[tips] News: Lincoln U. Ends Obesity Rule - Inside Higher Ed

2009-12-07 Thread Christopher D. Green
Following up from an earlier discussion...
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/12/07/lincoln

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RE: RE:[tips] When Metaphors Fail

2009-12-07 Thread Rick Froman
Thanks to Allen for the clarification on the Oxford situation. I am relieved 
that Oxford wouldn't trade tradition for fad (at least in this case) but Oxford 
wasn't one of the colleges listed in the original article. My point was if 
something like that could be considered at Oxford, it was clearly within the 
realm of possibility that some liberal arts college in the US could have had at 
least such an informal name change. Students unofficially change the names of 
things all the time and I can certainly imagine an admissions tour guide using 
that terminology when speaking to prospective students.

Rick

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Subject: RE:[tips] When Metaphors Fail

On 6 December 2009 Rick Froman wrote:
In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing
building names inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford
University, of all places, had done just such a thing:
 http://tinyurl.com/yg25x46

Well, not quite. Students at one of the Oxford Colleges have voted to 
rename their Junior Common Room Gryffindor in honour of the Harry 
Potter house. Not exactly a University decision, more like student 
hi-jinks. After all, how many students were going to be so stuffy as to 
oppose such a motion?

Anyway, it won't happen:

However, it is unlikely that the 550-year-old college will make the 
change as the fellows must approve it. A student also said they did not 
expect to get permission to use the name.

Laurence Mills, outgoing president of the JCR, said: 'They did 
technically vote for the name, but legally I don't think we can do it 
as I believe the name's owned by Warner Brothers. The change would also 
have to be ratified by the fellows of Magdalen College and I can't 
imagine them ever agreeing to it.'

Matthew Shribman, who voted for the change, said: 'It is a joke, but 
at the same time, the Magdalen College JCR is currently called 
Gryffindor, since the motion ran and passed fully legitimately'.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8378458.st

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
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From:   Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu
Subject:RE: When Metaphors Fail
Date:   Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:46:28 -0600
Bil Scott doubted that any college-touring high school student would 
encounter
multiple allusions to Harry Potter. I am much more credulous for the 
following
reasons:

You can confirm the Middlebury allusion easily by searching their 
website for
Quidditch. What is really sad is that there is an Intercollegiate 
Quidditch
Association: http://www.collegequidditch.com/

Doing the Harvard search: hogwarts site:harvard.edu brings up 98 hits 
including
the fact that JK Rowling spoke at their commencement. Doesn't seem like 
a
stretch that Hogwarts might come up in an Admissions pitch.

In a search to find evidence of a liberal arts college changing 
building names
inspired by Harry Potter, I found that Oxford University, of all 
places, had
done just such a thing:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/6645309/Oxford-University-changes-common-room-name-to-Harry-Potters-Gryffindor.html
 



It is not difficult to believe any other college following Oxford's 
lead.

I can easily imagine an Admissions counselor mentioning that a famous 
person
such as Emma Watson was considering attending.

The Cornell reference in the Quarterly magazine is confirmed here:
http://ezramagazine.cornell.edu/Essentials.html and the college website 
that
listed Cornell as being similar to Hogwarts at Applywise.com. Unlike 
what the
author said, it wasn't only because of its location that it was named 
one of the
top 5 most similar to Hogwarts. In addition to its location, it was 
also due to
physical appearance, residential community, academic rigor, 
extracurricular
opportunities and unique traditions. Also listed was the architecture 
and long
winters.

My conclusion is that I have no reason to douhbt this story.

Rick

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Re: [tips] Psych Testing clips

2009-12-07 Thread Maxwell Gwynn
 
How about the opening scene from the original Ghostbusters movie, where
Venkman tests two students for the effect of negative reinforcement on
ESP ability by shocking one while favoring the other (an attractive
female).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn7-JZq0Yxs 
 
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 Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu 12/4/2009 11:45:19 PM 




I was considering having a mini-film festival as the semester ends in
my Psychological Testing class. I don*t mean long films but short clips
from films that could be entertaining but also allow for some
re-capitulation of the principles discussed in the semester. Some of my
favorites are the testing of Leon from Blade Runner (you want to talk
about my mother?) and the *psychiatrist* from Miracle on 34th St. I also
once saw a short on one of the movie channels (probably TCM) called
something like *Psychometrician*. It was one of those one reel movies
that described a particular occupation. This one was particularly
intriguing because it showed the psychometrician at work giving some
hapless examinee a stress test that seemed to involve, if my memory is
correct, shooting off a starter pistol behind the man*s head. I guess
someone thought that would be an occupation someone might be interested
in. I have searched IMDb and the web and have never been able to find
it. That would be an interesting one to record if I ever see it again.
What are your favorite psych testing-related movie clips? Rick Dr. Rick
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[tips] Simulated hallucinations

2009-12-07 Thread Frantz, Sue
Hi all,

 

Here are simulated visual and auditory hallucinations produced by
Janssen Pharmaceuticals:
http://www.janssen.com/janssen/mindstorm_video.html 

 

Note that this video was apparently made for use in a workshop, thus the
reference to olfactory hallucinations and flagging a facilitator if one
is bothered by the experience.

 

Thanks to the Teaching High Psych Blog for the link:
http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/12/mindstorm-and-s
chizophrenia.html

 

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[tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread sblack
OK, here's another study I'm mulling over. Courtiol et al (2009) 
have just reported an experiment on cooperation in college 
students as a function of birth order. Their measure of 
cooperation is an objective one, taken from the results of a two-
person game. The game provides numerical values for trust and 
reciprocity, determined by how much money each player sends 
or returns to his partner. Although birth order studies are 
infested with methodological problems, this design, as far as I 
can see, successfully avoids them. 

The history of claims for birth order effects is not a happy one 
(e.g. see Judith Rich Harris' Four Essays on Birth Order 
(2004) at http://xchar.home.att.net/tna/birth-order/index.htm and 
also her more recent review in No Two Alike (2006)--the 
chapter headed 'Birth Order and Other Environmental 
Differences Within the Family).  So I paid attention when 
Courtiol et al reported positive effects of birth order on both trust 
and reciprocity.

But here's the catch. They provided a complex statistical 
analysis (to me, anyway) but their analysis depends on a 
curious grouping of birth order: first-borns comprised one group, 
and later-borns the other. But the later-born group also included 
only children (without siblings).  On logical grounds, one would 
think that only children belong in the first-born category instead. 

Their justification for doing this was inspection of the data. For 
trust:  Means of x [their monetary datum] for middleborn, 
lastborn and only children appeared much closer to each other 
than to the mean of x for firstborns (Table 2); these three 
categories were therefore pooled.  For reciprocity: Only 
children and laterborns were pooled because their average
amounts sent (y) were closer to each other than to the average
amount sent by firstborns (Table 2).

My own inspection of their data suggests that without this post-
hoc categorization, they would not have been able to report 
significant results. Is their move kosher, or do we have a case of 
data-massaging here?

_Science_ has a news item on the study at 
http://tinyurl.com/ylc4l34 
It does not mention the peculiar definition of later-borns.

Stephen

Courtiol, A. Raymond, M. and Faurie, C. (2009). Birth order 
affects behaviour in the investment game: Firstborns are less 
trustful and reciprocate less. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1405-1411.

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RE: [tips] Simulated hallucinations

2009-12-07 Thread Jim Matiya

I've used these simulations in class. I had the students wear goggles with 
blacked-out lens while listening to the video.

They are very interesting.

 

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Subject: [tips] Simulated hallucinations
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 08:01:28 -0800
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Hi all,
 
Here are simulated visual and auditory hallucinations produced by Janssen 
Pharmaceuticals: http://www.janssen.com/janssen/mindstorm_video.html 
 
Note that this video was apparently made for use in a workshop, thus the 
reference to olfactory hallucinations and flagging a facilitator if one is 
bothered by the experience.
 
Thanks to the Teaching High Psych Blog for the link: 
http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/12/mindstorm-and-schizophrenia.html
 
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Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread Don Allen
Hi Stephen-

Looks like a case of data-mining to me as well. Unless they show an apriori 
rationale for such a strange grouping then I would disregard their findings.

-Don.

- Original Message -
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 8:11 am
Subject: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) 

 OK, here's another study I'm mulling over. Courtiol et al (2009) 
 have just reported an experiment on cooperation in college 
 students as a function of birth order. Their measure of 
 cooperation is an objective one, taken from the results of a two-
 person game. The game provides numerical values for trust and 
 reciprocity, determined by how much money each player sends 
 or returns to his partner. Although birth order studies are 
 infested with methodological problems, this design, as far as I 
 can see, successfully avoids them. 
 
 The history of claims for birth order effects is not a happy one 
 (e.g. see Judith Rich Harris' Four Essays on Birth Order 
 (2004) at http://xchar.home.att.net/tna/birth-order/index.htm 
 and 
 also her more recent review in No Two Alike (2006)--the 
 chapter headed 'Birth Order and Other Environmental 
 Differences Within the Family). So I paid attention when 
 Courtiol et al reported positive effects of birth order on both 
 trust 
 and reciprocity.
 
 But here's the catch. They provided a complex statistical 
 analysis (to me, anyway) but their analysis depends on a 
 curious grouping of birth order: first-borns comprised one 
 group, 
 and later-borns the other. But the later-born group also 
 included 
 only children (without siblings). On logical grounds, one would 
 think that only children belong in the first-born category 
 instead. 
 
 Their justification for doing this was inspection of the data. 
 For 
 trust: Means of x [their monetary datum] for middleborn, 
 lastborn and only children appeared much closer to each other 
 than to the mean of x for firstborns (Table 2); these three 
 categories were therefore pooled. For reciprocity: Only 
 children and laterborns were pooled because their average
 amounts sent (y) were closer to each other than to the average
 amount sent by firstborns (Table 2).
 
 My own inspection of their data suggests that without this post-
 hoc categorization, they would not have been able to report 
 significant results. Is their move kosher, or do we have a case 
 of 
 data-massaging here?
 
 _Science_ has a news item on the study at 
 http://tinyurl.com/ylc4l34 
 It does not mention the peculiar definition of later-borns.
 
 Stephen
 
 Courtiol, A. Raymond, M. and Faurie, C. (2009). Birth order 
 affects behaviour in the investment game: Firstborns are less 
 trustful and reciprocate less. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1405-1411.
 
 -
 Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. 
 Professor of Psychology, Emeritus 
 Bishop's University 
 e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca
 2600 College St.
 Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7
 Canada
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Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread John Kulig

I distinguish between a context of discovery, where one SHOULD massage data to 
discover things (serendipity), and a context of justification (publication) in 
which we try to convince others of our conclusions. If a researcher (using more 
than just p = such and such) really believes they have found something, they 
should try to publish it. It's the responsibility of the reviewers and editors 
to judge whether the conclusions are warranted, hopefully also using more than 
p = etc. The best hedge against Type I errors is replication, and getting it 
published is a way to invite replication. So I'd say kosher .. or at least 
neutral!

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Subject: Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?






Hi Stephen- 

Looks like a case of data-mining to me as well. Unless they show an apriori 
rationale for such a strange grouping then I would disregard their findings. 

-Don. 

- Original Message - 
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca 
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 8:11 am 
Subject: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation? 
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) 

 OK, here's another study I'm mulling over. Courtiol et al (2009) 
 have just reported an experiment on cooperation in college 
 students as a function of birth order. Their measure of 
 cooperation is an objective one, taken from the results of a two- 
 person game. The game provides numerical values for trust and 
 reciprocity, determined by how much money each player sends 
 or returns to his partner. Although birth order studies are 
 infested with methodological problems, this design, as far as I 
 can see, successfully avoids them. 
 
 The history of claims for birth order effects is not a happy one 
 (e.g. see Judith Rich Harris' Four Essays on Birth Order 
 (2004) at http://xchar.home.att.net/tna/birth-order/index.htm 
 and 
 also her more recent review in No Two Alike (2006)--the 
 chapter headed 'Birth Order and Other Environmental 
 Differences Within the Family). So I paid attention when 
 Courtiol et al reported positive effects of birth order on both 
 trust 
 and reciprocity. 
 
 But here's the catch. They provided a complex statistical 
 analysis (to me, anyway) but their analysis depends on a 
 curious grouping of birth order: first-borns comprised one 
 group, 
 and later-borns the other. But the later-born group also 
 included 
 only children (without siblings). On logical grounds, one would 
 think that only children belong in the first-born category 
 instead. 
 
 Their justification for doing this was inspection of the data. 
 For 
 trust: Means of x [their monetary datum] for middleborn, 
 lastborn and only children appeared much closer to each other 
 than to the mean of x for firstborns (Table 2); these three 
 categories were therefore pooled. For reciprocity: Only 
 children and laterborns were pooled because their average 
 amounts sent (y) were closer to each other than to the average 
 amount sent by firstborns (Table 2). 
 
 My own inspection of their data suggests that without this post- 
 hoc categorization, they would not have been able to report 
 significant results. Is their move kosher, or do we have a case 
 of 
 data-massaging here? 
 
 _Science_ has a news item on the study at 
 http://tinyurl.com/ylc4l34 
 It does not mention the peculiar definition of later-borns. 
 
 Stephen 
 
 Courtiol, A. Raymond, M. and Faurie, C. (2009). Birth order 
 affects behaviour in the investment game: Firstborns are less 
 trustful and reciprocate less. Animal Behaviour, 78, 1405-1411. 
 
 - 
 Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. 
 Professor of Psychology, Emeritus 
 Bishop's University 
 e-mail: sbl...@ubishops.ca 
 2600 College St. 
 Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 
 Canada 
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RE: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Haven't read the article, but I'll hold off on kosher or neutral until I hear 
more about what the authors say about their findings.  As John notes below, 
it's crucial to distinguish exploratory from confirmatory modes of data 
analysis.  The former is perfectly acceptable in science, but needs to be 
presented explicitly as such.  If the authors say, on the basis of largely 
post-hoc analyses, that We have found evidence for birth order effects on ... 
rather than We have unearthed preliminary evidence for birth order effects 
on..., which need to be regarded tentatively pending replication, then they're 
up for justified criticism.

The article's title, which not only refers explicitly to a birth order 
finding, but uses the remarkable term affects for correlational data (were 
the editors and reviewers asleep on this one?), is not encouraging.  But I 
suppose we should first all have a closer look.Scott


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Subject: Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?


I distinguish between a context of discovery, where one SHOULD massage data to 
discover things (serendipity), and a context of justification (publication) in 
which we try to convince others of our conclusions. If a researcher (using more 
than just p = such and such) really believes they have found something, they 
should try to publish it. It's the responsibility of the reviewers and editors 
to judge whether the conclusions are warranted, hopefully also using more than 
p = etc. The best hedge against Type I errors is replication, and getting it 
published is a way to invite replication. So I'd say kosher .. or at least 
neutral!

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Professor of Psychology
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
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Subject: Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?






Hi Stephen-

Looks like a case of data-mining to me as well. Unless they show an apriori 
rationale for such a strange grouping then I would disregard their findings.

-Don.

- Original Message -
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca
Date: Monday, December 7, 2009 8:11 am
Subject: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

 OK, here's another study I'm mulling over. Courtiol et al (2009)
 have just reported an experiment on cooperation in college
 students as a function of birth order. Their measure of
 cooperation is an objective one, taken from the results of a two-
 person game. The game provides numerical values for trust and
 reciprocity, determined by how much money each player sends
 or returns to his partner. Although birth order studies are
 infested with methodological problems, this design, as far as I
 can see, successfully avoids them.

 The history of claims for birth order effects is not a happy one
 (e.g. see Judith Rich Harris' Four Essays on Birth Order
 (2004) at http://xchar.home.att.net/tna/birth-order/index.htm
 and
 also her more recent review in No Two Alike (2006)--the
 chapter headed 'Birth Order and Other Environmental
 Differences Within the Family). So I paid attention when
 Courtiol et al reported positive effects of birth order on both
 trust
 and reciprocity.

 But here's the catch. They provided a complex statistical
 analysis (to me, anyway) but their analysis depends on a
 curious grouping of birth order: first-borns comprised one
 group,
 and later-borns the other. But the later-born group also
 included
 only children (without siblings). On logical grounds, one would
 think that only children belong in the first-born category
 instead.

 Their 

Re: [tips] Birth order effects for cooperation?

2009-12-07 Thread Jim Clark
Hi

James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
 
Department of Psychology
University of Winnipeg
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CANADA


 sbl...@ubishops.ca 07-Dec-09 10:11 AM 
...
But here's the catch. They provided a complex statistical 
analysis (to me, anyway) but their analysis depends on a 
curious grouping of birth order: first-borns comprised one group, 
and later-borns the other. But the later-born group also included 
only children (without siblings).  On logical grounds, one would 
think that only children belong in the first-born category instead. 

Their justification for doing this was inspection of the data. For 
trust:  Means of x [their monetary datum] for middleborn, 
lastborn and only children appeared much closer to each other 
than to the mean of x for firstborns (Table 2); these three 
categories were therefore pooled.  For reciprocity: Only 
children and laterborns were pooled because their average
amounts sent (y) were closer to each other than to the average
amount sent by firstborns (Table 2).

My own inspection of their data suggests that without this post-
hoc categorization, they would not have been able to report 
significant results. Is their move kosher, or do we have a case of 
data-massaging here?

JC:

Stats were nonconventional (randomization tests), but looks to me like they got 
a significant effect (.042) WITHOUT the grouping (i.e., using the 4 groups 
First, Middle, Last, Only) and then grouped them to show that the significant 
variability was due to First vs Non-First (other 3 groups).

Depending on hypothesized underlying mechanism (I did not read rest of paper, 
just results), it could make sense to group Only with non-First born since, for 
example, they would have no younger siblings.  Of course that reasoning would 
not apply to middle born, who were also lumped together and actually showed 
results most different from Firstborns.

Take care
Jim


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2009-12-07 Thread taylor
Todays shirt.woot.com is einstein's brain.

NOTE: They run EXTREMELY small. I normally wear a women's medium T-shirt but 
even the womens XL is extremely tight on me.

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Re: [tips] Simulated hallucinations

2009-12-07 Thread Gerald Peterson

This is a nice effort to depict some aspects of schizophrenic experiences and 
can be easily played in class and facilitate discussion.  I have found also 
that some of the experiences of word salad, thought intrusion, and distortions 
of what people hear and see when listening or speaking can be described via 
case studies and shared personal experiences.  You can use small groups in 
class to then try to create their own simulations and describe what they are 
trying to depict.  You may even find that some students have had psychotic 
episodes, hallucinations,etc., and that they may be willing to share their own 
experiences.  Some students are also able to share their perceptions/thoughts 
regarding the use of various anti-psychotic medications. After a better 
appreciation of the experiences, we can then discuss theory or related ideas as 
to mechanisms of speech, perception, attentional control, etc., that might be 
producing such experiences. Just some thoughts,  Gary




Gerald L. (Gary) Peterson, Ph.D. 
Professor, Department of Psychology 
Saginaw Valley State University 
University Center, MI 48710 
989-964-4491 
peter...@svsu.edu 

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From: Sue Frantz sfra...@highline.edu
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu
Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 11:01:28 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: [tips] Simulated hallucinations









Hi all, 



Here are simulated visual and auditory hallucinations produced by Janssen 
Pharmaceuticals: http://www.janssen.com/janssen/mindstorm_video.html 



Note that this video was apparently made for use in a workshop, thus the 
reference to olfactory hallucinations and flagging a facilitator if one is 
bothered by the experience. 



Thanks to the Teaching High Psych Blog for the link: 
http://teachinghighschoolpsychology.blogspot.com/2009/12/mindstorm-and-schizophrenia.html
 



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[tips] A new Mozart effect...

2009-12-07 Thread Rick Froman
...on weight of pre-term infants. The abstract is here:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-0990v1?papetoc

and the pdf of the article is here:

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/peds.2009-0990v1


Rick

Dr. Rick Froman, Chair
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR  72761
rfro...@jbu.edu


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