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[forensic]

This hobby of yours - emulating the lives of other people through the medium of the internet. It's fascinating, from an anthropological perspective, to see the construction of communities and social groups that arise from a subjective evaluation of one's ability to accurately portray another person.

As tempting as it is, I'm going to have to say no. There's work to be done at the Jeffersonian, and frankly, if you've been watching me as closely as you say, then you know my feelings on psychology.

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cracks knuckles. let's do this shit.

[rationale]

( there was supposed to be a lot of introspection on the whole fascination of speaking to one of her peers, but let's just eradicate that. )

Do you mind clarifying what feelings those happen to be? ( because while scully isn't opposed to psychology in the slightest, having worked with mulder long enough to know that the man's assessment he tended to be focused, was that he could easily read and study behavior, pinpointing little nuances that she would have missed, being such a logical person herself. )

whyyyy do we play geniuses

[forensic]

Generally negative.

( booth does the same thing - picking up on cues, hypothesizing on the motives of suspects - sometimes he's right and sometimes he isn't. she has to admit, though, that he's got an inexact aptitude for it, even if she prefers the concreteness of hard evidence. )

It's rational to...eschew findings based solely on conjecture.

because we're crazy enough to do so

[rationale]

( she makes a small noise of discontent, but it's not there to argue with bones, but rather something to tuck away. there's been a lot of sentiments against the field, and as a scientist herself, scully can sympathize with ease. not to mention, mulder and his obsession with the paranormal had been a perfect example of supporting bones' statement entirely. )

I'm not inclined to disagree, ( scully says, smiling softly at the recognition of bones being a kindred species; her tone, her mannerisms and choice of words, all spoke to the fact that scully was finally in her element. ) though I'd argue that psychology has its benefits more often than not. Handling suspects for example is when it becomes much more prevalent.

( and less inclined to make her look like a laughing stock when mulder pulls out the occult card. )

/fistbump

[forensic]

( it's the same with booth and his religious beliefs, which to bones is indistinguishable from an obsession with the paranormal. though, she's learned not to say such things to his face because that tends to upset him. )

It's used to predict what a suspect might do next, his or her thoughts or motives. But it's useless without hard scientific evidence. Without that, it's just...murky guesswork. Unfounded hypotheses, at best.

Yeaaaaaaaaah

[rationale]

( she'd get along just fine with booth to an extent, though scully has a feeling that if he met mulder, things would be a little different. it's his unconditional faith in religion that she'd find easy to speak about, but it's her own wavering faith that she wouldn't find easy. )

But it seems to work, doesn't it? One could argue the conditions for interrogation tend to be ideal for exacerbating that sort of behavior.

( or in laymen's terms, just being in a place where the guilty go punished is likely to bring about such a confession, particularly when a suspect is ganged up on. the benefits of living in the 21st century, when shows like law and order provide a stereotypical representation of how the police tend to work. )

[forensic]

There are people, like my partner, who are able to read...viable indicators of human behaviour. Flushed cheeks, tense muscles, body language. I accept that. The rest of it - the 'gut feelings', the 'intuition' I find to be as irrational as...well, belief in an all-powerful deity.

( there's an objective quality to what booth does, at times. the things he does in the interrogation room. but when she sees him going entirely off of his intuition without the benefits of evidence to back him up, that's when the dead ends pile up. )

[cakeorpickle]

It is also a study in popular culture. I do not understand half of the references both here and in my own writer's head. This would be better suited for Dr. Hodgins.

[forensic]

I would imagine that Booth would have no problems assimilating within a culture like this.

[cakeorpickle]

He seems more adjusted in society, as opposed to sitting in front of a computer. Though as I understand it there is a 'fandom', the community that surrounds a famous or celebrated thing, for everyone as it is multifaceted.