User:BM3062384

About me
My name is Bradley McAlister, a third-year student in University of Canberra's Bachelor of Science in Psychology. I am currently studying the units Motivation and Emotion, and Social Psychology.

Facts about me:

 * I am an executive in the Australian Federal Government (see Figure 1.)
 * I work full-time and study part-time. (see Figure 2.)
 * I am passionate about psychology and philosophy.
 * I am currently particularly interested in the works of Wittgenstein, John Searle, David Chalmers, Marhsall McLuhan and Vygotsky. In particular, I am interested in what they each offer in terms of epistemic, linguistic and phenomenological musings on consciousness.

My hobbies are:

 * Gaming
 * Reading
 * Contemplation and perambulation

My favourite books are (in no specific order):

 * Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
 * Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
 * Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
 * Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick
 * Paradise Lost by John Milton
 * The works of Shakespeare - in particular, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus and of course, Romeo and Juliet.

My favourite films are (in no specific order):

 * There will be Blood - Paul Thomas Anderson
 * No Country for Old Men - Coen brothers
 * Phantom Thread - Paul Thomas Anderson
 * Gladiator - Ridley Scott
 * The Empire Strikes Back - George Lucas

Book chapter I'm working on
I am currently working on the chapter Sadism and motivation - What motivates sadism and what can be done about it? I would be most grateful for any social contributions you have to offer.

Social contributions

 * 1) Added a fellow student's user name against their topic to assist them, whilst getting them up to speed on how to edit the wiki
 * 2) Proofreading / editing: changed "illicit" to elicit
 * 3) Wiki formatting: Changed formatting of guidance text from subheading to paragraph, to restore proper table of contents formatting
 * 4) Wiki formatting: User appeared to have inadvertently entered "subst:ME/BCS" text twice, duplicating all headings post overview, and with duplicative TOC - amended to remove duplication.
 * 5) Discussion input: left a discussion point to a fellow dark tetrad chapter author, proposing a useful article - also formatted discussion page to have a discussion area post the Initial suggestions heading.
 * 6) UC Learn discussion reply, and completion of survey on bedtime procrastination to assist student peer in their research and chapter development.
 * 7) Proofreading / editing: changed wording in the Topic development - Guidelines HD - High Distinction section to correct a repetition error ("providing provided" to "comment provided")
 * 8) Replied to helpful discussion input from Jtneill
 * 9) Removed spurious dot points between sections
 * 10) Amended headings to reflect appropriate sentence casing in both body and TOC
 * 11) Removed spurious tip formatting between sections, moved case study to top of overview.
 * 12) Added Figure 1. to sit within the relevant text box, instead of sitting outside and underneath.
 * 13) Removed incorrectly used contractive apostrophe.
 * 14) Amended headings to reflect appropriate sentence casing, removed multiple incorrectly used contractive apostrophes
 * 15) Amended placemeing of Figure 1. to better format overview section.
 * 16) Amended headings for appropriate sentence casing, applied hyphen to relevant terms (self-determination theory etc) - extensive
 * 17) Amended headings for appropriate sentence casing, removed duplicate paragraph of text.
 * 18) Amended formatting of quiz heading to remove it from the TOC
 * 19) Amended Figure 1. placement for better fit and formatting.
 * 20) Amended formatting of quiz title to remove it from TOC, deleted preceding reference to insert a quiz.