I'll have to read the full article, but I'm not sure of the reputation of this publication. From the site
SPPS is a unique short reports journal in social and personality psychology. Its aim is to publish cutting-edge, short reports of single studies, or very succinct reports of multiple studies, and will be geared toward a speedy review and publication process to allow groundbreaking research to be quickly available to the field. Articles should not exceed 5,000 words and may present new theory, new data, new methods, or any combination of these. Preferences will be given to articles that have theoretical and practical significance represent an advance to social psychological or personality science will be of broad interest both within and outside of social and personality psychology are written to be intelligible to a wide range of readers including science writers for the popular press --------------------------- So the goal is to get it out very fast. At least its not a play to pay journal, which many of Sage's publications are. On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How about this interpretation? Processed foods make you fat, lazy, > apathetic, and less likely to rock the boat. Organic fresh foods make you > awake and alert enough to call other people out on their bullshit. > > Oh yeah - I just ate an organic apple - so screw you all! :) > > -Cameron > > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote: > >> Well, this is just the abstract, not the whole article and the whole >> article isn't available for free, so difficult to engage the subject >> matter with any great authority. >> >> However, the abstract presents a huge number of red flags from a >> research perspective. The first sentence could reasonably be seen to >> set up a dichotomy presupposing that organic food tastes disgusting >> and therefore harshens moral judgments. The author does not quite say >> that, though, so perhaps it is just bad writing. >> >> But even getting to the supposed meat of the abstract...wtf? They set >> up three categories..organic, comfort and control. Organic food can't >> be comfort food? Holy presupposition, batman! And they have the >> people "view" the food? Not eat it? That is not only farcical, it >> completely dissociates the study from the supposed reason they did it >> in the first place, the aforementioned new studies on taste affecting >> moral judgement. >> >> Perhaps the rest of the article is better written and has some solid >> research in it, but the abstract makes me think that there is a high >> likelihood of this being a steaming pile of crap. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:351350 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
