Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima

[michael sylvester]

Christopher DMike P:  Intra-species aggression is more common but inter-species
aggression is rare in the evolutionary paradigm.It is probably more significant 
with political,social,and economic implications to aggress against one's own 
species.Let us assume that the major racial classifications are different 
species,fighting within groups could be expected but fighting between races and 
subsets of races should be rare(ideological differences based on 
religion,language and so on are special cases).
Actually there is only race that has a penchant for attacking other races, 
making warfare on virtually all continents on the planet, grabbing territories 
undere the rubrics of social Darwinism,manifest destiny,intellectual 
superiority,and imperialism
(or as the Texas Board of education would prefer"expansionism").

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima

[Mike Palij]

On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:11:43 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote:
>This is noted evidence that whites are capable of being the most 
>aggressive and destructive of evolutionary human species. 

Actually, in terms of all time greatest mass murderer, you have
to go with Mao Zedong.  Quoting from the Wikipedia entry on him:

|Conversely, Mao's social-political programs, such as the Great 
|Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are blamed for costing 
|millions of lives, causing severe famine and damage to the culture, 
|society and economy of China. Mao's policies and political purges 
|from 1949 to 1976 are widely believed to have caused the deaths 
|of between 50 to 70 million people.[2][3][4] Since Deng Xiaoping 
|assumed power in 1978, many Maoist policies have been abandoned 
|in favour of economic reforms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_zedong

Some have estimated the number of deaths attributable to Mao
as high as 100 million but such numbers are hard to confirm.

It should be noted that, with respect to Japan,  the allied forces in 
their Potsdam Declaration (July 26, 1945) had requested Japan's 
unconditional surrender. Japan's Supreme Council for the Direction 
of the War refused and this was a key factor in deciding to drop the
atomic bombs as well as the Russian invasion of the Japanese puppet 
state Manchukuo in China on August 9,  after the bombing of Nagasaki.
This led the Emperor Hirohito to surrender which he would announce
to the Japanese people on August 15 on the radio. This was to be 
an amazing event because mythology held that the Emperor was a 
divine being and few people had access to him.  But now they would 
be able to hear their Emperor's voice for the first time.  

It was expected that the Emperor would announce the surrender 
but in Japanese culture surrender was considered to be an incredibly 
dishonorable act (a point that was emphasized by the Japanese military 
and propaganda apparatus). How could the nation remove the dishonor?
The traditional way was to commit suicide in one form or another
(e.g., fighting to the death).  Would the Emperor ask everyone to
commit suicide?
.
Akira Kurosawa in his book "Something Like An Autobiography"
recounts the anxious waiting for the Emperor's announcement. He
was listening with others with the expectation that the Emperor would 
call for the "Honorable Death of the 100 Million". Kurosawa wrote 
that he was ready to commit suicide but had agreed with some friends 
to go over to the ministry office that was in charge of film censorship 
and kill the bastards that had given them such a hard in getting their 
wartime movies approved.

As it turned out, Kurosawa didn't have to commit murder or suicide
that day.  But if the Emperor had requested it, it would probably have
been the largest mass suicide in world history.

Kurosawa's book is available on books.google.com and he uses the
phrase "Honorable Death of the Hundred Million" if you're searching.

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


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[tips] Are you seeing red?

[michael sylvester]

The pop media is reporting that women (globally) are attracted to men who wear 
red.The women apparently make the attribution that red indicates wealth.

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima

[michael sylvester]

This is noted evidence that whites are capable of being the most aggressive 
and destructive of evolutionary human species.


Michael
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RE: [tips] Criminal Mind Reading: Pseudoscience Or Next Great Grant Opportunity?

[Lilienfeld, Scott O]

Ah, yes, my political science colleague Courtney Brown brings up some very old 
memories.  See the link below for a piece (now 14 years old) by yours truly in 
an Emory publication...it did not exactly endear me to Brown, as you can well 
imagine (although to give him his due, he has been cordial to me in our few 
subsequent interactions).

http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1996/September/ERsept.9/9_9_96first_person.html

...Scott


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

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

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

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

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

- Zen Buddhist text
  (slightly modified)




-Original Message-
From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:45 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Mike Palij
Subject: [tips] Criminal Mind Reading: Pseudoscience Or Next Great Grant 
Opportunity?

An article on the www.Time.com website reports on a study that
was recently published in the journal Psychophysiology on using the
P300 wave as the basis for identifying the presence of guilty knowledge
of an event, such as the plans for a terrorist attack;  see:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2009131,00.html?iid=tsmodule

Interviews with the authors of the research article show that there
is great hope for the procedure (why it might even be better than
using a polygraph!) as well as acknowledging that there are a number
of kinks to work out.  As one indicator of the "validity" of this
research, it is receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
That will come as cold comfort to anyone who has seen the movie
"The Men Who Stare At Goats" (and even less comfort to those
who have read Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare At Goats --
it was decided that the movie would be a feel good comedy even
though Ronson's nonfiction book has very definite feel bad components
such as how the "First Earth Battalion" helped to train one of the
9/11 hijackers and was related to the remote viewing work by Emory U's
Courtney Brown which in turn led to the Heaven's Gate mass suicide;
For First Earth Battalion, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
For Courtney Brown, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brown_%28researcher%29
For Heaven's Gate, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
When Ronson interviewed Brown about Heaven's Gate, Brown
appeared to distance himself from the group.  A refrain that Brown
used was: "I'm an academic", meaning that he couldn't held responsible
for what non-academics did with what he said or promoted.
For some reason the phrase "I'm an academic" elicited in my
memory the phrase "I'm a professional" used by the kidnappers
and criminals in the movie "Man on Fire".

Oh, one last feel bad item, the use of Barney the dinosaur's "I Love You"
song in torturing Iraqi detainees).

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



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[tips] Criminal Mind Reading: Pseudoscience Or Next Great Grant Opportunity?

[Mike Palij]

An article on the www.Time.com website reports on a study that
was recently published in the journal Psychophysiology on using the
P300 wave as the basis for identifying the presence of guilty knowledge
of an event, such as the plans for a terrorist attack;  see:
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2009131,00.html?iid=tsmodule

Interviews with the authors of the research article show that there
is great hope for the procedure (why it might even be better than
using a polygraph!) as well as acknowledging that there are a number
of kinks to work out.  As one indicator of the "validity" of this
research, it is receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
That will come as cold comfort to anyone who has seen the movie
"The Men Who Stare At Goats" (and even less comfort to those
who have read Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare At Goats --
it was decided that the movie would be a feel good comedy even
though Ronson's nonfiction book has very definite feel bad components
such as how the "First Earth Battalion" helped to train one of the
9/11 hijackers and was related to the remote viewing work by Emory U's 
Courtney Brown which in turn led to the Heaven's Gate mass suicide;
For First Earth Battalion, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
For Courtney Brown, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brown_%28researcher%29
For Heaven's Gate, see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29
When Ronson interviewed Brown about Heaven's Gate, Brown
appeared to distance himself from the group.  A refrain that Brown
used was: "I'm an academic", meaning that he couldn't held responsible
for what non-academics did with what he said or promoted.
For some reason the phrase "I'm an academic" elicited in my
memory the phrase "I'm a professional" used by the kidnappers
and criminals in the movie "Man on Fire". 

Oh, one last feel bad item, the use of Barney the dinosaur's "I Love You" 
song in torturing Iraqi detainees).

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



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RE: [tips] humans and sponges

[Paul C Bernhardt]

Most funny thing I've read in a long time! Thanks!

Paul C. Bernhardt
Department of Psychology
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, Maryland



-Original Message-
From: Wuensch, Karl L [mailto:wuens...@ecu.edu]
Sent: Fri 8/6/2010 6:40 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] humans and sponges
 
Those of in academe are even more closely related to the sea squirt:

>From CONSCIOUSNESS EXPLAINED, by Daniel Dennett, p. 177
 
"The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching
for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make
its home for life.  For this task, it has a rudimentary
nervous system.  When it finds its spot and takes root, it
doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! (It's rather
like getting tenure.)"

Cheers,
 
Karl W.

-Original Message-
From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [mailto:slil...@emory.edu] 
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 4:32 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] humans and sponges

Hi All - Although it's perhaps not a traditional "psychology" finding per se, I 
found this report fascinating, humbling, and in a certain strange way, 
comforting - perhaps because it makes me feel more connected to nature (perhaps 
not coincidentally, it was published in Nature).  I'll probably share this 
intriguing tidbit of information with my intro psychology students next 
semester.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100806/hl_afp/australiasciencegeneticssponge


...Scott


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

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

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

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

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

- Zen Buddhist text
  (slightly modified)





-Original Message-
From: Michael Britt [mailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:46 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] The citation for this study?

I was sent the following email and asked if I knew who conducted the study.  It 
sounds familiar but I can't track it down.  Anyone know who conducted this:

> About 1 1/2 years ago, I remember reading an article that described a
> groundbreaking meeting between a psychologist and others in the
> psychological community. The meeting, as I understand it, took place in a
> movie theater.  Once the audience of psychologists was seated, the house
> lights dimmed and, in short time, smaller, individual lights (like Christmas
> lights?) began flashing on the stage as music was pumped into the theater.
> After a few minutes the psychologists in the audience became impressed when
> they noticed the lights were blinking perfectly to the music.  In reaction
> to the choreographed light display, audible "laughter" was even noted during
> the event.  Once the song had finished, 2 more songs played...each with
> varying degrees of excitement.  This seemingly impressed the audience as the
> lights changed their patterns to match the changing tempos and "feels."
>
>
> When the light show finally finished the audience happily clapped...though
> they weren't quite sure what the point of the meeting was. Then, the head
> psychologist stepped up to his lectern, leaned up to his microphone and
> confessed to everyone in the theater that the lights were not choreographed
> at all.  They were blinking randomly.


Michael Britt
mich...@thepsychfiles.com
http://www.ThePsychFiles.com
Twitter: mbritt





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[tips] Random Thought: China Diary 9, What Do You Do

[Louis E. Schmier]

Dear Dairy, Sunday, May 20.  Short and sweet tonight.  I wanna exercise beyond 
doing push-up and ab crunches, but it's almost impossible to go on my pre-dawn 
morning meditative walks.  I go out, take a few deep breaths and whatever is 
hanging in the polluted air makes my throat scratchy and my  lungs think feline 
claws are tearing at its alveoli.  So, in you, diary, I guess I finally figured 
out another way to nurture myself.  As a sidebar, each day we all need  to 
nourish our spirit, to feel intellectually rested, emotionally refreshed, 
spiritually renewed, and physically relaxed.  I guess you're my newly 
discovered China reenergizing and balancing quiet time.  I'll hit the pre-dawn 
streets when I get back to the States.  Doubt if I keep up the talking with you.

Anyway, I was asked today in a store and about something I always get asked 
here or back home, "What do you do?"  Wouldn't it be neat if people asked each 
other instead, "What do you offer?"  Now, that's a question which might make 
someone stop, think, and reflect.  I think my answer to that question would be 
that of the servant teacher.   "I offer unconditional hope, love, faith, 
support, encouragement, and the desire to make a difference in each student's 
life."   That would be so much more interesting and meaningful, as well as 
cause the questioner to pause, than just saying a bland, "I'm a history 
professor ."

Make it a good day

-Louis-


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Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima

[Allen Esterson]

>Actually, the British government's apology for covering up
>the actions of their soldiers in Northern Ireland recently came
>close.  But as I recall, the apology was for the coverup that
>was found.  (I could be wrong about that.)

Beth: For the record, the apology was for the appalling (and 
disastrous) killing of 13 innocent civilians on 30 January 1972:

Prime Minister David Cameron addressing the House of Commons: "What 
happened on Bloody Sunday was both unjustified and unjustifiable."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10320609

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
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Re: [tips] Reminder of This Day In History: Hiroshima
Beth Benoit
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:20:23 -0700
I found this sentence in the Christian Science Monitor particularly
interesting:

Some Japanese still want an apology for the atomic bombings of 
Hiroshima and
Nagasaki...

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0806/Hiroshima-65-years-later-US-attends-ceremony-but-offers-no-apology

An apology for an act of war is a concept I don't think I've heard of 
often.
 Should there be?  Who should apologize?

Actually, the British government's apology for covering up the actions 
of
their soldiers in Northern Ireland recently came close.  But as I 
recall,
the apology was for the coverup that was found.  (I could be wrong about
that.)

So, what do you all think about the necessity for, or expectation of, an
apology for an act of war?

Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire



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