girl — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:43:46 +0000

Argh. I meant patio furniture “joke.”

Must. Get. Some. Sleep.

By: Working Girl

Working Girl — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:43:10 +0000

Okay, something must be wrong with me because I don’t get the “patio furniture” work.

Thinking about it again. Still nothing.

I think I’ll go to bed…….

By: almostgotit

almostgotit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:20:12 +0000

@David: thanks for giving us the link! I’ll stop debunking, now.

@Felicia: Oh, yes PLEASE?

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:51:26 +0000

What… not done with rejection yet? Do we have to hire you a therapist or something?

By: David B

David B — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:41:49 +0000

For anyone interested, the website of the lab (Relationships and Social Cognition Lab — RASCL) where I worked at UC Berkeley is:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rascl/

Much of the research in the lab focuses on two types of rejection sensitivity: one based on unique personal characteristics (e.g., “I’m just not a likeable person”) and the other based on membership in an out-group.

In the joke department, one of my all time favorites is:
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Control freak [then frantically butting in before they can say "control freak who?"] Now you say “control freak who?”