Re: [tips] social psychology trade books; need recommendations for project

2009-12-29 Thread Britt, Michael
How about The Myth of Repressed Memory by Loftus


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On Dec 29, 2009, at 2:15 PM, Traci Giuliano wrote:

 I'm always on the lookout for recent (or even not-so-recent trade  
 books that I may have missed) for a project in which students read  
 trade books written by social psychologists (or sometimes non social  
 psychologists on social psychological topics) and develop useful  
 applications based on the book for a class project.

 If anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.

 For reference, here is the list that I used last year:

 1) Self insight (Dunning)
 2) The mismeasure of women (Tavris)
 3) The how of happiness (Lyubomirsky)
 4) How we know what isn’t so (Gilovich)
 5) Mindfulness (Langer)
 6) Intuition (Myers)
 7) Curse of the Self (Leary)
 8) White bears (Wegner)
 9) Strangers to ourselves (Wilson)
 10) Making marriage work (Gottman)
 11) The relationship cure (Gottman)
 12) Opening up (Pennebaker)
 13) Singled out (DePaulo)
 14) Emotions revealed (Ekman)
 15) Telling lies (Ekman)
 16) Breaking Murphy’s Law (Segerstrom)
 17) Survival of the prettiest (Etcoff)
 18) Stumbling on Happiness (Gilbert)
 19) American Paradox (Myers)
 20) Meanings of Life (Baumeister)
 21) The two sexes (Maccoby)
 22) Why so slow? (Valian)
 23) Everyday mind reading (Ickes)
 24) Losing control (Baumeister)
 25) Friendly letter to skeptics (Myers)
 26) Mistakes were made (Tavris)
 27) The cultural animal (Baumeister)

 Thanks!!

 -- 

 Traci A. Giuliano

 Professor of Psychology

 John H. Duncan Chair


 Southwestern University

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[tips] The Token Economy comes to the iPhone

2009-12-29 Thread Britt, Michael
Having a problem raising your kids?  iPhone to the rescue!  Actually,  
it might be interesting to ask students if they can name what  
behavioral technique is at work here:


http://bit.ly/tokenecon


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[tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know

2009-12-27 Thread Britt, Michael
I'm putting together notes for an upcoming episode which I've decided  
would be on the idea of showing listeners that while they might first  
associate psychology with Freud and Pavlov, they really know (or at  
least are somewhat familiar with) more studies/concepts from our field  
than they realize.  I scoured a few sources and come up with the list  
below, which was surprisingly longer than I thought it would be, but I  
may be stretching things in some cases as well as completely missing  
the obvious.  If you could suggest an addition to the list that would  
be much appreciated.  I'll post the complete list once I get  
everyone's feedback.  Remember: these are not what we as teachers  
would consider important in the history of psychology - just events/ 
studies/concepts that the general public are probably somewhat  
familiar with in one way or another.

Thanks for your feedback!


The Technique of Correlation is developed   1890
Animal Intelligence (Law of Effect is developed) - Edward Thorndike -
1898
The Interpretation of Dreams Sigmund Freud  1900
Intelligence Test was published in France Alfred Binet  1905
Formula for the Intelligence Quotient William Stern 1912
Carl Jung develops Analytical Psychology (collective unconscious,  
archetypes, anima/animus)   1913
Conditioned Emotional Resposes - Watson and Rayner  1920
Rorshach's Inkblot Test 1921
Conditioned Reflexes - Pavlov   1927
Wechsler-Bellevue Intelligence Test published   1939
The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense - Anna Freud  1948
Childhood and Society (eight stages of psycho-social devel) - Erikson
1950
Client Centered Therapy 1951
Rapid Eye Movement (REM) discovered 1953
Motivation and Personality is Published  (hierarchy of needs) - Maslow  
-1954
The Development of Object Concept (Piaget - object permanence,  
egocentrism) - 1954
Opinions and Social Pressure (Asch) - 1954
The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (Miller)1956
The Natue of Love   1958 (Harlow's monkeys)
Cognitive Dissonance1959 (Festinger's study)
Imprinting is demonstrated  1961 (Lorenz)
Transmission of Aggression Through Imitation of Aggressive Models   1961  
(Bandura's Bobo Doll study)
Systematic Desensitization (Wolpe)  1961
Thinking And Depression Beck, A. (1963).
Behavioral Study of Obedience (Milgram) 1963
Human Sexual Response   (Master's and Johnson) 1966
Teacher's Expectancies (Rosenthal and Jacobson) 1966
The Split Brain in Man (Sperry) 1967
Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock (Seligman)1967
Bystander Intervention (Latane and Darley)  1968
On Death and Dying (Kubler-Ross)1969
The Pathology of Imprisonment (Zimbardo)1972
On Being Sane in Insane Places  (Rosenhan) 1973
Type A and B Personality1974
Leading Questions and the Eyewitness Report (Loftus)1975
Frames of Mind: the Theory of Multiple Intelligences1983
The Jigsaw Classroom1986
Emotional Intelligence concept - 1995


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Re: [tips] List of Psychological Studies the Public Might Know

2009-12-27 Thread Britt, Michael
Annette,

Thanks for your great list of commonly held beliefs.  I've actually  
addressed a number of them in separate episodes - Interviewed Ken  
Steele on the Mozart Effect in episodes 59 and 61, addressed the  
lack of support for subliminal perception in episode 75, and  
interviewed Daniel Willingham on the learning styles myth in episode  
90, but you've got some other good ones here.

Regarding Scott Lillienfeld's book on 50 Myths: I'm one step ahead  
of you.  I interviewed Scott just before the holidays about his book  
and as soon as things quiet down from the holidays I'll finish editing  
that episode.  We talked about these myths from his book:

the myth regarding not changing your first hunch on a multiple choice  
test
the polygrah, the so-called lie detector test
the myth of how men and women communicate differently
handwriting analysis

as well myths regarding the full moon, the concept of the  
representativeness, and naive realism

The book is excellent and could provide much fodder for class  
discussion as well as a jumping off point for student research.


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On Dec 27, 2009, at 10:10 AM, tay...@sandiego.edu wrote:

 I like your list and could probably add but this will already  
 overwhelm folks who don't realize what they do know about  
 psychology. Maybe I would add Donald Norman's books on using  
 everyday things as a good example of how much cognitive  
 psychologists have contributed to everyday life.

 What I would like to see you do is make sure you talk about whether  
 or not the items on the list have evidence to support them. For  
 example, it would be good to debunk the Rorschach (see lots of stuff  
 written or edited by Scott Lilienfeld), the psychodynamic stuff in  
 general, the uses and misuses of intelligence testing, the multiple  
 intelligences stuff, the conflicting evidence on Kubler-Ross'  
 formulation of grief stages, etc.

 And maybe a special episode on commonly believed in psychobabble!  
 Here is a short list.
 *Sugar CAUSES hyperactivity in children.
 *Listening to Mozart will make you smarter.
 *Teaching babies sign language will make them smarter.
 *We all have a distinct learning style that is either visual,  
 auditory or kinesthetic.
 *The right side of the brain is creative and emotional; the left  
 side is rigid and logical. (or any other variety of popular but  
 incorrect dichotomy)
 *Most people only use 10% of their brains.
 *Subliminal messages can be used to persuade others to purchase  
 products.
 *Immediate contact between a mother and infant after birth is  
 critical for bonding.
 *You can “spoil a baby if you respond to its demands too quickly.
 *The suicide rate is higher among adolescents than any other age  
 group.
 *In criminal eyewitnesses, confidence is closely related to accuracy.
 *Hypnosis is ... fill in with any number of misconceptions.
 *Individuals commonly repress the memories of painful or traumatic  
 experiences.
 *If you’re unsure of your answer while taking a test, it’s best to  
 stick with your initial hunch.
 *The defining feature of dyslexia is seeing words backwards (e.g.,  
 “pal” instead of “lap”).
 *Individuals can learn information (e.g., new languages) while asleep.
 *It is generally better to express anger openly than to hold it in.
 *When it comes to communication styles, women talk more than men.  
 (“Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”).
 *People’s attitudes are highly predictive of their actual behaviors.
 *People’s responses to inkblots tell us a great deal about their  
 personalities and propensities toward mental disorders.
 *“Psychological profiling” has been shown to be an effective means  
 of identifying criminals.
 *A large proportion of criminals are acquitted on the basis of the  
 insanity defense.
 *Clinical judgment and intuition are the best means of combining  
 information to reach a diagnosis for a patient.
 *High self-esteem is necessary for high achievement.
 *Drug education programs (i.e., DARE) are effective in deterring  
 drug use among teenagers.
 *Students have a good sense of how well they know class material.
 *Taste areas for sweet, sour, salty and bitter are well defined on  
 the tongue.
 *Although one could study hard and do better in school,  
 “intelligence” is mostly the result of heredity and genes.
 *Instinct determines many of our behaviors.
 *Vision depends on light waves that exit the eyes and hit objects in  
 the environment.

 Actually, you could do a segment on Scott's book on 50 great myths.  
 Maybe juxtapose it with the segment on how much more we know about  
 real psychology than we think we do.

 Annette

 Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
 Professor of Psychology
 University of San Diego
 5998 Alcala Park
 San Diego, CA 92110
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  Original message 
 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:12:46 -0500
 From: Britt, Michael michael.br

Re: [tips] Martin Bolt

2009-12-26 Thread Britt, Michael
I remember when I first started teaching in the early '90s I was  
provided by the publisher the instructor's manual by Martin Bolt.  I  
found it to me a gold mine of classroom activities, tips and ideas to  
extend student learning beyond the book.  I valued it so much that I  
asked for another copy - one for home and one for the office - so that  
I would never be without it.  I always turned to Dr. Bolt's manual for  
ideas on how to make the lecture come to life.  As  Phil de Haan said  
in his speech for Dr. Bolt when he received the presidential award, he  
was a teacher's teacher.


Michael

Michael Britt


On Dec 26, 2009, at 2:09 AM, Mike Palij wrote:


On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 06:27:11 -0800, David Myers wrote:

Dear teaching colleagues,

I am so sad to report that my friend Martin Bolt, author of many
instructional resources for the teaching of psychology over the  
last quarter
century, died of cancer on Christmas morning, with his family  
gathered

round.

With gratitude for the generosity of his spirit and the excellence  
of his

work,
David Myers
P.S.  If perchance you have benefitted from his resources and might  
have a

word of appreciation, I am collecting such to convey to his family .


For those of you who, like me, were unfamiliar with Martin Bolt, here
is a press release from Calvin College where Bolt taught:

http://www.calvin.edu/news/2009-10/bolt/index-mbolt.html

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New York University
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[tips] That darned ESP trick

2009-12-22 Thread Britt, Michael
A few days ago I asked how that trick by Copperfield was done (the one  
with the cards).  Here's a related question: I thought that the reason  
why it worked was due to confirmation bias, but Riki Koenigsberg  
explained it as due to inattentional blindness (which I guess I'm not  
as familiar with): anyone want to settle this matter and let me know  
which one it is?  Just curious.

By the way, thanks to Jonathan Mueller, here is a link to the trick  
that should be safe:

 http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/pickover/esp2.html

thanks,


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[tips] LIttle Albert follow-up

2009-12-22 Thread Britt, Michael

Stephen,

I've been in contact with Skip Beck the first author of the recent  
Albert article and he has no idea where the little came from.   
Stephen - you're answer sounds good to me.



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On Dec 20, 2009, at 2:24 PM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:


[off-list]

On 20 Dec 2009 at 12:29, Britt, Michael wrote:


Good point Stephen.  The link came from a trusted source on my end -
but still, I'm not sure where that person got the original link.


I'm afraid I live in fear of the evil Internet. Well, not really, but
perhaps just a little paranoid. And while I've got you on the
phone, I was wondering about my note about Little Albert, just a
little disappointed that there were no follow-ups on that
interesting question of yours.

Did you get any other responses which predated Daniel and
Eysenck?

Regards

Stephen



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Re: [tips] Copperfield trick

2009-12-20 Thread Britt, Michael
Wow - I can't believe I didn't figure that one out (...looking for my  
embarrassed emoticon)! Good example of the confirmation bias too.



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On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:25 AM, tay...@sandiego.edu wrote:


Michael, we should let you figure this one out! Tsk tsk.

It's very easy.

None of the cards are the same suit and value throughout the game;  
they all look so similar that it's easy to be fooled.


Annette


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Professor of Psychology
University of San Diego
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San Diego, CA 92110
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Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 08:11:56 -0500
From: Britt, Michael michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com
Subject: [tips] Copperfield trick
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu 



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Re: [tips] Copperfield trick

2009-12-20 Thread Britt, Michael
Good point Stephen.  The link came from a trusted source on my end -  
but still, I'm not sure where that person got the original link.  I  
should have found the trick on its original web site and then given  
everyone the link to that page.  Hopefully no one was infected by this  
(I'll keep my fingers crossed and learn my lesson).



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On Dec 20, 2009, at 11:23 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:


On 20 Dec 2009 at 8:11, Britt, Michael wrote:


Does anyone know how this trick is done?


Before I pass this clever  presentation on, I'm wondering
whether it could possibly be a means of spreading something
malicious. Anyone know whether this should be a concern?

Also, would it be safer to refer people to the originating website
than as Michael sent it to us (presumably pasted into his post)?

Worst case scenario: could we already all be infected?

Stephen
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Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Bishop's University
e-mail:  sbl...@ubishops.ca
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[tips] Helpful YouTube program

2009-12-17 Thread Britt, Michael
If you show YouTube videos in class but don't really want students to  
also see advertisements and who knows what else on the screen while  
you want them to focus on the video, I just found out about a nice  
little program called MiniTube that you might like.  You install it  
on your desktop (Windows and Mac) and It's free and it let's you show  
videos on YouTube without all the distractions.  Here's a screenshot  
of what it looks like:


http://screencast.com/t/OTk2MGI1NTIt

Could come in handy.


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Re: [tips] Fwd: My Twelve Days of Tipsmas

2009-12-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Very funny Annette.  I've been a member of TIPS since the late 90s and  
I hadn't seen this.  Thanks for sharing it.


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On Dec 17, 2009, at 6:43 PM, tay...@sandiego.edu wrote:

 Every year I like to dig this one out and laugh at it. Things  
 haven't changed too, too much in 11 years!

 Thanks, Nancy.

 Annette

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 Subject: My Twelve Days of Tipsmas
 Reply-To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences tips@acsun.frostburg.edu 
 


 I am in a self-promoting mood. Here again for you all is my 1998 12  
 days contribution. Those of you who are familiar with it can delete,  
 those of you who are new to the list, I hope you enjoy it.

 On the first day of Tipsmas I posted to the list
 a view that got everyone pissed.

 On the second day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view that got everyone pissed

 On the third day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view that got everyone pissed

 On the fourth day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view that got everyone pissed

 On the fifth day of Tipsmas we posted to the list (real loud now)

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view that got everyone pissed

 On the sixth day of Tipsmas, we posted to the list
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS!

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view.

 On the seventh day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS!

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view..


 On the 8th day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 8 flames a raging
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS!

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view

 On the 9th day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 9 tests of blindsight
 8 flames a raging
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view 

 On the 10th day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 10 student bloopers
 9 tests of blindsight
 8 flames a raging
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view ...

 On the 11th day of Tipsmas we posted to the list
 11 SET TIPS NO MAIL
 10 student bloopers
 9 tests of blindsight
 8 flames a raging
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS!

 4 complaints to Bill
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a view

 ON THE TWELFTH DAY OF TIPSMAS WE POSTED TO THE LIST...
 12 UNSUBSCRIBE TIPS
 11 SET TIPS NO MAIL
 10 student bloopers
 9 tests of blindsight
 8 flames a raging
 7 skeptics doubting
 6 critiques of Harris

 (big build up)
 5 RANDOM THOUGHTS!!!

 4 complaints to Bill (Tom?)
 3 wisecracks
 2 quotes from Freud
 and a song that got EVERYONE pissed.

 by Melucci 30 November 1998
 Happy Sectarian Winter Holiday of your preference to all
 and to all a good night.




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[tips] Who put the Little in Little Albert?

2009-12-16 Thread 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 BF in Skinner?

2009-12-16 Thread Britt, Michael

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


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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


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Re: [tips] A new Mozart effect...

2009-12-08 Thread Britt, Michael

Oh no.  They're bckkk!

Ken Steele - where are you?

Thanks Rick.  I'll have to dig into this one just for the fun of it.


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On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:33 AM, Rick Froman wrote:


...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

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Division of Humanities and Social Sciences
John Brown University
Siloam Springs, AR  72761
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[tips] It's that time again - Dancing Psychologists!

2009-12-08 Thread Britt, Michael
I always get a smile out of this Elf Yourself tool.  I hope you get  
a smile to.  There are 4 famous psychologists in this quick video.   
Can your students identify them all?


http://bit.ly/psychelves

Michael

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Re: [tips] It's that time again - Dancing Psychologists!

2009-12-08 Thread Britt, Michael
Oops - you're right Chris.  My mistake.  There's only 3.  Or perhaps  
it's a trick question we teachers are so often accused of  
creating.?



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On Dec 8, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:


Four? I only see three people. Is one hiding in the tree? :-)

Chris Green
York U.
Toronto


Britt, Michael wrote:
I always get a smile out of this Elf Yourself tool.  I hope you  
get a smile to.  There are 4 famous psychologists in this quick  
video.  Can your students identify them all?


http://bit.ly/psychelves

Michael

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[tips] Metabolically Expensive

2009-12-05 Thread Britt, Michael
I'm editing an interview with David Buss right now for an upcoming  
episode.   I asked him to respond to all the criticisms that have  
surfaced lately in the press (i.e., Barbara Ehrenreich) and I think he  
does a great job of doing so. I like the way he refers to pregnancy as  
metabolically expensive for females.  That got a smile from my wife.


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[tips] Thoughts/opinions on Integral Theory

2009-12-04 Thread Britt, Michael
Someone asked me what I thought about Ken Wilber and Integral Theory.   
I have to admit that I've never heard of it.  After a quick check  
online my first impression is that his ideas are either new agey or  
just more philosophical than psychological.  I've never seen him  
mentioned in any psych texts.  Anyone familiar with his ideas?


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Re: [tips] Music Therapy Requirements?

2009-12-02 Thread Britt, Michael
Last year I interviewed music therapist Kamile Geist from Ohio  
University.  She says in the interview that anyone who wants to  
contact her to talk about the field of music therapy can certainly do  
so.  Might send your student to her.  Here's the link:

http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2008/05/episode-56-what-is-music-therapy/


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On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:24 PM, Wehlburg, Catherine wrote:


 Fellow TIPsters,

 An undergraduate student (majoring in music composition) and taking  
 my general psychology course, has decided that he is interested in  
 learning more about becoming a music therapist. Are there programs  
 for this? Licensing requirements? Any insight that you have that I  
 can share with my student would be much appreciated. Thank you!

 --Catherine

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Re: [tips] The 51st Great Myth?

2009-11-27 Thread Britt, Michael
Yes, I saw the mini-myths in the book - wedged in between the  
chapters.  Looks like you've got enough for a volume 2 here.  By the  
way, you mentioned in a previous TIPS post that the Associated Press  
had contacted you about Rom Houben and the possible facilitated  
communication issue.  Any follow-up on that?


Michael

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On Nov 27, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:

Many thanks for the kind words, Michael.  Actually, we do address  
this myth on p. 44 of our myths book in our end-of-chapter  
mythlets (or perhaps we should call them mini-myths?).   
CheersScott



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Subject: [tips] The 51st Great Myth?

Lately I've been reading Scott Lillienfeld's great book on myths and
this has perhaps primed me into thinking a lot about myths.  So as I
lie on the couch after today's turkey dinner thinking that the L-
tryptophan was making me sleepy, I had a faint memory of hearing that
there was perhaps nothing to this belief?  Does anyone know if that's
so?

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[tips] The 51st Great Myth?

2009-11-26 Thread Britt, Michael
Lately I've been reading Scott Lillienfeld's great book on myths and  
this has perhaps primed me into thinking a lot about myths.  So as I  
lie on the couch after today's turkey dinner thinking that the L- 
tryptophan was making me sleepy, I had a faint memory of hearing that  
there was perhaps nothing to this belief?  Does anyone know if that's  
so?


Michael

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Re: [tips] facilitated communication?

2009-11-24 Thread Britt, Michael
This really needs to be exposed.  I've been asked to do an episode on  
facilitated communication.  Looks like it's time to get crackin' on it.


Thanks for passing this along Carol,

Michael


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On Nov 24, 2009, at 3:48 PM, DeVolder Carol L wrote:


Might be worth a discussion in class:

http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/783-this-cruel-farce-has-to-stop.html

http://tinyurl.com/yaa4voc

Carol


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Re: [tips] Where Were You On This Date 46 Years Ago?

2009-11-22 Thread Britt, Michael
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.


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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

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 Cc: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu
 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  
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Re: [tips] If Hermann Ebbinghaus Twittered

2009-11-21 Thread Britt, Michael
You know, I didn't get this at first.  Now I do :)


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On Nov 21, 2009, at 8:29 AM, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote:


 I agree with much of Michael's position on Ebbinghaus' possible  
 tweets, except for his actual message, which I suspect would have  
 been something like:

 bes dek fel gup huf jeik mek meun pon daus dor gim ke4k be4p bCn hes.

 

 ;-)

 Miguel


 So his tweet would actually have looked something like this:

 #psychology #memory #nonsense #forgetcurve #histofpsych @wjames @titch
 @gfech Psyc has long past, but shrt hstry.

 And his twitter name might have been: memoryguy


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[tips] If Watson Twittered

2009-11-20 Thread Britt, Michael

Here's what I guess he might have twittered one lazy afternoon:

giv me 12 infants  my own wrld 2 bring them up in I'll take 1 at  
random  train him 2 be dr, lawyr, rtist, merchant-chief, beggar or  
thief.


Michael


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[tips] If Freud Twittered

2009-11-20 Thread Britt, Michael

How about this one:

If Freud twittered: The gr8 question Iv not bn able 2 answer, despite  
my 30yrs of research in2 the feminine soul: 'What does a woman wnt?'


Michael

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[tips] Behaviorism's Dark Side (Humorous...)

2009-11-18 Thread Britt, Michael
Put this in the Now look what you've gone and done department:  
here's what (could) happen when you teach pigeons to peck at buttons:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEjUAnPc2VA

Michael

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[tips] Famous Narcissists?

2009-11-18 Thread Britt, Michael
In my next episode I plan to discuss the study that was published last  
year on the topic of how narcissism can be detected by looking at  
Facebook pages. Since I'm going to talk about narcissism in general,  
and I assume that many of your do in your classes on this topic,  
here's my question: I'd like to refer to someone that just about  
everyone would know and just about everyone would agree is a  
narcissist. Who would make for a good example?


Oh yes, it would be better if this person were dead. ;)

Michael

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[tips] Public domain images of psych equipment/laboratory

2009-11-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Does anyone know where I can get pictures of lab equipment used in  
psychological experiments?  Public domain preferred so that I can use  
it on my web site.



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[tips] Verbal and Nonverbal communication on Comedy Central

2009-11-13 Thread Britt, Michael
There was a very funny sketch on the Nov 4th episode of the Daily  
Show.  Aside from being funny, it might have some connections to  
verbal and nonverbal communication.  To see it you have to sit through  
a 30 sec commercial and then skip to about 5minutes in.  Worth it.   
Might also be good for critical thinking and the media.


http://bit.ly/1q4fLN




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Re: [tips] Rich media?

2009-11-12 Thread Britt, Michael
I would guess that she's talking about sites or tools that combine  
text, images, video, etc.  If that's the case, then I highly recommend:

Sprout (www.sproutbuilder.com), an online tool which allows users to  
combine various forms of media
SlideRocket (http://www.sliderocket.com) - an online alternative to  
PowerPoint
Voicethread (http://voicethread.com) enables students to discuss  
images and video presentations
Timerliner XE (http://www.tomsnyder.com/timelinerxe/) - great timeline  
creation tool in which you can embed photos, video, etc.

Sounds like fun Beth.

Michael

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On Nov 12, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Jim Matiya wrote:


 Hi Beth,
 What is Rich media?

 jim


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 Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:48:35 -0500
 Subject: [tips] Rich media?
 To: tips@acsun.frostburg.edu



 My college is having a workshop to encourage us to use rich media  
 for our online courses and has asked us to bring anything we could  
 or do use.  Do any of you have any suggestions for things I can  
 bring to the workshop?  I know Sue Frantz and Michael Britt have  
 many, many offerings.  But where should I start?  I'm planning an  
 intro course in the spring, so it would be a great place for rich  
 media.  Suggestions appreciated!
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Re: [tips] Rich media?

2009-11-12 Thread Britt, Michael
Sue,

Excellent suggestion regarding WebNotes.  I needed this a couple weeks  
ago but couldn't think of the name!  Neat little tool.

Michael
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On Nov 12, 2009, at 7:42 PM, Frantz, Sue wrote:


 “I know Sue Frantz and Michael Britt have many, many offerings.   
 But…”  Does this mean you don’t want my suggestions?  =)

 I don’t know which of these are rich media and which are merely  
 social media.  (Is social media a kind of rich media?)  I’ll let  
 you, the reader, sort it out.

 The webconferencing tool Annette referred to is Elluminate.  Not  
 free.  But there are some free options.  DimDim is the one that most  
 closely mirrors Elluminate.  There are a couple online whiteboards  
 that are good: Scriblink and Dabbleboard.  If you want a quick and  
 easy way to collaborate just on text, in real time, try Etherpad.

 I would also recommend looking at social bookmarking services, such  
 as Delcious (share your bookmarks), Diigo (share your annotated  
 bookmarks; can create a ‘closed’ class for this), and WebNotes  
 (annotate websites and share with people who don’t have WebNotes).

 A clicker alternative is  PollEverywhere, where students  use their  
 cell phones (or internet-connected computers) to ‘click’ in.  Free  
 for up to 32 students at a time, I think.  Standard text messaging  
 rates apply.

 The easiest-to-use stand-alone wiki software is PBWorks.  Highly  
 recommended.  That’s what we’re using for the new STP wiki.

 For collaboration, Google Docs and Zoho are good options.  If  
 students are working on a group paper, you can see who edited what  
 and when.  For sharing files, my personal favorite is DropBox.

 For in the classroom, I use Classroom Presenter instead of  
 PowerPoint.  CP Is a free product from the Univ. of Washington.   
 They designed it for Tablet PCs, but works with any PC.  If you’re  
 connected to a network and students have laptops connected to the  
 same network, they see your slides on their computers.  They can  
 type notes on the slide.  The very cool feature is that students can  
 type stuff on a slide, then with the click of a button, send the  
 slide to you in real time.  You can then look through, and display  
 to the class the ones you want.  CP also has built-in ‘clicker’  
 functionality.  [Combine CP with a Wii remote and infrared light pen  
 to create a smartboard: 
 http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/the-smartboard-alternative-for-40/ 
  ]

 Diane Finley spoke at NWToP, and she suggested using Audacity to  
 audio record feedback to students instead of typing/writing  
 comments.  Save it as an MP3 and email it to your student.

 I’ve attached the handout I created for a poster at the most recent  
 APA convention.  Most of what I written here is in that handout.


 --
 Sue Frantz Highline  
 Community College
 Psychology, CoordinatorDes Moines, WA
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[tips] More fun with Correlations

2009-11-11 Thread Britt, Michael
I couldn't help but have some more fun with our favorite topic -  
correlations.  If you've got a few minutes for a hopefully humorous  
look at the topic:


http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2009/11/episode-109-correlation-and-causation/

Michael

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Re: [tips] hard studying

2009-11-07 Thread Britt, Michael
Cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham has a great article on this  
topic on his web site: 
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/winter03-04/cognitive.html


Michael Britt
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On Nov 7, 2009, at 3:30 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:

 ¨¨¨On 6 November 2009 Steven Specht wrote:
 I spend some time explaining to students
 that as part of studying they should practice
 the task that they will be asked to perform...

 I'm reminded of the old joke about the stranger to New York asking
 someone How do I get to Carnegie Hall?:

 Practise, practise, practise.

 P.S. Does the following say something about modern educational
 standards?:

 Practise / Practice: ...If you are not sure about what a verb or noun
 is, it might be safer to just use the spelling practice, as many
 Americans do!

 Reference:

 Practise / Practice
 In many parts of the English speaking world (UK, Ireland, Australia,
 Canada, and South Africa) “practice” is the noun, “practise”  
 the verb.
 However, in the U.S.A the spelling “practice” is more often used  
 for
 both the noun and the verb. Contrary to popular belief a significant
 minority of the American population also observe the distinction. If
 you are not sure about what a verb or noun is, it might be safer to
 just use the spelling practice, as many Americans do!

 http://www.world-english.org/practise_practice.htm

 Allen Esterson
 Former lecturer, Science Department
 Southwark College, London
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 Subject:  Re: hard studying
 Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:35:26 -0500
 I spend some time explaining to students that as part of studying
 they should practice the task that they will be asked to perform on
 exams... that is, writing. This sometimes puzzles students. I further
 explain that if the coach wants you to improve your free throws in
 basketball, she doesn't have you read about it or necessarily look at
 others doing the task; but requires YOU to practice the task-- tossing
 up some basketballs. I get frustrated when students (esp. psychology
 majors) think that looking over notes or the text is a way to
 prepare to write responses. I implore them to practice writing
 responses to hypothetical questions as part of their studying so that
 they are rehearsing the task expected of them (and it won't be the
 first time they think about writing a response).

 Specht, Ph.D.
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 Chair, Department of Psychology
 Utica College
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[tips] History of Psych Timeline

2009-11-05 Thread Britt, Michael

Hi everybody,

I decided to put together a history of psychology timeline for an  
episode of my podcast.  Can't figure out why I haven't done this  
before.  I taught Hist of Psych so I've got some notes and texts to to  
dig through in preparation, but I was wondering if anyone in tips land  
could help out.  Perhaps someone has a timeline already?  I'd like to  
integrate major world events with major events, important names, etc.  
in the timeline, as well as adding in some public domain images,  
things like that.  There are a couple very cool timeline programs out  
there, such as Timerliner XE (http://www.tomsnyder.com/timelinerxe/)  
and even a 3D one that I'm itching to try out (http://www.beedocs.com/index.php 
).


As always, I'm happy to share the fruits of this effort with everyone.

Appreciate it,

Michael

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[tips] Memory research

2009-11-05 Thread Britt, Michael
Does anyone have a reference for those memory studies in which a)  
subjects were given a list of things to memorize in a short period of  
time and b) some subjects had a list of things that all belonged to a  
group (like animals or pointed objects) and c) subjects were asked if  
they saw an object which belonged to the group, but which was not  
actually on the list and finally, d) subjects claimed to have seen the  
object in the list?


Michael

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[tips] Listening to some great Psych Newsletters

2009-11-02 Thread Britt, Michael
 I don't know if everyone on TIPS also subscribes to Jonathan  
Mueller's Teaching Social Psych newsletter, but I do and I always  
find great articles there.  Also, if you don't already subscribe to  
Marianne Miserandino's excellent Personality Pedagogy newsletter, then  
I recommend that one also.


I always find links to interesting articles in these newsletters and I  
plan to listen to several of them this week.  Listen? you say?   
Well, I find that sometimes it's just easier to listen to a text-to- 
speech version of an article while on the way to work.  There are a  
number of ways to do this, but I put together this quick Jing video to  
show how I do this using an inexpensive program called Textcast:


http://screencast.com/t/Ivg1Ia9Q2


Could also be helpful to students too I think.  Thanks again to  
Jonathan and Marianne for the newsletters :


Teaching Social Psych newsletter: 
https://lists.noctrl.edu/sympa/info/socialpsy-teach

Personality Pedagogy newsletter: 
http://www.arcadia.edu/forms/pp_registration.asp

Michael

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Re: [tips] Ghost in the brain

2009-11-01 Thread Britt, Michael

Allan,

I'm afraid you're way off there.  That's not an arrow sticking out of  
the back of the image.  It is obviously an umbrella and this is  
clearly not a ghost but rather it is Mary Poppins.  Really!  I don't  
see how anyone can see anything different!  ;)



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On Nov 1, 2009, at 3:15 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:


Neurologist Joshua Klein:

To me it looked like a ghost. That's exactly what I thought it
was. At first I was thinking, Is this the angel of death?
http://tinyurl.com/yjcoxmm


I can discern a shadow image of a crouching dog to the left of the
ghost. There is an arrow apparently sticking out of the middle of its
back, but no doubt that's an accidental artefact of the imaging  
process.


Allen E.

-
From:   sbl...@ubishops.ca
Subject:Ghost in the brain
Date:   Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:43:28 -0400
Another illustration of our infinite capacity to find order in
disorder:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/10/ghost_in_the_brain_an
_appariti.html
or
http://tinyurl.com/yjcoxmm

(about that for you alone. The (thwarted) intent was to not
clutter up the list, so of course that's what I did. Fortunately,
there was nothing juicy there, and I resolved not to send yet
another e-mail explaining it, but it can piggy-back here. Reminds
me to be more careful).

Stephen
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[tips] Seligman's Explanatory Style

2009-10-30 Thread Britt, Michael
One of my favorite theories (which has now found a home in the  
positive psychology movement) is Seligman's ideas regarding the  
effects of your explanatory style (especially in your reaction to  
negative events) on your mood.  In the early days he talked about a  
negative style as one that is Internal (I'm stupid!), Stable (I'll  
never get this!) and Global (I'm going to fail at other things as  
well!).  Recently in his more popular books I see that he has changed  
these terms to Personal, Persistent and Pervasive.  Whatever you call  
them, I rather like the whole theory and certainly think it's worth  
teaching at the introductory level.  I checked a couple of intro books  
and to my surprise I found very little in-depth coverage of these  
ideas.   I found explanatory style covered briefly in the Personality  
chapter, and then in the Stress chapters of two other intro books.   
Too bad - for such a useful theory.  Why do you think it doesn't get  
more exposure?  Too much material to cover in one book I suppose.


Michael

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Re: [tips] Scary experiments

2009-10-30 Thread Britt, Michael
Based upon what I found after a careful review of the recent Milgram  
replication study (and other pubs), it is not true that participants  
claimed they were traumatized for life.



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On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Rick Froman wrote:

I think the debunking Stephen is asking about involved claims made  
on the 25 Scariest site including this sentence about the Milgram  
study: Later, many participants claimed they were traumatized for  
life after discovering that they were capable of such inhumane  
behavior. My understanding is that that did not happen.


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On 30 Oct 2009 at 15:41, Jim Clark wrote:


Hi

Here's a link to the 25 scary experiments, courtesy of Jeff Ricker  
on PESTs, and my comment on the

examples. ricopa.edu 30-Oct-09 12:21 PM

http://io9.com/5390389/25-of-the-scariest-science-experiments-ever-conducted



I was just going to complain that the author of that website,
Annalee Newitz, ripped off The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Oops! It seems the CHE got it from that website. What I clicked
on on the Chronicle site took me to her website but I didn't
notice. Good thing I didn't leave a nasty comment for Annalee.

Jim also said:


claims about at least some of the examples have
been debunked: e.g., Milgram experiment as noted by one
commenter


I thought that Milgram held up pretty well despite difficulties in
repeating it for ethical reasons. Perhaps Jim could elaborate on
this debunking.

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Re: [tips] Feedback on Psychology Today

2009-10-27 Thread Britt, Michael
If you're looking for articles that critically examine popular topics,  
you might try Skeptic or The Skeptical Inquirer magazines.  I always  
check those two magazines to see get their point of view.


Michael


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On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:26 AM, tay...@sandiego.edu wrote:

I tried to find the issue on line so I could see the articles for  
myself in the latest issue, but the online issue must be one back,  
which is extremely unusual in my experience, with commercial  
magazines. None of the articles in the September issue even vague  
alluded to any topics you mentioned. And I guess that says it all.  
Commercial magazines. I read a couple of the articles in the latest  
online issue and they were very poor in quality. There were no  
direct references to any scientific studies published in reputable  
journals. The test that one article did was to state, a study  
found... Even ladies' magazines do better than that!


I'd be extremely cautious. Ever since Psych Today was sold by the  
APA to a commercial enterprise the quality of information has been  
based on how well the issues will sell and not on any other primary  
standard. Everything else is secondary. Sales are number one. That  
doesn't mean that a quality piece doesn't get published; but quality  
of evidence is not what drives the publication.


In addition, anything that relates human behavior to astrology  
cannot be anything other than entertainment given the widespread  
knowledge that that is the best anyone can do with astrology. There  
is a great Penn  Teller BullShit episode on astrology--if you surf  
the Showtime website it might even be online. They have very many  
clips online from the show. I use several in class.


Annette

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 Original message 

Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:13:19 -0400
From: James K. Denson james.den...@vbschools.com
Subject: [tips] Feedback on Psychology Today
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu 



I am asking for feedback from the experts on the research/teaching  
value

of Psychology today.
This month's issue had, (in my humble High School Psychology teacher
opinion), great articles on sleep disorders and personality traits
correlated with astrological signs.
I know in the past many professionals have dismissed the research in
this publication.
Can any of you help me here?  On the surface this seems to be good
information that I can share with my students.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.


J. Kevin Denson
AP Psychology Teacher
Social Studies Department Chair
Kempsville High School
5194 Chief Trail
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Re: [tips] Schizophrenic or manic-depressive

2009-10-20 Thread Britt, Michael
I will add my vote of agreement to Ed and Don.  These posts are  
inappropriate and waste everyone's precious time.  If you can't keep  
your posts at a professional level then you don't belong on this list.


Michael Britt
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Steven Specht wrote:

 I concur. I wouldn't allow this in my classroom for more than two  
 sessions (it's disruptive... I don't see it as being related to free  
 speech at this point).

 On Oct 20, 2009, at 7:52 PM, Don Allen wrote:


 Thanks Ed-

 I second the request. There has to be a limit to this inane  
 trolling. Mischaracterizing people with mental illness does not  
 belong on a listserve like TIPS.

 -Don.

 - Original Message -
 From: Ed Callen
 Date: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:26 pm
 Subject: RE: [tips] Schizophrenic or manic-depressive
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

  Please, please, please Bill, TIPS moderator, see this as one
  last example of why this guy needs to be removed from this list.
  I know the current extinction strategy is in place, and I know
  Bill's comittment over the years to free speech, but there is no
  real value of this person to the teaching of psychology list,
  other than bringing up controversial issues to respond to. I
  have seen this and been part of this list since it began, and
  more good people have left the list because of him that have
  joined, and I have resisted responding, but there is so much
  good a list like this can do to have someone who has time on his
  hands ruin. We all know I think that his examples of questions
  A student asked me this... another faculty member did
  this... are all made up. We saw earlier that his adjunct
  status to a bunch of colleges was not true or exaggerated, so
  come on. We've got great people on this list with great minds
  and ideas, let's bring it to that level, rather than have it
  whither because of someone who is interested, imho, of reading
  his own posts and responses. This is the only list of its kind
  in our field, and I've hated to see it continue to deteriorate.
 
 
 
  
 
  From: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net]
  Sent: Tue 10/20/2009 6:59 PM
  To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
  Subject: [tips] Schizophrenic or manic-depressive
 
 
 
 
  I am trying to decide who I should have as a condo guest for the
  upcoming holiday season.
  If I get the schizophrenic,that person would probably look at
  the ocean for 8 hours and would not interrupt my day to day
  activities.On the other hand,if I get the manic-depressive,I
  would be forced to sing Handel's Messiah a couple of times and
  then imitate the hounds of Baskerville.
 
  Which one of these would generate more complaints from my Home
  owners association?
 
  Michaelomnicentric Sylvester,PhD
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[tips] Recent Research using Classical Conditioning?

2009-10-18 Thread Britt, Michael
  Dear Tipsters,

I haven't done an episode on classical conditioning so I'm looking  
around to see if there has been anything interesting on the topic.   
Just wondering if anyone had heard of any neat applications of  
classical conditioning in recent
research?

Michael

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Re: [tips] Recent Research using Classical Conditioning?

2009-10-18 Thread Britt, Michael
Michael,

There are lots of good examples of conditioning in our daily lives  
that are always interesting to hear about on this list, but in this  
case I'm rather more interested in recent research - and a study that  
most people would find interesting to hear about (not always easy to  
find)

Michael

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On Oct 18, 2009, at 2:53 PM, michael sylvester wrote:


 Must the recent application come from published research? what about  
 recent applications
 in current events?
 Michaelomnicentric Sylvester,PhD
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 Subject: [tips] Recent Research using Classical Conditioning?




  Dear Tipsters,

 I haven't done an episode on classical conditioning so I'm looking  
 around to see if there has been anything interesting on the topic.   
 Just wondering if anyone had heard of any neat applications of  
 classical conditioning in recent
 research?

 Michael

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Re: [tips] *Nature* on APA and clinical psychology

2009-10-15 Thread Britt, Michael
I just finished reading the Nature article on psychotherapy and here's  
my 2 cents: I taught Research Methods and Statistics for psychology  
majors for many years and as all know, students loathed the idea of  
taking the course.  They considered themselves people people and not  
scientists.  All teachers of methods and stats grapple with this  
issue.  But I'll leave this aside for a moment and address this issue  
instead: have you read a scientific article from a psychology journal  
recently?  Thank god we're starting to get past the passive voice and  
third person writing style (but only starting) which makes such  
articles so unnecessarily difficult and boring to read.  But even if  
you can get past the dry, boring writing in the Intro and Methods  
section, then you have to deal with the Results section.  Forget about  
the relatively straightforward t-test or anova.  Today's articles are  
filled with lengthy explanations of the most detailed statistical  
procedures imaginable (Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average  
anyone?).   I taught stats for many years and took a multivariate  
stats class in grad school and I can only begin to understand the  
typical results section of some of these articles.  And we expect  
people-people to connect with (or even want to read) a typical  
scientific article in our field?

When are we going to make psychological research more digestible for  
the average practitioner?  Maybe there is such a journal and I haven't  
heard of it?

Michael



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On Oct 15, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:




 Allen Esterson wrote:

 Clinical psychology at least has its roots in experimentation,

 Hmm. I wonder what you mean by that. There are many roots to what  
 has become clinical psychology, but the tap root (if I may extend  
 the metaphor) was a group of Boston physicians and neurologists  
 working with the Emmanuel Movement, a group of Boston clergy (one of  
 whom had been a student in Wundt's Leipzig lab) holding private  
 spiritual sessions (some talk, some prayer, probably some  
 lingering Mesmerism) with some of their congregation (see, e.g., 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Movement) 
 . The movement quickly spread to several other eastern US cities,  
 but eventually drew so much professional criticism that the  
 physicians and neurologists were forced to drop out and denounce it.  
 Still, the idea of talk therapy had been ignited. A few years later,  
 in 1909, Freud made his famous visit to Clark U.

 The best historical account of these events is probably given in  
 Eric Caplan's book _Mind Games_ (U. Cal, 1998). Eugene Taylor has  
 written about them as well (most accessibly in 2000,  
 Psychotherapeutics and the Problematic Origins of¨  Clinical  
 Psychology in America, American Psychologist,¨  55 (9), 1029-1033).

 The traditional story of Lightner Witmer having founded clinical  
 psychology is based on a misunderstanding of what he meant by that  
 phrase. What he invented in Philadelphia in the mid-1890s was much  
 more the basis of school psychology than of modern clinical  
 psychology.

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Re: [tips] Concept Map on Sexual Orientation

2009-10-09 Thread Britt, Michael
Cheryl,

I read the article by Carroll.  He makes a very interesting point.  I  
should point this out when I record the episode - which I plan to do  
this weekend.  If I have this right, what Carroll is saying is that in  
these kinds of studies where researchers are looking for some  
physiological difference between men and women (and homosexuals) when  
they find a difference that aligns with cultural stereotypes they are  
not as objective in their conclusions (nor do they follow up with  
continued research) as one would want them to be.  Do I have that right?

Michael


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On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:38 PM, Rickabaugh, Cheryl wrote:




 Hi, Michael.

 I'm impressed w/your concept map. At least at this writing (who  
 knows w/reviews), I simply cover the numerous physiological  
 correlates of sexual orientation w/a brief listing of findings,  
 emphasizing that they are simply correlates and that the pattern  
 does not seem to be consistent in terms of gender (lesbians versus  
 gay men) and ethnicity. My favorite reference is:

 Carroll, M. P. (1998). But fingerprints don’t lie, eh? Prevailing  
 gender ideologies and scientific knowledge. *Psychology of Women  
 Quarterly, 22*, 739-749.

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 I didn't see that in my reading, but I'll check out the reference you
 have below.  I think the whole idea of measuring body differences
 until you come up with something significant seems like a questionable
 research strategy.

 I also found one study that concluded that homosexual men have larger
 penises than heteros:

 The relation between sexual orientation and penile size, Anthony F
 Bogaert; Scott Hershlberger, Archives of Sexual Behavior; Jun 1999;  
 28.

 I'm not sure whether to mention this finding.  It was only one study
 and the topic of sexual orientation is controversial enough.  I don't
 knowthoughts?

 Michael


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 On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Mark A. Casteel wrote:

 
 
 
  Hi Michel. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under
  the impression that the index finger/ring finger ratio idea only
  seems to hold for white homosexuals (interesting).
 
  Source:  Dennis McFadden, Ph.D.,1 , 6 John C. Loehlin, Ph.D.,1 S.
  Marc Breedlove, Ph.D.,2
  Richard A. Lippa, Ph.D.,3 John T. Manning, Ph.D.,4 and Qazi Rahman,
  Ph.D. (2005) Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 341-356.
 
  At 12:38 PM 10/8/2009, you wrote:
  I'm putting together my notes for an upcoming episode on the  
 origins
  of sexual orientation.  The topic, of course, is huge, but I'm  
 going
  to try to provide a general overview of the various explanations -
  nature/nurture and in between - for sexual orientation.  I've got  
 my
  notes in a concept map which is starting to get out of hand.  Any
  thoughts/input/feedback appreciated (especially if anything really
  important is missing).  Here's the link to the map:
 
  http://bit.ly/sexualorientation
 
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[tips] Concept Map on Sexual Orientation

2009-10-08 Thread Britt, Michael
I'm putting together my notes for an upcoming episode on the origins  
of sexual orientation.  The topic, of course, is huge, but I'm going  
to try to provide a general overview of the various explanations -  
nature/nurture and in between - for sexual orientation.  I've got my  
notes in a concept map which is starting to get out of hand.  Any  
thoughts/input/feedback appreciated (especially if anything really  
important is missing).  Here's the link to the map:


http://bit.ly/sexualorientation

Michael

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Re: [tips] Concept Map on Sexual Orientation

2009-10-08 Thread Britt, Michael
Thanks Beth.  I tried to be thorough.  When it came to a point where  
the next article or chapter started repeating what the previous  
article/chapter said, then I knew it was time to stop and get   
feedback.  Quite a fascinating topic.

Michael

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On Oct 8, 2009, at 4:09 PM, Beth Benoit wrote:



 Michael,
 That's beautiful.  Very thorough!

 Beth Benoit

 On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Britt, Michael 
 michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com 
  wrote:
 I'm putting together my notes for an upcoming episode on the origins  
 of sexual orientation.  The topic, of course, is huge, but I'm going  
 to try to provide a general overview of the various explanations -  
 nature/nurture and in between - for sexual orientation.  I've got my  
 notes in a concept map which is starting to get out of hand.  Any  
 thoughts/input/feedback appreciated (especially if anything really  
 important is missing).  Here's the link to the map:

 http://bit.ly/sexualorientation

 Michael

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Re: [tips] Concept Map on Sexual Orientation

2009-10-08 Thread Britt, Michael
I didn't see that in my reading, but I'll check out the reference you  
have below.  I think the whole idea of measuring body differences  
until you come up with something significant seems like a questionable  
research strategy.

I also found one study that concluded that homosexual men have larger  
penises than heteros:

The relation between sexual orientation and penile size, Anthony F  
Bogaert; Scott Hershlberger, Archives of Sexual Behavior; Jun 1999; 28.

I'm not sure whether to mention this finding.  It was only one study  
and the topic of sexual orientation is controversial enough.  I don't  
knowthoughts?

Michael


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On Oct 8, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Mark A. Casteel wrote:




 Hi Michel. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under  
 the impression that the index finger/ring finger ratio idea only  
 seems to hold for white homosexuals (interesting).

 Source:  Dennis McFadden, Ph.D.,1 , 6 John C. Loehlin, Ph.D.,1 S.  
 Marc Breedlove, Ph.D.,2
 Richard A. Lippa, Ph.D.,3 John T. Manning, Ph.D.,4 and Qazi Rahman,  
 Ph.D. (2005) Archives of Sexual Behavior, 34, 341-356.

 At 12:38 PM 10/8/2009, you wrote:
 I'm putting together my notes for an upcoming episode on the origins
 of sexual orientation.  The topic, of course, is huge, but I'm going
 to try to provide a general overview of the various explanations -
 nature/nurture and in between - for sexual orientation.  I've got my
 notes in a concept map which is starting to get out of hand.  Any
 thoughts/input/feedback appreciated (especially if anything really
 important is missing).  Here's the link to the map:

 http://bit.ly/sexualorientation

 Michael

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Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-26 Thread Britt, Michael
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions regarding resesarch on food.   
Here's a list of most of them:

the delay of gratification studies with kids  marshmallows 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7LN96jEXHcfeature=popular 
)
Stanley Schachter's studies on the effects of external cues on eating
the recent aggression studies where the dependent variable is how much  
hot sauce people measure out to give to someone who hates hot sauce
popcorn (thanks Michelle for the pdf)
Mindless Eating
Older work where foods were colored and shaped in various ways--- 
purple mashed potatoes, etc and this presumably affected taste
Paul Rozin and others' work on disgust
Zellner has done a lot of research looking at food preferences in  
humans using food
Linda Bartoshuk's work on taste 
(http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3294_peppers.html 
)
There was the study (perhaps someone can help with me tha author) in  
which bowls of soup were rigged to automatically refill in order to  
see whether participants used their own feeling of fullness, or the  
height of the soup in the bowl, as the cue to stop eating
Why We Eat What We Eat by Elizabeth Capaldi
article from the Chicago Tribune about food and experiments (thanks to  
Jim Matiya)
false memory and food


As  always, TIPS is a great resource.  Deb - I'd love to take a look  
at your syllabus on the psych of food.

Thanks everyone!

Michael


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On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Deborah S Briihl wrote:


 There is a ton of research - I can forward you my syllabus on the  
 psych
 of food if you want.

 Britt, Michael wrote:


 I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land
 can help.  Do you recall any research studies involving food in any  
 way?

 Thanks,

 Michael


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[tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Britt, Michael
I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land  
can help.  Do you recall any research studies involving food in any way?


Thanks,

Michael


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Re: [tips] Psychological research involving food

2009-09-24 Thread Britt, Michael
Thanks everybody for all the suggestions.  I'm still checking them all  
out.  And by the way, my use of the word noodling was an  
unintentional pun on my part.  Leave it up to Gary to notice it.


PS: I can't believe I didn't think of the infamous marshmallow study!

Michael

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On Sep 24, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Gerald Peterson wrote:



You are noodling over food?  I am sure TIPS can provide a feast of  
possible references you may find to your taste.  GP





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Subject: [tips] Psychological research involving food

I'm noodling with an idea and I was wondering if anyone in tips land
can help.  Do you recall any research studies involving food in any  
way?


Thanks,

Michael


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Re: [tips] Do you remember this cartoon?

2009-09-22 Thread Britt, Michael
Just use a program like Snagit for PC (http://www.techsmith.com/) or  
Snapz Pro for Mac (http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/).   
You can capture the cartoon from the screen (at any size you like) as  
a jpg and then do whatever you want with it on your computer.

Michael

On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Frantz, Sue wrote:

 I'm not advocating violating copyright law, but merely giving  
 instruction on how to use some features of your computer for  
 whatever use you'd like.

 On the top right of your keyboard is a Print Screen key.  It's  
 probably abbreviated, something like PRTSC.

 Hitting that key will copy everything that's on your screen exactly  
 as you see it.  But it won't look like anything has happened.  Go to  
 PowerPoint (or whatever program you're using and paste.  Then crop  
 the image so that you only show the part you'd like.

 Tip.  If you are using Firefox, CTRL+ (that's the CTRL key and the +  
 key at the same time) will zoom in the page. CTRL- will zoom back  
 out.  CTRL-0 (CTRL and 0) will return the page to normal.


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 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
 Subject: Re: [tips] Do you remember this cartoon?

 The problem with New Yorker cartoons is that I can't figure out a  
 way to copy and paste into an overhead for class. They are copyright  
 protected to a degree I have not found in other places.

 Is there a trick I don't know about?

 Annette

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[tips] Politician's Wives

2008-03-16 Thread Britt, Michael
It seems to me that as much as people are talking about Elliot  
Spitzer these days, many people are talking just as much about the  
fact that his wife was standing by his side when he apologized and  
resigned.  The women I know have strong negative feelings about this  
and they all say that they wouldn't have stood next to him.  His wife  
looked pretty bad.  Is this just another example of how our culture  
expects women to support their man, or is there some other psychology  
going on here?

Michael

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[tips] Samaritan study follow-ups

2008-03-06 Thread Britt, Michael
I've always been a big fan of the study From Jerusalem to  
Jericho... samaritan study and I was thinking of doing a podcast  
episode on it.  That study was done in '73 and I've got a follow-up  
article that was published in '75 (by Greenwald, Does the Good  
Samaritan Parable Increase Helping?).  I just want to make sure  
I've covered all the bases.  Does anyone know of any other follow-up  
articles or studies that were done on this study?

Appreciate the help,

Michael

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Re: [tips] Psychological theories that are well known but useless and vice versa

2008-02-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Kahneman and Tversky - why didn't I think of that?  Very useful  
ideas.  Now there's an excellent example of should be more well  
known  Thanks Tim.

Michael


On Feb 16, 2008, at 10:24 PM, Shearon, Tim wrote:

 In the not well known but should be:
 Kahneman and Tversky  (heuristics, spent costs, etc)
 Post-decision dissonance (other cognitive dissonance effects)
 A lot of things in I/O psychology


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Re: [tips] Psychological theories that are well known but useless and vice ve...

2008-02-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Nancy,

I assumed Gary wanted to put Groupthink and the Zimbardo prison  
studies in the useful but not well known category.  Gary - what  
were you thinking here?

Michael

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On Feb 16, 2008, at 10:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:




 Groupthink and the Zimbardo prison study come most readily to  
 mind.  Gary

 OK...are these useless? Because they are well knownbut I would  
 beg to differ about their uselessness, especially since we've seen  
 the dynamics illustrated by both at work in government and foreign  
 policy decisions over the past 10 years or so.

 Nancy Melucci
 Long Beach City College
 Long Beach CA




 Delicious ideas to please the pickiest eaters. Watch the video on  
 AOL Living.

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Re: [tips] Psychological theories that are well known but useless and vice versa

2008-02-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Stephen,

You've given us a lot to chew on here.  I'm not at all familiar with  
Judith Rich Harris.  Guess I've got some reading to do.  Your  
nomination of overjustification theory is very interesting.  It  
certainly gets a lot of press from the textbooks.  Not only that,  
but also a front page story in this week's Education Week newspaper  
(Feb 13, 2008, vol 27 No. 23): Promises of Money Meant to Heighten  
Student Motivation.  After describing the different incentive  
programs that many schools are turning to, the writer of the article  
quotes Alfie Kohn (described as an education writer) who states  
that, Unfortuntately, the available research unequivocally shows  
that dangling incentives in front of kids isn't just ineffective, but  
actually counterproductive.  This debate is as old as the hills and  
perhaps that's because it is often presented in a black-and-white  
manner.   I think the issue here has many subtleties.  A couple years  
ago I used a text called Looking in Classrooms for my Educational  
Psych class and I thought Good and Brophy had an excellent chapter on  
these subtleties.  I'd recommend that chapter to anyone who wants to  
get his/her class into this debate.

However, it wasn't really my desire to get sidetracked on this  
topic.  Still, an interesting choice.  I'll take a look into Judith  
Harris' work.

Michael
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On Feb 17, 2008, at 4:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 In that category of well-known but useless, I'd nominate
 overjustification theory, the idea that reinforcing someone  
 (especially a
 child) for carrying out a task decreases intrinsic motivation to  
 perform
 the task,  that token rewards leads to token learning. Names such as
 Deci and Leeper figure prominently here. The idea that rewards impair
 learning has been enthusiastically taken up by the educational
 establishment who use it to warn of the supposed dangers of  
 reinforcement
 in the classroom. But it just ain't necessarily so.


Judith Rich Harris. Her first
crack at a theory of child development, initially in her prize-winning
1995 Psych Review paper, and then in her 1998 book The Nurture
Assumption was called Group Socialization Theory. She assembled
extensive evidence in support of the proposition that the shared family
environment, particular the contribution of the parents, was only of
limited importance to the development of the adult personality. Genetics
and the peer group counted for much more.


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Re: [tips] TIPS Member Listing

2008-02-13 Thread Britt, Michael
Yes, I saw that too.  Interesting.  I wonder what that's about?

Michael
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On Feb 13, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Rick Froman wrote:




 What's with the huge East Coast bias of TIPS?

 Rick

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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 10:33 AM
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
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 Sue, I love this new version of your page listing TIPS' members.  
 Thank you very much for taking the time to construct such an  
 attractive and useful resource.

 Miguel



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 Hi all,

 This is my semiannual announcement for additions (including  
 photos), removals, and changes to the TIPS Member Listing at:  
 http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips

 For new members, this is an announcement of the listing's  
 existence.  =)

 If you're accustomed to visiting the page, be prepared.  I've made  
 a major change.  In the process, I've updated several dead links.   
 If I've inadvertently changed something I shouldn't have -- or even  
 deleted you -- please let me know.

 Email me off list: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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[tips] Morton Hunt

2008-01-17 Thread Britt, Michael
I was reading over a section of Hunt's book: The Story of Psychology  
and really enjoying it (again).  I haven't been able to find a  
website for him.  Does anyone know how I might contact him?

Michael

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Re: [tips] Morton Hunt

2008-01-17 Thread Britt, Michael
Wow.  That's an interesting - and scary - service.  Yes, I found his  
address and phone number and all (and according to this site, he  
appears to be 87 years old).  Geez...and all I wanted to do was send  
him an email to tell him how much I like his book.

Michael

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On Jan 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, FRANTZ, SUE wrote:

 on Hunt, Gladwyne, PA


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[tips] Purpose and longevity

2008-01-10 Thread Britt, Michael
I wonder if anyone would be able to steer me in the right direction.   
I was reading an article in National Geographic about the factors  
that enable some people to live very long lives.  Besides exercise  
and eating right of course, the article mentions that some of these  
people have very strong religious beliefs (perhaps more generally,  
they have a strong sense of purpose).  The article made me think of  
Rollo May, but beyond that, does anyone know of any research on this  
link between a sense of purpose and a long life?

Michael

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[tips] Mashups and psychological research

2007-12-22 Thread Britt, Michael
I've been doing a little noodling with mashups lately and I put  
together a video some tipsters might find interesting.  In case you  
aren't familiar with mashups, the idea is that they allow you to  
combine different websites and information sources in ways that are  
most useful to you.  In the video I show how RSS works, and then show  
you a yahoo pipe I made that mashes up a whole bunch of psychology  
blogs with flickr and the yahoo search engine.  The mashup allows you  
to search on any term in all of these sources at once, so that you  
can get the latest talk about your topic (from the blogs), images on  
your topic (from flickr) and your typical search engine results on  
the topic.  Pretty neat I think.  Here's the link, link me know what  
you think:

http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2007/12/22/mashups-and-psychological- 
research/

Michael

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Re: [tips] 7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe - Yahoo! News

2007-12-21 Thread Britt, Michael
Chris,

Interesting mythbusting, but I thought that there was something to  
that turkey making you drowsy issue.  You mean it's not true that l- 
tryptophan has something to do with that?  I thought it did.

Michael

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On Dec 21, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:

 Your holiday mythbusting:

 We do NOT use only 10 percent of our brains.
 You should NOT drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
 Fingernails and hair do NOT grow after death.
 Shaved hair does NOT grow back faster, coarser or darker.
 Reading in dim light does NOT ruin your eyesight.
 Eating turkey does NOT make you drowsy.
 Mobile phones are NOT dangerous in hospitals (though they are still  
 annoying).

 http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20071221/sc_livescience/ 
 7medicalmythsevendoctorsbelieve

 Happy holidays!
 --
 Chris Green
 York U.
 Toronto, Canada

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Re: [tips] teaching resources - online video

2007-12-13 Thread Britt, Michael
Excellent resources here Jon.  Thanks so much.  I signed up for your  
newsletter.'


Michael Britt
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Re: [tips] Recommendations for a low level stats/methods text with case studies?

2007-12-04 Thread Britt, Michael
JIm,

I've always been partial to An Introduction to Statistics and  
Research Methods: Becoming a Psychological Detective by Davis and  
Smith (Prentice Hall).  It doesn't contain any case studies, but the  
authors have a good writing style.

Michael

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On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Jim Dougan wrote:

 TIPsters,

 I have agreed (perhaps against my better judgement) to teach a low- 
 level stats plus methods course - essentially for Psych minors  
 who have up until now been taking our regular two-course stats/ 
 methods sequence.

 I am looking for a low-level combined stats/methods text,  
 preferably with case studies.  Alternatively, I could use a stand- 
 alone case study book (similar to the old Johnson and Solso text -  
 now out of print).

 Any recommendations?

 -- Jim Dougan







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[tips] Article on Kitty Genovese in American Psychologist

2007-11-28 Thread Britt, Michael
I just wanted to thank those on the list - especially to Annette  
Taylor and Blaine Peden - who alerted us to the article in the  
September issue of American Psychologist which reported not just the  
facts behind the Kitty Genovese case, but also the implications of  
this study on the research (or lack thereof) on the influence of  
groups on individual helping behavior.  In case you're going over  
this topic now or soon, below is a link to my latest podcast episode  
in which I review some of the major findings of this article and then  
talk briefly about the influence of this parable.  There are also  
some web links on my site for further research on this topic.

  It's probably too late in the semester now, but this article would  
have made for a great student paper or presentation.  Maybe next  
semester.  Anyway, thanks again.  Here's the link:

http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2007/11/25/episode-36-the-myth-of-the- 
kitty-genovese-story/

Michael

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Re: [tips] faculty reading for pleasure? Would you Kindle?

2007-11-20 Thread Britt, Michael
I bought one of these ebook readers a few years ago and it was okay.   
A little heavy so hard to read in bed.  The kindle looks lighter.   
But $400!  No way.  I agree that Amazon needs to sell this cheaper  
and charge a little more for the ebooks themselves.  Much too expensive.


Michael

Psychology In Everyday Life
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On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:23 AM, Marc Carter wrote:


 I read a lot on my Palm Pilot; I got it when I was living in New York
 and had a two-hour (each way) commute on trains and subways and  
 busses,
 and have used it ever since.  I can carry about War and Peace, The
 Brothers Karamazov, an unabridged dictionary, and a ton of other books
 along with email, a web browser (if there's a wifi hotspot nearby),  
 and
 a tiny Scrabble game.

 I am *never* bored

 m


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 From: Dennis Goff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 10:16 AM
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
 Subject: RE: [tips] faculty reading for pleasure? Would you Kindle?

 I am with you on this Ken. I do have a stack of books that need to be
 read both at home (mostly fiction) and here in the office. The Kindle
 would make it more comfortable to carry both stacks around with me,
 especially if I could load my textbooks there too. But I want to  
 try one
 of these things for a while before someone spends $400 dollars on it.

 Dennis

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 Professor of Psychology
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 Subject: Re: [tips] faculty reading for pleasure? Would you Kindle?



 Jeff Bezos, of Amazon.com fame, has introduced a new e-book, Kindle.
 How many readers on the list are tempted?

 I would like to try one for a day.  But $400 and then you still  
 need to
 buy the books! I don't think it will make my Christmas list.


 Ken

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Re: [tips] podcasts in psychology

2007-10-03 Thread Britt, Michael
...and if you don't mind, I'd like to give - I know, another - plug  
for my podcast, The Psych Files.   I just released another video  
episode, this one on the Gestalt principles of perception and I think  
it really came out well (in my own humble opinion of course).  After  
the recent stories about people seeing the Virgin Mary in a lemon  
slice and a swastika made by buildings seen from the air, I just  
couldn't resist.  Also, did you know that scientists have found  
another face on Mars?

Here's the link:

http://www.thepsychfiles.com/2007/10/02/episode-31-lemon-slices-and-a- 
new-face-on-mars-gestalt-principles-at-work/

Michael


Michael Britt
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On Oct 2, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Miguel Roig wrote:

 Hey folks, I found the following site that features podcasts on
 psychology material that may be suitable for intro. students. I listen
 to the one on classical conditioning and reinforcement and thought  
 they
 were really good as introductory or review material

 http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podcasts/13898

 Miguel


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[tips] Psychology and Pavarotti

2007-09-19 Thread Britt, Michael
As we all know, The King of the High C's died recently and I'm  
planning on doing a podcast episode which is somewhat related to  
him.  One of the reasons I recently asked people on this list about  
visualization techniques is that I was planning on focusing on the  
visualization techniques that singers are often given by their  
teachers to help them relax and focus while singing.

I was talking about this with a friend and he said that what always  
perplexed him about singers is that they seem to disembody their  
voices by referring to their voice as the voice or the gift.  Why  
is that?  He asked.  Frankly, I don't know.  It's an interesting  
observation though.  Any thoughts on this?  I don't know if there's  
an interesting  psychological answer or perspective on the tendency  
for singers to do this, but before dismissing it I thought I'd ask  
this list.  I wonder if other talented people do this as well.  Do  
baseball pitchers refer to their pitching arm as The Arm.  Any  
thoughts?  If so, why would this be?

Thanks,

Michael

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Re: [tips] Effectiveness of visualization techniques?

2007-09-16 Thread Britt, Michael
Thanks so much to everyone for all these suggestions for sources on  
visualization.  Great leads!  Thanks all.

Michael

Michael Britt
Host of The Psych Files
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On Sep 16, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Jim Clark wrote:

 Hi

 Stuart's description of how he remembered lines for a play reminded me
 that there is a literature on the subject of such learning.  It does
 overlap somewhat with the issue of mental practice and it is quite  
 clear
 that imagery and other kinds of concretization enhances such cognitive
 skills.  See

 http://www.memory-key.com/Seniors/senior_research_training.htm#Actors

 http://undergrad.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~clintner/ 
 science_behind_memorizing_script.htm

 Take care
 Jim


 James M. Clark
 Professor of Psychology
 204-786-9757
 204-774-4134 Fax
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 Stuart McKelvie [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16-Sep-07 11:08:54 AM 
 Dear Tipsters,

 Further to Jim's citation of Alan Paivio there is a vast literature on
 the effects of mental practice (usually visual imagery) on
 performance. For an easy-to-read summary see the texts by Wann or Cox
 (listed below).


 Meta analyses have been conducted in the 1980s and 1990s and show that
 mental practice can enhance performance under certain conditions. To
 quote Driskell et al. (1994) the effectiveness of mental practice was
 moderated by the type of task, the retention interval between practice
 and performance, and the length or duration of the mental practice
 intervention.

 I have cited some other articles below but hope you will excuse a
 personal anecdote. I had a part in a play a couple of years ago and
 found that I had difficulty learning lines. In the end I mastered them
 and can report that I engaged in many private visual rehearsals of the
 scenes, including actions, in order to make the dialogue meaningful  
 and
 to link it to other events(deep processing). Usually I imagined myself
 from the first person point of view (internal imagery). Internal vs
 external imagery has itself been a topic of debate in the visual  
 imagery
 literature.

 Sincerely,

 Stuart


 References

 Tests

 Cox, R. H. (2007). Sport psychology, 6th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill
 Wann, D. L. (1997). Sport psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
 Hall.

 Meta Analyses

 Feltz, D. L.,  Landers, D. M. (1983). The effects of mental practice
 on motor skill learning and performance.: A meta-analysis. Journal of
 Sport Psychology, 5, 25-57.
 Driskell, J. E., Copper, C.,  Moran, A. (1994). Does mental practice
 enhance performance? Journal of Applied Psychology, 79, 481-492.

 Other

 Grouis, G. (1992). The effect of mental practice on diving  
 performance.
 International Journal of Sport Psychologyu, 23, 60-69.

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 Stuart J. McKelvie, Ph.D., Phone: (819)822-9600, Extension 2402
 Department of Psychology,  Fax: (819)822-9661
 Bishop's University,
 2600 College Street,
 Sherbrooke (Borough of Lennoxville),
 Qušbec J1M 0C8,
 Canada.

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 -Original Message-
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 Sent: September 15, 2007 5:14 PM
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
 Subject: Re: [tips] Effectiveness of visualization techniques?

 Hi

 Allan Paivio, proponent of dual-coding theory, summarized some of the
 potential benefits of mental practice (imagery) and (I think) some
 findings up to 1985. See reference below.  There are numerous  
 studies of
 this question, so you should be able to find more recent examples of
 actual research and review articles with a literature search.  If  
 memory
 serves correct, the effectiveness of imagery for actual skill
 development depends on such factors as the nature of the activity  
 (e.g.,
 substantial cognitive demands or not), level of training of  
 practitioner
 (complete novice or some experience), and the like.

 Paivio, A. (1985). Cognitive and motivational functions of imagery in
 human performance. Canadian Journal of Applied Sport Sciences, 10,
 22S-28S.

 Take care
 Jim

 James M. Clark
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 Does anyone know of any studies that have been done to determine
 whether or not visualization techniques actually work?  For example,
 if baseball players visualize themselves hitting the ball, or public
 speakers visualize their speech going really well - that type of
 thing.

 Michael
 www.thepsychfiles.com
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