Fooling the Color Constancy

If you don't believe me, square A is the same color as square B.

For proof, the original source is at Edward H. Adelson's page on the checkershadow illusion.

Listverse - Top 10 Bizarre Mental Cases

The Five Stages of Grief, otherwise known as the Kubler-Ross Model, is based on the book On Death and Dying by Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.

Denial

  GARCIA: I get it. We're a family and it's important that families 

  talk, and holding it in will just make this sick, sad feeling of 

  awfulness more awful. Right?

  HOTCH: Internalizing does make it worse.

  GARCIA: I'll talk, but I don't want to talk about her gone. Can 

  I talk about how she made me smile?

     

Bargaining

     MORGAN: 60 seconds. If I had just gotten there 60 seconds 

     earlier, Emily might still be with us.

     HOTCH: Derek, you know you did everything you could.

     MORGAN: Yeah, yeah. I know I did everything I could. We 

     all did. I know. But, is that supposed to make me feel better?

     HOTCH: You protected each other for years. Don't expect 

     this to go away anytime soon.

     MORGAN: This what - this what - this guilt?

     HOTCH: Just because you were the last one there, doesn't 

     mean you could have affected the outcome.

Anger

      MORGAN: Angry. Yeah. Yes. Sometimes I feel like I want to 

     quit my job and spending my time chasing down that son of 

     the bitch that killed Emily. You're damn right I am angry.

     

     (later) So what do we do - we just chalk it up to fate? I can't

     blame anybody - this is the will of God? No. I do blame 

     somebody. I blame Doyle.

      REID: It's just unfair that she is gone. It's like.. if we can't keep 

     each other safe, then why are we doing any of this?

Depression

REID: Sometimes I think maybe...maybe Gideon was 

right. Maybe, it's just not worth it.

    

Acceptance

Here, Rossi does not express the same sentiments as Garcia, Reid and Morgan do.
He seems more accepting that Emily's gone. 

    ROSSI: I've always had trouble letting people in. But this is 

    different. I guess, I've come to realize that I 'm more married to 

    this team than I ever was to 3 ex-wives.

    HOTCH: It's been a hard year. We'll get through this.

    ROSSI: Yeah, we will. (Raises drink) Emily and Haley.

On the other hand, Rossi does 'bargain' in a different sense. He gets to know about Hotch's own status in dealing with the aftermath of Haley's death and becoming a single parent, offers a little of his own thoughts, before reaching an agreement with Hotch over some scotch.     

Video shown in Developmental Psychology about Mary Ainsworth experiment on separation and stranger anxiety in infants.
Around 1:50, when the mother leaves the room and the baby's probably thinking "WHERE YOU GOING - WHY YOU SHUT DOOR IN MY FACE."
When mother returns, baby's reaction is "Lols okay, I'm sorry, please don't leave me."

The infant crying as above is seen as a normal, healthy reaction and a sign that the baby is securely attached to its caretaker (the mother). However, what experimenters look out for are how the baby reacts to the stranger and its environment with and without the mother's presence, and its response when the mother returns to it. These indications show whether the infant is securely attached, anxious-avoidant or anxious-resistant.

Interesting stuff. Might be observing babies next, haha.

Something that cropped up during Psychology class, on the topic of compliance techniques. In particular, the method of 'lowballing' - getting someone to commit to some action and increasing the 'cost' before he or she can perform the behavior. The technique works because one thinks it is easier to rationalize the additional costs or feels obligated or pressured to see it through once the commitment is made. It is the exact same principle used nefariously in 'advance fee' frauds like the Nigerian Scam, or innocuously by some car dealers or in this case, in cheap flights for sale! 

You would most certainly agree, that this is mostly fecking true. And bloody hilarious.

An informative read for a casual observer:

Top 10 Mental Illnesses and their Myths

Courtesy of Listverse.

A post on the Aspergers/Autism hypothesis on Reid:
Reid & ASD


A rebuttal to that theory:
Countering the Asperger/Autism hypothesis about Reid


Unfortunately, I do not have much experience with ASD to take a stand here. It is very likely though, the writers modeled some of Reid's behavior off historical genius figures who might likely had possessed quirks that could be attributed to Aspergers or autism.  

Have done some reading on it - while some of the behavior fits, other aspects may have alternate reasonable explanations (as duly pointed out by szejo.) On the other hand, Aspergers is often categorised as a 'spectrum disorder'; not all of the characteristics of the syndrome are the same from individual to individual, and many display symptoms from aspects of the autistic spectrum.

It is just as likely though, the writers are sitting on the fence with this. Let the fans speculate.

Considering I'm currently learning a chapter on "Memory", this link was intriguing:

Photographic/Eidetic Memory | Serendip's Exchange