Session 8 saw 3200 XP total as the party toured the rogue's home town after giving his family life-changing gold, eliminating chickens turned cockatrices that petrified the druid, and received a Periapt of Wound Closure after taking the creatures' bodies to the town's bounty giver.

The frequency of sex has been declining worldwide over the past decade or so; why might people choose not to have sex (even before the pandemic)? Our new paper in the Journal of Sex Research strives to answer that question (with 50 gift links): 1/6 www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KMGBS...

The whole-universe answer for me was Bruce Banner; apparently, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry. However, this is my favorite character for my favorite universe in a three-way tie w/Geordi La Forge and Data to whole-number precision. Drs. Bashir (DS9) and The (Voyager) were my other Trek matches.

I forgot to post that in December's Session 6, the party traversed a cave under strangely spacey druids, which hosted a menagerie of iron-booted small folks and a displacer beast, whose head the rogue took as a trophy. Did the druid's grip slip on the beast's cell door?

In Session 3, the party passed by a sea hag coven to defeat the myconoid sovereign's champion. The sorcerer punched sunlit holes in the fungal canopy, the rogue kept sneak attacking from range, and the druid's wild shape webbed them stuck. The party let the sovereign live & withdraw its blightstone.

My son went into intense "doctor" mode this weekend after detecting by hand a loss grade fever I didn't realize I had. It broke the next day and wasn't covid, but the soreness and drainage remain.

Looks like the religious studies major paid off?

Eva Kimonis has proposed a comprehensive model of secondary psychopathy that includes both predisposing and protective factors to understand this manifestation of callous-unemotional traits. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In terms of normal-range personality, Malice was antagonistic, domineering, and affectively unempathetic; Coldness lacked enthusiasm about, empathy for, and engagement with others or activities; Imperviousness measured strong, confident sense of self in the social realm. (7/9)

Regarding other psychopathological features, Malice reflected antagonistic externalizing, Coldness indexed a pathologically isolated form of meanness, and Imperviousness measured a self-confident resistance to experiencing negative emotions. None predicted disinhibited EXT. (6/9)

Malice and Coldness were more strongly related to TriPM Meanness than Imperviousness. Malice was also related to a panoply of psychopathic features, Coldness to a variety of callous and unemotional traits, and Imperviousness to a bold-faced callousness. (5/9)

30 traits entered, 26 traits remained; they aggregated into three factors: Malice (aggressive, haughty, remorseless misuse of others), Coldness (unempathetic, unemotional detachment), and Imperviousness (resistance to socially mediated negative emotion). (4/9)

I'm an experimental psychopathology researcher who enjoys developing measures and tasks. My Pubmed word cloud (thanks, @morinryan.bsky.social!) shows where my lab's been; we study meanness in psychopathy and basic positive emotional processing with the postauricular reflex.

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