Why Do Psychologists So Often Sound Nuts?
In this article about the growth of Whole Foods, there's a quote from a USC psych prof, who seems to think lunching on a bit of brie on toasted bread with a glass of Chardonnay falls just this side of eating chocolate-dipped boiled babies:
“Whole Foods offers a psychological absolution of our excesses,” says Jerald Jellison, psychology professor at University of Southern California. “After filling your cart with sinful wine, beer, cheese and breads, you rationalize it's healthy, so that cancels out the negatives.”
Quick! Somebody call an exorcist!
"...sinful wine, beer, cheese and breads"
Ha! The only sin would be if they didn't taste good.
Todd Fletcher at March 10, 2005 8:35 AM
Hi –
Another useless, fatuous psy.
"After filling your cart with sinful wine, beer,
cheese and breads, you rationalize it's healthy,
so that cancels out the negatives.”
Has this psy ever been outside the office ? Seen the world ?
Sinful France, for example ? What about Iniquitous Italy or Piacular Spain ?
This has made my day. Thanks, Amy. (wide smile)
L'Amerloque
L'Amerloque at March 10, 2005 10:24 AM
I think that the amount of delicious-looking but UNEATEN food in that photo is sinful! Why didn't you invite Lena to stop by and vacuum up the remains?
Lena at March 10, 2005 10:52 AM
And speaking of Paris (photo) have you visited Jason Stone today? Quel drame-- j'ai pleuré comme un veau...
Bev at March 10, 2005 3:02 PM
The food WAS eaten...bien sur. That was the first trip I took to Paris with my boyfriend, the first 20 minutes, right at the center of marchez et ne marchez pas (walk and don't walk)...at Les Deux Magots. I don't usually hang there, but it seemed the perfect place...and the tarte tatin...to die for. It was polished off, I promise you!
And regarding Jason, he's a friend, so I knew. Très triste, on one hand...but on the other, he's spent a considerable amount of time living in Paris...so I think there's an extremely large bright side to this...albeit a past one.
What makes me angry is that pathetic Susan Spano is paid to blog (for the LA Times) when her blog is so absent wit, intelligence, insight...in fact, this week, it was merely an ad to raise money for some photographer. She seems like a absent-minded accountant leaving Post-It notes about her life that are accidentally read by a wide audience, due to the reach of the LA Times. Jason, blogging for free, was everything she should have been, and more. I'm sad that he has to leave Paris, but selfishly sad that I won't be able to experience it through his eyes as I have so regularly this past year.
I just got Dish Network and TV5 (from France) so maybe it will help fill in the considerable blank left by his departure from Paris. And improve my rather dreadful French!
Amy Alkon at March 10, 2005 6:47 PM
After La Spano got her nose in the dog pooh she kept spreading in her blog, and after the flak she must/may have got (and not published) from French readers on her stupid comments of French people smelling bad & having bad breath, and finally that oh! unbelievable! comparison of the French to menopausing women, her postcards from Paris became totally meaningless and, in fact, rarer & rarer. Lately, some of her American readers are criticizing her for siding with the French (one compared it to "sleeping with the enemy") & are suggesting the LAT stop publicizing her column on the front page of the newspaper, while some French readers criticize her for her narrow & stereotype view of France & the French in general. She gets it from both sides. Too bad the LAT does not read blogs by people such as Jason to see where the future of their travel section may lie... I hope Jason is only taking a sabbatical leave & will come back to France having added the language to his luggage. His blog was a good sounding board for l'Amerloque who has such a knowledge of the ways of the French! Fortunately, we have the Goddess blog.
Frania W.
Frania W. at March 11, 2005 9:04 PM
"Fortunately, we have the Goddess blog."
And the woman behind it all!
Lena at March 11, 2005 9:11 PM
Awww. I blush.
Amy Alkon at March 12, 2005 1:47 AM
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