Posts Tagged ‘The Animated Adventures of Ghostlightning’

Determining Decisive Contexts for Evil Behavior: an annotation of Dr. Chiba Atsuko’s experiment logs

By ghostlightning on 4 February 2009 | Anime, Art and Culture | 17 Comments

As an anime blogger I’m very much intrigued by the concept of evil. I’ve gone far and wide, to look into ethical considerations and such – but I never seem satisfied by what I find. Perhaps I really am less interested to understand, but to justify. I’m on the fence regarding whether humans are intrinsically good or evil to begin with.

Then I find more of Dr. Chiba Atsuko’s good stuff. Using similar techniques as developed and used by the noted Psychologist Philip Zimbardo, Dr. Chiba explores how evil behavior may be less a dispositional consequence, but rather a situational one.

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The Use of Power in Love Relationships: A Study of The Courtship of Irie Naoki by Aihara Kotoko Supplemented by Dream Therapy and the Use of the DC Mini Machine by Dr. Chiba Atsuko

By ghostlightning on 7 January 2009 | Anime | 8 Comments

I like Dr. Chiba Atsuki. She strikes me more of an adventurer than a laboratory researcher, the same way I see myself as more of an adventurer than an anime critic. I found this study while thinking of how I can meet Paprika in my own dreams. Sometimes, digressions lead to more interesting adventures.

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The study itself is broken into several parts. In this post, I’ll take not of the following:

1. Case notes regarding the courtship itself.
2. Theoretical framework on power dynamics in late adolescent relationships.
3. Dream Therapy and the use of the DC Mini machine.