[tips] learning styles

[Lilienfeld, Scott O]

Hi All: FYI regarding a topic that periodically surfaces on this 
listservScott

http://chronicle.com/article/Matching-Teaching-Style-to/49497/



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his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his 
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his love and his intellectual passions.  He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him - he is always doing both.

- Zen Buddhist text
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[tips] more pseudoscience?

[Bourgeois, Dr. Martin]

Well, my administration is at it again. Just got this announcement, and on a 
quick search, I found no evidence that this therapy is empirically supported. 
Anyone know anything about reality therapy?


Dr. Robert Wubbolding is well known in the mental health field and academic 
world as a Reality Therapy expert. If you are fond of another theory or 
technique this is still “a do not miss workshop.”  Dr. Wubbolding presents a 
Reality Therapy Approach to helping clients and students "get real".  Dr. 
Wubbolding presents a lively, witty, fast moving practical interactive all–day 
workshop offering proven techniques and skills that will enhance professional 
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[tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Britt, Michael]

I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's  
recent article, "Finding Little Albert" which recently appeared in the  
American Psychologist and I asked Dr. Beck who is responsible  
inserting the word "Little" in front of  "Albert".  His research  
didn't turn up an answer to this question.  Anyone have any ideas on  
where the "Little" came from?


Michael

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RE: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Lilienfeld, Scott O]

Michael - I'll leave that interesting question to the historians on this 
listserv, but I'll advance one hypothesis (maybe others can confirm or refute): 
Perhaps Watson was trying to counterpose his case against Freud's Little Hans 
case of a phobia supposedly acquired through psychoanalytic mechanisms.  
...Scott


Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences 
(PAIS)
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slil...@emory.edu
(404) 727-1125

Psychology Today Blog: 
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html

Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/

The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and 
his play,
his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his 
recreation,
his love and his intellectual passions.  He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him - he is always doing both.

- Zen Buddhist text
  (slightly modified)




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Subject: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's
recent article, "Finding Little Albert" which recently appeared in the
American Psychologist and I asked Dr. Beck who is responsible
inserting the word "Little" in front of  "Albert".  His research
didn't turn up an answer to this question.  Anyone have any ideas on
where the "Little" came from?

Michael

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RE: [tips] more pseudoscience?

[Jim Matiya]

Marty,

He is associated with Wm Glasser. Go to 
http://www.wglasser.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=64  
for a condensation of work, such as "The Ten Axioms of Choice Theory" which 
contains this gem, "All Total Behavior is designated by verbs and named by the 
part that is the most recognizable."

 

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> From: mbour...@fgcu.edu
> To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu
> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:51:49 -0500
> Subject: [tips] more pseudoscience?
> 
> Well, my administration is at it again. Just got this announcement, and on a 
> quick search, I found no evidence that this therapy is empirically supported. 
> Anyone know anything about reality therapy?
> 
> 
> Dr. Robert Wubbolding is well known in the mental health field and academic 
> world as a Reality Therapy expert. If you are fond of another theory or 
> technique this is still “a do not miss workshop.” Dr. Wubbolding presents a 
> Reality Therapy Approach to helping clients and students "get real". Dr. 
> Wubbolding presents a lively, witty, fast moving practical interactive 
> all–day workshop offering proven techniques and skills that will enhance 
> professional practice. 
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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Beth Benoit]

It was interesting - and sad - reading the information about the child
(actually named Douglas Merritte).  I always thought his head seemed quite
large for his body, and sure enough, it's reported that he died of
hydrocephalus when he was about 5.

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:

> Michael - I'll leave that interesting question to the historians on this
> listserv, but I'll advance one hypothesis (maybe others can confirm or
> refute): Perhaps Watson was trying to counterpose his case against Freud's
> Little Hans case of a phobia supposedly acquired through psychoanalytic
> mechanisms.  ...Scott
>
>
> Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
> Professor
> Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
> Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary
> Sciences (PAIS)
> Emory University
> 36 Eagle Row
> Atlanta, Georgia 30322
> slil...@emory.edu
> (404) 727-1125
>
> Psychology Today Blog:
> http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist
>
> 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology:
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html
>
> Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column:
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/
>
> The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work
> and his play,
> his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his
> recreation,
> his love and his intellectual passions.  He hardly knows which is which.
> He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
> leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
> To him - he is always doing both.
>
> - Zen Buddhist text
>  (slightly modified)
>
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Britt, Michael [mailto:michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:56 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?
>
> I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's
> recent article, "Finding Little Albert" which recently appeared in the
> American Psychologist and I asked Dr. Beck who is responsible
> inserting the word "Little" in front of  "Albert".  His research
> didn't turn up an answer to this question.  Anyone have any ideas on
> where the "Little" came from?
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Britt
> mich...@thepsychfiles.com
> www.thepsychfiles.com
> Twitter: mbritt
>
>
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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Ken Steele]

My assumption was that the name was a reference to the case of 
Little Hans, also.  Note that the Watson & Rayner (1920) article 
ends with a discussion of how a Freudian would try to explain 
Albert's fear as coming from a sexual event.


Here is the next to last paragraph of Watson & Rayner --

"The Freudians twenty years from now, unless their hypotheses 
change, when they come to analyze Albert's fear of a seal skin 
coat - assuming that he comes to analysis at that age - will 
probably tease from him the recital of a dream which upon their 
analysis will show that Albert at three years of age attempted to 
play with the pubic hair of the mother and was scolded violently 
for it. (We are by no means denying that this might in some other 
case condition it). If the analyst has sufficiently prepared 
Albert to accept such a dream when found as an explanation of his 
avoiding tendencies, and if the analyst has the authority and 
personality to put it over, Albert may be fully convinced that 
the dream was a true revealer of the factors which brought about 
the fear."




Ken


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Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:

Michael - I'll leave that interesting question to the historians on this 
listserv, but I'll advance one hypothesis (maybe others can confirm or refute): 
Perhaps Watson was trying to counterpose his case against Freud's Little Hans 
case of a phobia supposedly acquired through psychoanalytic mechanisms.  
...Scott


Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences 
(PAIS)
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slil...@emory.edu
(404) 727-1125

Psychology Today Blog: 
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist

50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology:
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html

Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/

The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and 
his play,
his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his 
recreation,
his love and his intellectual passions.  He hardly knows which is which.
He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him - he is always doing both.

- Zen Buddhist text
  (slightly modified)




-Original Message-
From: Britt, Michael [mailto:michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:56 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's
recent article, "Finding Little Albert" which recently appeared in the
American Psychologist and I asked Dr. Beck who is responsible
inserting the word "Little" in front of  "Albert".  His research
didn't turn up an answer to this question.  Anyone have any ideas on
where the "Little" came from?

Michael

Michael Britt
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
www.thepsychfiles.com
Twitter: mbritt




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Re: [tips] more pseudoscience?

[Christopher D. Green]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_therapy
Sounds like a bit of Ellis, and bit of Maslow, and a bit of Beck, all 
wrapped in an easily-salable package.

I've been reading Barbara Ehrenreich book _Bright-Sided_, a popular 
history of the positive-thinking movement. You might send a copy to your 
administration. They could probably save a lot of money by ending the 
attempt to make all of their employees "happier" and "more effective."

Chris
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Bourgeois, Dr. Martin wrote:
> Well, my administration is at it again. Just got this announcement, and on a 
> quick search, I found no evidence that this therapy is empirically supported. 
> Anyone know anything about reality therapy?
>
>
> Dr. Robert Wubbolding is well known in the mental health field and academic 
> world as a Reality Therapy expert. If you are fond of another theory or 
> technique this is still “a do not miss workshop.”  Dr. Wubbolding presents a 
> Reality Therapy Approach to helping clients and students "get real".  Dr. 
> Wubbolding presents a lively, witty, fast moving practical interactive 
> all–day workshop offering proven techniques and skills that will enhance 
> professional practice. 
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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Peter Kepros]

Is it because "Fat Albert" (see Bill Cosby) was already taken? >:-}

Peter Kepros
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, NB   E3B 2B2
Canada

At 09:56 AM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
>I've been preparing an episode in which I'll be reviewing Hall Beck's
>recent article, "Finding Little Albert" which recently appeared in the
>American Psychologist and I asked Dr. Beck who is responsible
>inserting the word "Little" in front of  "Albert".  His research
>didn't turn up an answer to this question.  Anyone have any ideas on
>where the "Little" came from?
>
>Michael
>
>Michael Britt
>mich...@thepsychfiles.com
>www.thepsychfiles.com
>Twitter: mbritt
>
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Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[Allen Esterson]

���Ken Steele writes:
>Here is the next to last paragraph of Watson & Rayner

>"The Freudians twenty years from now, unless their hypotheses change,
>when they come to analyze Albert's fear of a seal skin coat - assuming
>that he comes to analysis at that age - will probably tease from him 
the
>recital of a dream which upon their analysis will show that Albert at
>three years of age attempted to play with the pubic hair of the mother
>and was scolded violently for it. (We are by no means denying that 
this
>might in some other case condition it). If the analyst has 
sufficiently
>prepared Albert to accept such a dream when found as an explanation
>of his avoiding tendencies, and if the analyst has the authority and
>personality to put it over, Albert may be fully convinced that the 
dream
>was a true revealer of the factors which brought about the fear."

That would a considerable advance on the reality of the "Little Hans" 
analysis! (Actually undertaken by the boy's father under the guidance 
of Freud.) The little boy had developed a fear of going out in the 
street, and a fear of a horse biting him, after witnessing a bus-horse 
fall in the street in front of him. Straightforward enough, one might 
think, but that would be underestimating the imaginative feats of 
Sigmund "Sherlock" Freud. The analysis reveals that the fear all 
stemmed from the fact that "Hans really was a little Oedipus who wanted 
to get his father 'out of the way', to get rid of him, so he might be 
alone with his beautiful mother and sleep with her." Freud acknowledges 
that "Hans deeply loved [his] father", but nevertheless he harboured 
"death wishes" against him – revealed, of course, by the analysis. You 
see, "Behind the fear to which Hans first gave expression, the fear of 
a horse biting him, we have discovered a more deeply seated fear, the 
fear of horses falling down; and both kinds of horses, the biting horse 
and the falling horse, had been shown to represent his father, who was 
going to punish him for the evil wishes he was nourishing against him."

Freud tells us that during the single short "consultation" he had with 
the boy (with the father present), he "disclosed to him that he was 
afraid of his father because he was so fond of his mother…" But that 
was only a small part of what the boy was told by the father on behalf 
of Freud, who acknowledges: "It is true that during the analysis Hans 
had to be told many things he could not say himself, and he had to be 
presented with thoughts which he had so far shown no signs of 
possessing…" In a candid moment not in evidence in his popular works he 
now writes: "This detracts from the evidential value of the analysis; 
but the procedure is the same in every case. For a psychoanalysis is 
not an impartial scientific investigation, but a therapeutic measure… 
In a psychoanalysis the physician always gives his patient (sometimes 
to a greater and sometimes to a lesser extent) the conscious 
anticipatory ideas by means of which he is put in a position to 
recognize and to grasp the unconscious material."

The mystery here is not the origins of the boy's phobia, but that for 
several generations analysts and admirers of Freud could ever have 
taken this case history seriously.

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
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Re: [tips] Darwin's illness revisited

[Allen Esterson]

���Re the recent article in the Guardian about an article positing yet 
another "solution" to Darwin's illness, Stephen Black writes:
>I find it curious that he does not mention the most recent, Campbell
>and Matthews (2005), published in the sister publication of the BMJ,
>the Postgraduate Medical Journal. They cover much of the same
>ground as Hayman in rejecting other possibilities, but argue that
>the cause was lactose intolerance.

Stephen has missed (vacationing?) what I find the most likely 
explanation, cited on TIPS on 5 October this year:

"Darwin's illness: a final diagnosis" (2007)
Fernando Orrego (Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, 
Santiago, Chile)
and Carlos Quintana (Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of 
Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile; Department of 
Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Catholic University of Chile)

Notes and Records of the Royal Society 2007: 61, 23-29

http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/61/1/23.full.pdf+html

Abstract
We have re-examined many of the abundant publications on the illness 
that afflicted
Charles Darwin during most of his life, including some of the 416 
health-related letters in
his correspondence, as well as his autobiographical writings. We have 
concluded that he
suffered from Crohn’s disease, located mainly in his upper small 
intestine. This explains
his upper abdominal pain, his flatulence and vomiting, as well as his 
articular and
neurological symptoms, his ‘extreme fatigue’, low fever and especially 
the chronic,
relapsing course of his illness that evolved in bouts, did not affect 
his life expectancy and
decreased with old age, and also the time of life at which it started. 
It apparently does not
explain, however, many of his cutaneous symptoms. We do not support 
other diagnoses
such as Chagas’ disease, lactose intolerance or the many psychiatric 
conditions that have
been postulated.

Conclusion
In summary, virtually all of the symptoms of Darwin’s ‘mysterious 
illness’ may be explained
by Crohn’s disease, with the possible exception of some of the numerous 
skin alterations
(eczema, rash, erythema and boils) that he suffered, part of which seem 
to have been present
before the Beagle voyage. It is also known that eczema is increased by 
stress, which Darwin
suffered abundantly, and that in inflammatory bowel disease the 
response to stressors is
enhanced. In retrospect, it is of interest that the most accurate 
diagnosis made during
Darwin’s life was that by Dr Edward Lane, who said he suffered from 
‘dyspepsia of an
aggravated character’, which, at the time, was the closest he could get 
to Crohn’s disease…

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

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[tips] Darwin's illness revisited
sblack
Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:27:58 -0800
Chris Green drew my attention on another list to an article in
The Guardian on yet another theory to explain Darwin's curious
set of ailments (see http://tinyurl.com/ydyommv ).

We've discussed this matter on a number of previous
occasions. The best-known theory is that his condition was
psychosomatic, brought on by anxiety associated with writing
and promoting his Godless theory. The smart money says this
theory is nonsense.

The  Guardian article is based on a report in the current
Christmas edition of the BMJ, where they traditionally publish
funny or quirky items saved up over the year (this year more
quirky than funny). The article is "Darwin's illness revisited" by
John Hayman. It's available at
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/339/dec11_2/b4968

(says extract only, but it lies)

Hayman claims the disorder from which Darwin periodically
suffered (and he really did suffer) is something called "cyclical
vomiting syndrome" which is as nasty as it sounds.

Two things strike me about Hayman's account.  First, he
reproduces from Darwin's diary a description of the early onset
of seasickness on setting sail in the Beagle. Darwin says it
caused him "great & unceasing suffering".

Hayman comments, "Darwin's seasickness was clearly more
severe than that normally experienced".  As someone who gets
sick on a ferrry ride, I can speak from experience. Darwin's
description is about what one would expect for a sailing ship in
the north Atlantic. I suspect that Hayman has himself never
experienced this charming phenomenon. He should try it.

Second, while Hayman lists and rules out a number of other
possible diagnoses,  I find it curious that he does not mention
the most recent, Campbell and Matthews (2005), published in
the sister publication of the BMJ, the Postgraduate Medical
Journal. They cover much of the same ground as Hayman in
rejecting other possibilities, but argue that the cause was
lactose intolerance.

See http://pmj.bmj.com/content/81/954/248.abstract
and click on free pdf (may possibly require free registration if
that doesn't work).

Unfortunately, there doesn

Re: [tips] Who put the "Little" in "Little Albert"?

[sblack]

In answer to Michael Britt's question, we have a candidate (two, 
actually).

The earliest use of the phrase "Little Albert" in relation to 
Watson's experiment that I could find by database searching is 
this one:

Daniel, W.J. (1944). Conditioning a systematic searching 
response. The Journal of Comparative Psychology, Vol 37(4), 
251-263.

He said:

... and more to the broader problems of trial and error learning. 
Even in Watson's case the experiments with "little Albert" were 
by no means limited to atomic reflexes. But for the most part the 
experimental observations have been ...  

The next most recent was this one:

McGill, V.J., and Welch, L. (1946). A behaviorist analysis of 
emotions. Philosophy of Science, 13, 100-122. 

They said on p. 115:

"Thus even Watson makes clear that little Albert´s reaction to 
the rat depended upon its position and movement in Albert´s 
space-time situation". "

Note the mention of "atomic reflexes" in the Daniel excerpt and 
the even clearer mention of "space-time situation" in McGill and 
Welch's. This seem likely to be clever references to  the original 
"Little Albert", whose field was not psychology but physics. 

But I also boldly claim that it was neither Daniel nor McGill and 
Welch who were responsible for popularizing the term in 
psychology. This was the contribution of Hans Eysenck 15 years 
later.  Starting in 1959 there was a flurry of "Little Albert" 
mentions in his publications at a time when no one else seemed 
to be using the term. Given Eysenck's wide readership and 
influence, this probably was the start of the irreversable linkage 
of "litttle" to "Albert" in the Watson study.

His earliest is this one:

Eysenck, H.J. (1959). Learning theory and behaviour therapy. 
Journal of Mental Science, 105: 61-75.
 
" The paradigm of neurotic symptom formation would be 
Watson's famous experiment with little Albert, a nine months old 
boy who was fond of white rats (44). By a simple process of 
classical Pavlovian conditioning Watson created"

Here's another:

Eysenck, H.J.  (1960). Personality and Behaviour Therapy. 
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine,  53(7): 504-508. 

".The paradigm of neurotic symptom formation would be 
Watson's famous experiment in which, by a simple process of 
classic Pavlovian conditioning, Watson and Raynor (1920) 
caused a phobia for white rats in an 11-months-old boy ("little 
Albert") by standing behind him".

So the names and dates to beat are Daniel (1944) as first user, 
and Eysenck (1959) as first popularizer.

Note: I haven't directly checked any of these references, and 
give them, my own typos notwithstanding, as they arrived from 
the databases.

Stephen

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Bishop's University   
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Re: [tips] more pseudoscience?

[Mike Palij]

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:48:03 -0800, Christopher D. Green wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_therapy 
>Sounds like a bit of Ellis, and bit of Maslow, and a bit of Beck, all 
>wrapped in an easily-salable package.

Scott Lilienfeld can correct me about the historical and theoretical aspects
about what I'm about to say but I think that there is a stream of development
in cognitive therapy that some might find odd or questionable.  One way to
view the development of cognitive therapy is to see Albert Ellis as being a
key figure in formulating basic concepts and laying out a theoretical framework
what would go on to be used by people like Aaron Beck in his cognitive 
formulation of depression which in turn would influence clinicians during the
1960s and as the limitations of behavior therapy became apparent, in the
1970s the development of a research based cognitive-behavioral therapy
approach which, in part, validated some of the ideas by Ellis and Beck and
others.  Ongoing clinical research has attempted to identify what components
of cognitively oriented therapy are critical and, I believe, that 
"transtheoretical
approach" is/was attempting to develop a comprehensive framework that would
explain why different cognitive therapies as well as other effective therapies
that derive from other theoretical frameworks (such as Interpersonal Therapy 
or IPT).

However, an outside observer might see that, especially in the 1950s, there
was a mish-mash of theoretical approaches and conceptions that operated
within and outside of academia.  One theoretical approach was suggested by
Alfred "Count" Korzykski's "General Semantics" approach which was presented
in his book "Science and Sanity".  The General Semantics approach was a
popular theory, at least informally, and a number of people subscribed to it
to varying degrees.  The General Semantics society put out a journal/magazine
titled "ETC" which had a number of well-known scientists publish in it.
For more on General Semantics, see the Wikipedia entry (standard disclaimers 
apply):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics

The journal ETC is still being published and its website is:
http://www.generalsemantics.org/index.php/browse/pubs/review.html
Journal databases seem to have info on articles in ETC from the early 
1980s-1990s
but there are databases that may have all issues back to 1943.  There may still 
be bound copies of the journal in libraries (a search of WorldCat suggests that 
a number of colleges have ETC in its collections but usually not the "major" 
universities). Albert Ellis has a number of articles published in ETC (as well 
as 
elsewhere) including these relatively recent ones:

Ellis, A. (2007). GENERAL SEMANTICS AND RATIONAL-EMOTIVE THERAPY: 1991 ALFRED 
KORZYBSKI MEMORIAL LECTURE. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 64(4), 301-319. 
Retrieved from Education Research Complete database.

Ellis, A. (1990). HOW TO THINK SCIENTIFICALLY ABOUT YOURSELF, OTHER PEOPLE, AND 
YOUR LIFE CONDITIONS. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, 47(2), 135-141. 
Retrieved from Education Research Complete database.

I make these points because some people may only be familiar with the General
Semantics approach from reading Martin Gardner's "Fads and Fallacies in the
Name of Science" which is provided in limited preview on books.google.com; see:
http://tinyurl.com/yfvnjj6 

Gardner debunks Korzybski's theoretical framework and General Semantics as
psuedoscience or, at best, a theory in need of empirical research support.  One
might ask "What was Ellis doing being involved in this stuff?"  But getting 
back to
Glasser and Reality Therapy.

Glasser developed his ideas in this context and even Ellis was involved in
discussing it and comparing and contrasting it with his own approach; for
example, see:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/x3k0277l0j82t3q2/fulltext.pdf?page=1

To make things even more bizarre, at least to show what other outgrowths
there were from the General Semantics perspective, consider the following
account by science fiction writer Jerry Purnelle, a Ph.D. in social psych and
former columnist for Byte magazine, who describes the 1999 "Writers of the
Future Awards" and explains that he is well aware of how they got started
and who has been involved with it though the Awards has been a separate
activity; see:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/pictures/wotf.html

Curiouser and couriouser.  Or busy, busy, busy.

So, what to make of Glasser and Reality Therapy?  One would have to
undertake a serious examination of his theories and whether they are in
fact supported by the results of high quality research.  Or one could just
dismiss it as being just another one of those "crazy" therapeutic approaches
that is represented, say, the following:
http://www.gooddecisions.com.au/pdfs/TheoreticalRootsNLPcoaching%20.pdf

>I've been reading Barbara Ehrenreich book _Bright-Sided_, a popular 
>history of the positive-thinking movement. You might send a copy t

[tips] Tipsters at Oral Roberts

[michael sylvester]

Please accept my condolences at the death of your founder.I feel your pain.

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[tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[michael sylvester]

 I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the only 
behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials? We do not say P 
Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF Skinner?
Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the BF stands 
for in BF Skinner?

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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Jim Dougan]

At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:


 I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the 
only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials? 
We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF Skinner?
Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the 
BF stands for in BF Skinner?


I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is 
something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein 
sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens, 
etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by 
friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's 
friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.


Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to 3 initials.

-- J.D. Dougan
   



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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[michael sylvester]

I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.

Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to 3 
initials.


-- J.D. Dougan


And while on this subject,what does the APA manual say about citing an 
author? Do we spell out the full name or what? I can remember having  proble 
ms with "Spence".I could not decide who was who,for example Spence & Spence 
or Loftus & Loftus.


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[tips] External reviewers for our undergraduate program?

[Frieze, Irene H]

As part of an overall departmental strategic plan and external evaluation of 
the department, I have been asked to recommend names of departments with 
excellent undergraduate programs in Psychology.  We are especially looking for 
such departments within a large public university, as we are.  Any suggestions 
would be greatly appreciated.
Irene
.
Irene Hanson Frieze, Ph.D.
Director, Undergraduate Programs in Psychology
Professor of Psychology, Women's Studies
  and Business Administration
Department of Psychology
3329 Sennott Square
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA  15260

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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Paul Brandon]

Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred 'Fred'.
Anecdote:
I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's first  
grad students:
Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into  
Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign  
around his neck saying FRED.


On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:


At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:



 I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF  
Skinner?

Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
BF stands for in BF Skinner?


I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.

Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to  
3 initials.


-- J.D. Dougan


Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
paul.bran...@mnsu.edu


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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Britt, Michael]

If I had a name like "Burrhus" I'd probably do the same thing.


Michael Britt
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
www.thepsychfiles.com
Twitter: mbritt

On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:

Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred  
'Fred'.

Anecdote:
I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's  
first grad students:
Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into  
Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign  
around his neck saying FRED.


On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:


At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:



I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF  
Skinner?

Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
BF stands for in BF Skinner?


I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.

Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to  
3 initials.


-- J.D. Dougan


Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
paul.bran...@mnsu.edu


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[DeVolder Carol L]

How is Burrhus pronounced?





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-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

If I had a name like "Burrhus" I'd probably do the same thing.


Michael Britt
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
www.thepsychfiles.com
Twitter: mbritt

On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:

> Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred  
> 'Fred'.
> Anecdote:
> I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's  
> first grad students:
> Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into  
> Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign  
> around his neck saying FRED.
>
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:
>
>> At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
>>> only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
>>> We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF  
>>> Skinner?
>>> Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
>>> BF stands for in BF Skinner?
>>
>> I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
>> something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
>> sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
>> etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
>> friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
>> friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.
>>
>> Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to  
>> 3 initials.
>>
>> -- J.D. Dougan
>
> Paul Brandon
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology
> Minnesota State University, Mankato
> paul.bran...@mnsu.edu
>
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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Paul Brandon]

Fred

On Dec 16, 2009, at 1:16 PM, DeVolder Carol L wrote:


How is Burrhus pronounced?



-Original Message-
From: Britt, Michael [mailto:michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

If I had a name like "Burrhus" I'd probably do the same thing.



On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:


Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred
'Fred'.
Anecdote:
I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's
first grad students:
Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into
Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign
around his neck saying FRED.

On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:


At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:



I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF
Skinner?
Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
BF stands for in BF Skinner?


I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.

Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to
3 initials.

-- J.D. Dougan


Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
paul.bran...@mnsu.edu


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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[kulig]

Burrr  it's really cold here (actually it is!!)
--Original Message--
From: DeVolder Carol L
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
ReplyTo: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?
Sent: Dec 16, 2009 2:16 PM

How is Burrhus pronounced?





Carol DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
Davenport, Iowa  52803

phone: 563-333-6482
e-mail: devoldercar...@sau.edu


-Original Message-
From: Britt, Michael [mailto:michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:09 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

If I had a name like "Burrhus" I'd probably do the same thing.


Michael Britt
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
www.thepsychfiles.com
Twitter: mbritt

On Dec 16, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:

> Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred  
> 'Fred'.
> Anecdote:
> I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's  
> first grad students:
> Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into  
> Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign  
> around his neck saying FRED.
>
> On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:
>
>> At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
>>> only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
>>> We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF  
>>> Skinner?
>>> Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
>>> BF stands for in BF Skinner?
>>
>> I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
>> something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
>> sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
>> etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
>> friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
>> friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.
>>
>> Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to  
>> 3 initials.
>>
>> -- J.D. Dougan
>
> Paul Brandon
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology
> Minnesota State University, Mankato
> paul.bran...@mnsu.edu
>
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[kulig]

Not a psychologist per se but T. Berry Brazelton also goes by his middle name 
too
--Original Message--
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Sent: Dec 16, 2009 2:04 PM

Besides, he never liked his given first name, and much preferred 'Fred'.
Anecdote:
I got this story from C. B. (Charlie) Ferster; one of Skinner's first  
grad students:
Ferster (a frequent visitor at Skinner's home) once walked into  
Skinner's living room to find Skinner seated on a sofa with a sign  
around his neck saying FRED.

On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:

> At 12:22 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>>  I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the
>> only behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials?
>> We do not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF  
>> Skinner?
>> Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the
>> BF stands for in BF Skinner?
>
> I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is
> something of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein
> sometimes went as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens,
> etc.  They are respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by
> friends - but they published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's
> friends called him "Fred" so he does not break the pattern.
>
> Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to  
> 3 initials.
>
> -- J.D. Dougan

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Christopher D. Green]

Lots of people say EB Titchener, EC Tolman, EG Boring, and EL Thorndike. 
Usually it is because they used this form of their name in publication. 
In SKinner's case, he never use his first name "Burrhus." He went by the 
diminutive of his middle name, "Fred."

Chris Green
York U.
Toronto
===

michael sylvester wrote:
>
>
>  I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the only 
> behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials? We do 
> not say P Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF Skinner?
> Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the BF 
> stands for in BF Skinner?
>  
> Michael Sylvester,PhD
> Daytona Beach,Florida
>


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[Lilienfeld, Scott O]

Interestingly, we have one radical behaviorist on our psychology faculty at 
Emory (Ph.D. student of Howard Rachlin, whom I believe in turn was a Ph.D. 
student of Skinner at Harvard) - and he often goes by J.J. McDowell.  ...Scott


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He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does,
leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing.
To him - he is always doing both.

- Zen Buddhist text
  (slightly modified)



From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:56 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?


Lots of people say EB Titchener, EC Tolman, EG Boring, and EL Thorndike. 
Usually it is because they used this form of their name in publication. In 
SKinner's case, he never use his first name "Burrhus." He went by the 
diminutive of his middle name, "Fred."

Chris Green
York U.
Toronto
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michael sylvester wrote:

 I could swear that your students will not know.Btw,why is he the only 
behavioral scienist we address with his first two inititials? We do not say P 
Brandon,C Green, S Black,or C Hull,so why the BF Skinner?
Was there a Jaywalking episode where Jay Leno asked people what the BF stands 
for in BF Skinner?

Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida



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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Ken Steele]

Thank goodness that Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was not a member of the 
Harvard faculty.


Ken

Jim Dougan wrote:


I am told by my graduate advisor (F.K. McSweeney) that it is something 
of a Harvard tradition to publish that way.  Herrnstein sometimes went 
as R.J. Herrnstein.  Stevens went by S.S. Stevens, etc.  They are 
respectively called "Fran" Dick" and "Smitty" by friends - but they 
published using initials.  Of course, Skinner's friends called him 
"Fred" so he does not break the pattern.


Of course there is JER Staddon and MEP Seligman if we want to go to 3 
initials.


-- J.D. Dougan
  

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RE: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Jim Dougan]

At 03:00 PM 12/16/2009, you wrote:


>Interestingly, we have one radical behaviorist 
>on our psychology faculty at Emory (Ph.D. 
>student of Howard Rachlin, whom I believe in 
>turn was a Ph.D. student of Skinner at Harvard) 
>– and he often goes by J.J. McDowell.  …Scott
>
>

Scott - actually it is J. J McDowell (no 
period).  His middle name is the letter J all by itself.

:)



>Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
>Professor
>Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice
>Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology 
>and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS)
>Emory University
>36 Eagle Row
>Atlanta, Georgia 30322
>slil...@emory.edu
>(404) 727-1125
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Re: [tips] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[sblack]

On 16 Dec 2009 at 16:10, Ken Steele wrote:

> 
> Thank goodness that Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was not a member of the 
> Harvard faculty.

Actually, it seems it's possible that we won't have to worry about 
names at all. As articles are now identified by a DOI, a new 
proposal is that published authors will be known by an ORCID, 
an alphanumeric string.

Much better than being known as B.F. Skinner, don't you think?

Nature editorial:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/462825a.h
tml
or
http://tinyurl.com/yfbgxfo
(possibly need free registration)

The project: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/orcid/

Stephen
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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] Who put the BF in Skinner?

[Paul Brandon]

But Rachlin prefers 'Howie' ;-)

On Dec 16, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:

> Interestingly, we have one radical behaviorist on our psychology  
> faculty at Emory (Ph.D. student of Howard Rachlin, whom I believe  
> in turn was a Ph.D. student of Skinner at Harvard) – and he often  
> goes by J.J. McDowell.  …Scott

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
paul.bran...@mnsu.edu


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RE: [tips] External reviewers for our undergraduate program?

[Frantz, Sue]

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Div 2), in cooperation
with APA's Education Directorate, offers a Department Consulting Service
that does program reviews.  See
http://teachpsych.org/otrp/deptconsult.php.

 

Sue

 

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Highline Community College
Psychology, CoordinatorDes Moines, WA
206.878.3710 x3404  sfra...@highline.edu

Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology, Associate Director 

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[tips] TIPSTER OF THE WEEK

[michael sylvester]

MIKE  PALIJ

Congrats!  Subject to repetition.

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida


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