Re: [tips] Psychotherapy Can Boost Happiness More Than Money: Study - Yahoo! News

[Allen Esterson]

���Re the Boyce & Wood article "Money or mental health: the cost of 
alleviating psychological distress with monetary compensation versus 
psychological therapy" ("Health Economics, Policy and Law", November 
2009):
http://tinyurl.com/yljyl7m

I've now obtained the article. It turns out to be considerably worse 
than even I anticipated! To me it reads like an undergraduate's essay 
that would be returned by the author's professor with red markings all 
over it. To take just one of a dozen or so criticisms I could make, 
there is no evidence that they undertook any critical examination of 
the numerous articles and studies they cite. I'll leave it at that.

Of equal importance is the way that the article has been uncritically 
trumpeted on numerous medical and mental health websites. And it is 
evident that psychotherapists are going to jump at the opportunity to 
boost their profession:

"Psychotherapist and broadcaster Phillip Hodson, Fellow of the British 
Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, says

"The Beatles sang "money can't buy you love" but perhaps they should 
have penned a verse about investing in professional therapy instead.

“ 'We already knew that receiving extra income beyond about £35,000 a 
year tended not to improve happiness levels.  Clearly if you suffer 
 from clinical depression no amount of money could cheer you up.  But 
this research takes us further, suggesting that what really matters in 
life are our human connections, being able to access and use our 
emotions and getting personal recognition rather than compensation or 
bonus cheques.'”

http://tinyurl.com/ygkd86s

How has all this been achieved by someone who has not yet obtained his 
doctorate? Well, to start with, Cambridge Publications charge for 
articles to be published in their online journals. They also tell 
prospective authors: "Our constant aim is to publish papers with 
maximum speed, accuracy and efficiency…" Given the monies obtained from 
authors, and even more to the point, the $30/£20 they charged to 
download *every* article in their online journals, it would hardly be 
surprising if their peer review standards were compromised.

Boyce tells us more in an online interview for a U.S. group "Thetic":
http://tinyurl.com/yjz3c34

On being asked how did this end up getting out into the media, he 
replied:

"Well, I put pressure on myself basically, I mean to me, I mean this is 
a really important idea, it's probably one of the most important 
chapters of my thesis in terms of its ideas and actually, you know, 
this is a way that, you know you can really have a real impact. So 
since we started writing this one it has always been in the back of my 
mind that we eventually want to get this out to the media, so it's a 
case of getting the Press Release out, making sure the Press Release 
was just right, and sending that out to as many people as possible, and 
it seems to have done quite well, so people have been contacting me…"

So you pay an online journal to get a quick publication, within a 
system that must surely compromise academic standards, and then get out 
Press Releases to as many people as possible. Many of them (in fact 
every one I've seen), of course, simply post the results of the "study" 
as if the conclusions were proven.

More from Boyce in his interview:

"We're basically trying to highlight how ineffective money is in 
increasing well-being. So we're not necessarily saying psychological 
therapy is really great, which it is, but we're just trying to 
highlight that money is relatively ineffective…"

"Just to kind of get things clear. We didn't actually conduct any 
analysis in and of itself, but what we're actually doing is kind of 
bringing together very disjoint pieces of research… economists are 
quite into evaluating effects of income on well-being,  we took from 
their studies and we're basically trying to join that up with various 
psychological research, various research within law, and also medical 
research, we're kind of bringing that all together. I'm specifically 
quite unique because of my kind of very cross-disciplinary approach 
that enables me to kind of bring all this research together. I have not 
actually conducted any new analysis, but we're just drawing it all 
together."

When asked about his claim made in the article that mental health is 
deteriorating worldwide, his response was:

"In 1999 unipolar depression was estimated to be the fifth most 
burdensome disease worldwide, and the estimate is that by 2020 that's 
expected to be the secondmost."

This is the only 'evidence' provided in the article for the claim made 
therein that "Mental health is deteriorating across the world", with a 
reference to the JAMA article from which this factoid was obtained.

To be fair to Boyce and Wood, late among the flurry of assertions and 
citations they do write: "Our argument is not without its limitations." 
Too true!

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Sout

[tips] Are commercial considerations compromising academic standards in online publishing?

[Allen Esterson]

���[Was: [tips] Psychotherapy Can Boost Happiness More Than Money: Study - 
Yahoo! News]

Reference the Boyce & Wood article "Money or mental health: the cost of 
alleviating
psychological distress with monetary compensation versus psychological 
therapy" ("Health Economics, Policy and Law" [Cambridge Journals], 
November 2009)
http://tinyurl.com/yljyl7m

I've been checking up on Cambridge Journals. It's part of Cambridge 
University Press, but it looks prima facie that the Cambridge Journals 
section has lowered standards for commercial reasons. The "Cambridge 
Open Option" (see below) enables people to pay to have articles posted 
online. This means that their peer review standards are likely to be 
compromised (also by the fact they guarantee swift publication online). 
I also note that the online journal in question publishes issues 
several times a year, with some half-dozen or more articles/reviews in 
each, all being paid for by the authors (or their 
organisations/university departments), and all money for Cambridge 
Journals:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HEP
Add on the $30/£20 cost to view *each article* online, and the whole 
thing is a great money-spinner for Cambridge Journals.

This makes a mockery of academic standards, as is amply demonstrated by 
the online publication of the article in question.

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
http://www.esterson.org

References:

Cambridge Open Option

Cambridge Open Option is a scheme whereby authors, for a one off 
charge, can make their article freely available to everyone on 
publication and reflects Cambridge's commitment to further the 
dissemination of published academic information.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/stream?pageId=4088&level=2

At Cambridge Journals we provide a production service that is fast, 
responsive, effective and reliable. Our constant aim is to publish 
papers with maximum speed, accuracy and efficiency, thereby best 
serving the needs of all those who commission a production service from 
Cambridge Journals. We are acutely aware of the need to publish 
research as quickly as possible and we have streamlined our production 
processes to ensure that content reaches the research community as soon 
as possible without compromising our trademark high standards.

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/stream?pageId=3624&level=2#1


Re: [tips] Psychotherapy Can Boost Happiness More Than Money: Study - 
Yahoo! News
Allen Esterson
Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:51:54 -0800

Re the Boyce & Wood article "Money or mental health: the cost of
alleviating psychological distress with monetary compensation versus
psychological therapy" ("Health Economics, Policy and Law", November
2009):
http://tinyurl.com/yljyl7m

I've now obtained the article. It turns out to be considerably worse
than even I anticipated! To me it reads like an undergraduate's essay
that would be returned by the author's professor with red markings all
over it. To take just one of a dozen or so criticisms I could make,
there is no evidence that they undertook any critical examination of
the numerous articles and studies they cite. I'll leave it at that.

Of equal importance is the way that the article has been uncritically
trumpeted on numerous medical and mental health websites. And it is
evident that psychotherapists are going to jump at the opportunity to
boost their profession:

"Psychotherapist and broadcaster Phillip Hodson, Fellow of the British
Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, says

"The Beatles sang "money can't buy you love" but perhaps they should
have penned a verse about investing in professional therapy instead.

“ 'We already knew that receiving extra income beyond about £35,000 a
year tended not to improve happiness levels.  Clearly if you suffer
 from clinical depression no amount of money could cheer you up.  But
this research takes us further, suggesting that what really matters in
life are our human connections, being able to access and use our
emotions and getting personal recognition rather than compensation or
bonus cheques.'”

http://tinyurl.com/ygkd86s

How has all this been achieved by someone who has not yet obtained his
doctorate? Well, to start with, Cambridge Publications charge for
articles to be published in their online journals. They also tell
prospective authors: "Our constant aim is to publish papers with
maximum speed, accuracy and efficiency…" Given the monies obtained from
authors, and even more to the point, the $30/£20 they charged to
download *every* article in their online journals, it would hardly be
surprising if their peer review standards were compromised.

Boyce tells us more in an online interview for a U.S. group "Thetic":
http://tinyurl.com/yjz3c34

On being asked how did this end up getting out into the media, he
replied:

"Well, I put pressure on myself basically, I mean to me, I mean t

Re: [tips] Testing Mozart's Genius Among Other Things

[Beth Benoit]

Wonderful stuff!  Thanks, Mike.  This is a treasure.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Mike Palij  wrote:

> Did you know that this year is the 350th anniversary of the British
> Royal Society?  In celebration of the event the Society is opening
> a website that allows one to examine the documents, letters, and
> other displays/info of this scientific organization.  See:
>
> http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/
>
> The mass media has provided several accounts of what the website
> includes, such as an account by the naturalist Daines Barrington
> who tested the assertion that Wolfgang Mozart at age 8 was a
> musical genius (apparently Mozart passed the test) and the sobering
> realization that Benjamin Franklin's kite-flying during an electrical
> storm provided a profound insight to science but also disproved
> the notion that lightning was supernatural in nature.  For one
> account,  see the UK Guardian:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/30/royal-society-online-library-anniversary
> For another, see Reuters:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AT02420091130
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
>
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[tips] Fake petition?

[Helweg-Larsen, Marie]

A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The "harmful" chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I've searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
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RE:[tips] Fake petition?

[Rick Froman]

Dihydrogen Monoxide

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax

My daughter still gets a kick out of when I showed her some rusty metal and 
said: "Water did that...imagine what it could do to your insides!"

Rick

Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055
x7295
rfro...@jbu.edu
http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman

Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought 
to his steps."

From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [mailto:helw...@dickinson.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:53 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fake petition?


A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The "harmful" chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I've searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html




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RE:[tips] Fake petition?

[Bourgeois, Dr. Martin]

Hi Marie. Here's a link to snopes.com, which contains the petition:

http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp

From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fake petition?


A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I’ve searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html




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Re: [tips] Fake petition?

[Rikikoenig]

If you go to youtube and search for banning water, you will find many  
videos.  This is one of the oldest ones, with Penn and Teller:
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw) 
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/30/2009 11:55:36 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
helw...@dickinson.edu writes:



A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that  argued that we 
should stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical  was something 
innocuous (maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can  make anything 
sound harmful and of course many chemical are safe and  necessary. Does 
anyone remember this and have the survey/exercise? I’ve  searched online and in 
my own archives unsuccessfully. 
Marie 

Marie  Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of  Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office  (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 
Office  hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
_http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html_ 
(http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html) 
 


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Re: [tips] Fake petition?

[Christopher D. Green]

I thought it was Penn and Teller (or at least I heard about it from 
them) and the chemical was "hydrogen hydroxide" (water). The petition 
wasn't posted, as I recall. It was circulated in person at health fairs 
and the like.

Chris
-- 

Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada

 

416-736-2100 ex. 66164
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/

==




Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:
>
>
> A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that 
> we should stop using a harmful chemical. The "harmful" chemical was 
> something innocuous (maybe water or salt) and the point is that you 
> can make anything sound harmful and of course many chemical are safe 
> and necessary. Does anyone remember this and have the survey/exercise? 
> I've searched online and in my own archives unsuccessfully.
>
> Marie
>
>  
>
> 
> Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
> Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
> Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
> Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
>
> Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
> http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html 
> 
> 
>
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RE: [tips] Fake petition?

[Marc Carter]

I thought it was "dihydrogen oxide"?

Sounds pretty dangerous, either way.

Except when thirsty.

m


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Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
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From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:48 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Fake petition?


I thought it was Penn and Teller (or at least I heard about it from them) and 
the chemical was "hydrogen hydroxide" (water). The petition wasn't posted, as I 
recall. It was circulated in person at health fairs and the like.

Chris
--

Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada



416-736-2100 ex. 66164
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/

==



Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:

A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The "harmful" chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I've searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html




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RE: [tips] Fake petition?

[Bourgeois, Dr. Martin]

Dihydrogen monoxide in the version on snopes.com.

From: Marc Carter [marc.car...@bakeru.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:30 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Fake petition?


I thought it was "dihydrogen oxide"?

Sounds pretty dangerous, either way.

Except when thirsty.

m


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Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
College of Arts & Sciences
Baker University
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From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:48 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Fake petition?


I thought it was Penn and Teller (or at least I heard about it from them) and 
the chemical was "hydrogen hydroxide" (water). The petition wasn't posted, as I 
recall. It was circulated in person at health fairs and the like.

Chris
--

Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada



416-736-2100 ex. 66164
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/

==



Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:

A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I’ve searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html




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RE: [tips] Fake petition?

[Jim Matiya]

I think Rick is right.

 My daughter did the "experiment" for her science project, as well.

JIm

 

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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:59:23 -0600
Subject: RE:[tips] Fake petition?










Dihydrogen Monoxide
 
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax 
 
My daughter still gets a kick out of when I showed her some rusty metal and 
said: “Water did that…imagine what it could do to your insides!”
 
Rick
 

Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055
x7295
rfro...@jbu.edu 
http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman
 
Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thought 
to his steps." 
 


From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [mailto:helw...@dickinson.edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 10:53 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fake petition?
 
 
A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I’ve searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie
 

Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
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Re: [tips] Fake petition?

[Beth Benoit]

Not that Wikipedia is the final source for chemical nomenclature, but here's
what they say:

"Dihydrogen monoxide", shortened to "DHMO", is a name for
water that
is consistent with chemical nomenclature, but that is almost never used.

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bourgeois, Dr. Martin wrote:

>
> Dihydrogen monoxide in the version on snopes.com.
>  --
> *From:* Marc Carter [marc.car...@bakeru.edu]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 30, 2009 1:30 PM
>
> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> *Subject:* RE: [tips] Fake petition?
>
>
> I thought it was "dihydrogen oxide"?
>
> Sounds pretty dangerous, either way.
>
> Except when thirsty.
>
> m
>
>
> --
> Marc Carter, PhD
> Associate Professor and Chair
> Department of Psychology
> College of Arts & Sciences
> Baker University
> --
>
>
>  --
> *From:* Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
> *Sent:* Monday, November 30, 2009 11:48 AM
> *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> *Subject:* Re: [tips] Fake petition?
>
>
> I thought it was Penn and Teller (or at least I heard about it from them)
> and the chemical was "hydrogen hydroxide" (water). The petition wasn't
> posted, as I recall. It was circulated in person at health fairs and the
> like.
>
> Chris
> --
>
> Christopher D. Green
> Department of Psychology
> York University
> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
> Canada
>
>
>
> 416-736-2100 ex. 66164
> chri...@yorku.ca
> http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
>
> ==
>
> 
>
> Helweg-Larsen, Marie wrote:
>
>
>  A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we
> should stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical was something
> innocuous (maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything
> sound harmful and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does
> anyone remember this and have the survey/exercise? I’ve searched online and
> in my own archives unsuccessfully.
>
> Marie
>
>
>
> 
> Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
> Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
> Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
> Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
>
> Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
> http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html
> 
>
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RE:[tips] Fake petition?

[Jonathan Mueller]

I usually send my intro students to two websites, the DHMO site at
 
http://www.dhmo.org/
 
and a site on Brain Fingerprinting at
 
http://www.brainwavescience.com/
 
I ask them to review the research on both sites and determine if the
claims made on those sites are justified given the evidence presented.
 
Jon
 
 
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North Central College
30 N. Brainard St.
Naperville, IL 60540
voice: (630)-637-5329
fax: (630)-637-5121
jfmuel...@noctrl.edu
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu


>>> "Bourgeois, Dr. Martin"  11/30/2009 11:02 AM
>>>



Hi Marie. Here's a link to snopes.com, which contains the petition:
 
http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp
From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fake petition?





A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that
we should stop using a harmful chemical. The ���harmful��� chemical was
something innocuous (maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can
make anything sound harmful and of course many chemical are safe and
necessary. Does anyone remember this and have the survey/exercise? I���ve
searched online and in my own archives unsuccessfully.
Marie
 

Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
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Re: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

[Claudia Stanny]

Check on Endel Tulving's research.
I have a related memory of a dinner with Tulving when I was a grad student.
Tulving had been invited to campus for a colloquium and a large group had
gone to dinner. Conversation turned to flashbulb memories and Endel asked
for personal recollections. He then proceded to identify various errors in
fact in each person's recollection. For example, I recall that my middle
school provided little information during the day. We learned that Kennedy
had been killed only after returning home. I recalled the reactions of
various students when we were back in school again, which I recalled as the
next day. Tulving pointed out that Nov 22 fell on a Friday that year, so my
recollection of being in school again the following day was incorrect. An
interesting aside - I make this "loss of weekend" type of memory error
fairly frequently. :-)

Bohannon and Neisser have both examined errors in flashbulb memories,
including documentation of schematic drift in memories (collecting reports
immediately after an event and the collecting new reports weeks or months
later).

Neisser did a great analysis of John Dean's testimony to Congress (about
Watergate for those Tipsters from  younger generations), comparing details
recalled during testimony to actual conversations in transcripts of the
Nixon tapes.

Claudia Stanny

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Britt, Michael <
michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com> wrote:

>
> I thought that I heard something about there being recent research on
> flashbulb memories which indicated that people were nearly as accurate with
> these types of memories as they thought they were.  Don't remember the
> reference right now.  I'll see if I can dig it up.
>
>
>   Michael Britt
> mich...@thepsychfiles.com
> www.thepsychfiles.com
> Twitter: mbritt
>
>
>
>  On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:32 AM, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote:
>
>
> Upon hearing of president Kennedy's assassination, I had a reaction similar
> to Mike's. I was 6 years old and playing with my plastic WWII toy soldiers
> in our living room/dining room floor in Cuba. My mother was in the kitchen
> and our front door was open. Suddenly, our next door neighbor, a member of
> the CDR ("Committee for the Defense of the Revolution", a neighborhood
> spying group) barges in, all excited hollering "mataron a Kennedy, mataron a
> Kennedy!" (Kennedy has been killed). I remember my mother reacting with her
> typical surprise "N!". Like Mike I did not understand the significance
> of the event, but I guess that, based in part on the ensuing conversation
> between them and the several "Ay Dios mio" (oh my God!) uttered by my mother
> conveyed to me that the news was not good. Keep in mind that about a year
> and a half earlier the Bay of Pigs invasion had taken place and that was the
> basis for another flashbulb memory of mine. Man-o-man, it was early morning
> and we woke up to the sound of what we thought was thunder; my mother got up
> to close the windows and realized that the thunder was the sound of cannon
> fire and screamed something about being invaded. Planes had been flying
> nearby and we could hear the distant sound of machine gun strafing. We lived
> about 10 miles from a military air base.
>
>
> Of course, I have to wonder how much of the above is a mere reconstruction.
> ;-)
>
>
> Miguel
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Mike Palij" 
> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <
> tips@acsun.frostburg.edu>
> Cc: "Mike Palij" 
> Sent: Sunday, November 22, 2009 9:17:10 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?
> My own memory for when I heard about the Kennedy assasination is
> as follows:
>
> I was in the fourth grade in Catholic grade school and it was a sunny
> afternoon.  The nun who was our teacher had been called away from
> class and we fidgeted, talked to each other, and fooled around until
> she came back.  She had a very serious look on her face and she spoke
> in a low voice, almost a whisper.  She told us that the president had been
> shot.  I don't remember whether she said whether he had died or not.
> My own reaction was I didn't understand what this meant but I knew
> that it was not good.  I don't remember much else from that afternoon
> nor do I remember whether I actually saw Oswald being shot on TV
> a couple of days later.  I don't remember many details but I do remember
> the sadness and sense of loss that other displayed and which I eventually
> took on.  It would take a while for me to figure out what this all meant.
>
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Director, Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
Associate Professor, Psychology
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  

RE: RE:[tips] Fake petition?

[Helweg-Larsen, Marie]

Thank you to all who posted information about the petition. I just did it in 
class -  most of them did not know it was water but were skeptical nevertheless 
(the one sided information, the lack of statistics). I then showed them the 
Penn and Teller video.
Thanks again
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html


From: Jonathan Mueller [mailto:jfmuel...@noctrl.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:53 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE:[tips] Fake petition?


I usually send my intro students to two websites, the DHMO site at

http://www.dhmo.org/

and a site on Brain Fingerprinting at

http://www.brainwavescience.com/

I ask them to review the research on both sites and determine if the claims 
made on those sites are justified given the evidence presented.

Jon


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Professor of Psychology
North Central College
30 N. Brainard St.
Naperville, IL 60540
voice: (630)-637-5329
fax: (630)-637-5121
jfmuel...@noctrl.edu
http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu


>>> "Bourgeois, Dr. Martin"  11/30/2009 11:02 AM >>>

Hi Marie. Here's a link to snopes.com, which contains the petition:

http://www.snopes.com/science/dhmo.asp

From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu]
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Fake petition?

A couple of years ago someone posted a fake petition that argued that we should 
stop using a harmful chemical. The “harmful” chemical was something innocuous 
(maybe water or salt) and the point is that you can make anything sound harmful 
and of course many chemical are safe and necessary. Does anyone remember this 
and have the survey/exercise? I’ve searched online and in my own archives 
unsuccessfully.
Marie


Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D.
Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology
Kaufman 168, Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971
Office hours: Mon/Thur 3-4, Tues 10:30-11:30
http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html




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[tips] APA 6th Edition Pub Manual Corrections: Amazon Style

[Mike Palij]

Okay, here's my story.  When initially announced, I had requested
a copy of the 6th edition publication manual from APA which I had
anticipated making a required text for my experimental psych lab
course.  I also bought two copies from Amazon, one as a back-up
copy and one to give to my teaching assistant (who does the first
pass of grading on lab reports).  Needless to say (but I'll say it
anyway), I was feeling pretty burned when all of the errors in the first
printing came out.  But here's an interesting development.  Although
I have not heard anything from APA about replacing the copy they
sent me, I got an email today from Amazon regarding the two copies
I bought from them.  I wish APA had taken a similar approach to
all of the people who had gotten copies from them.

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu

Email from Amazon follows:

Hello from Amazon.com.

We're writing to let you know that the first printing of the "Publication 
Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition," 
which you purchased, contained a number of errors.  Books containing 
the errors are labeled "Sixth Edition, First Printing" on the copyright 
page opposite the Table of Contents.   The second printing of this 
book (you will see “Second Printing: August 2009” on the copyright 
page) has been corrected.

You can find answers to frequently asked questions about the errors 
and the corrections on the American Psychological Association’s website
 (http://apastyle.apa.org/manual/corrections-faqs.aspx)

The American Psychological Association is offering three options for 
customers who have purchased the first printing and has asked us to 
let you know about these options:

Option 1:  Download an indexed document listing the corrections. 
The American Psychological Association has compiled the corrections 
and posted them in a PDF format 
(http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-reprint-corrections-for-2e.pdf).

Option 2:  Contact the American Psychological Association for a 
printed version of the documents cut to easily fit inside your copy.  
Please contact the APA Service Center via e-mail at or...@apa.org 
to request your printed insert or call them at 800-374-2721 between 
9:00 am and 6:00 pm (EST) Monday-Friday to request your printed insert.

Option 3:  Utilize the "return and exchange" program established by 
the American Psychological Association to get a corrected copy at 
no cost to you. Please contact the APA Service Center at 800-374-2721 
between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm (EST) Monday–Friday. In order to 
receive the corrected version directly from APA, you must return your 
copy to APA no later than December 22, 2009 (postmarked by 
December 22, 2009).

We're sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for shopping at 
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