[tips] Researchers Behaving Badly, Part 999
Okay, I know that I'm citing a Murdoch rag, the NY Post, but it appear to be the first one with this story about a researcher in cardiology who, in response to losing a hospital fellowship, stole research materials and, for good measure, switched research rats around in their cages. Here is the Post story: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/what_rat_mad_scientist_lab_vengeance_6DI6pXNNs1BRhlXKFzGUGO Here is the NY Times take on the matter: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/02/doctor-accused-of-crimes-against-mice-and-lab/ In other news, and what must come as blow to sufferers of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/CFIDS), is the news that a researcher who promoted the view that the xenotropic murine leukima virus related virus (XMRV) was a possible cause of CFS/CFIDS has been arrested in connection with this research. This is a complicated situation and one should read the details to understand what was/is going on. Medscape is one source for this story; see: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/754423 The journal Science has been covering this story; with one story here: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/details-emerge-of-the-criminal.html?ref=ra and http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/11/cfs-researcher-reportedly-surren.html I'm sure that the popular media with further confuse the issues in both cases. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14594 or send a blank email to leave-14594-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Who's more trustworthy: atheist or rapist?
You should have seen the face on the Postal Worker when I asked for the atheist Christmas stamps rather than the religious ones. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:40 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: According to this new study they're tied for last place, behind Christians, Muslims, Jews, feminists and homosexuals. And that's in Canada. I don't think they like atheists any better in the Benighted States. See: Will, G. et al (2011). Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 101(6), Dec, 1189-1206 Note that the study is shamelessly contrived. They might have contrasted atheists with used car salesmen or even, for that matter, psychologists, and gotten similar results. But nothing makes for sensational headlines like a comparison with rapists. And some rapists deeply resent the association with atheists. abstract at:. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/101/6/1189/ MS proof copy here: http://tinyurl.com/7vhm8cf University of British Columbia press release here: http://tinyurl.com/7fuh9t5 CTV report at: http://tinyurl.com/7lmmett (CTV had to disable commenting because they were so offensive. Aren't discussions of religion fun?). National Post: http://tinyurl.com/6s8b8f4 Stephen Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca - --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=14596 or send a blank email to leave-14596-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14597 or send a blank email to leave-14597-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Who's more trustworthy: atheist or rapist?
Oh Beth, leave it to you to enhance Second Order Learning among the beaurocrats; think what that question did to their sense of community? Joann From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com] Sent: Sat 12/3/2011 8:50 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Who's more trustworthy: atheist or rapist? You should have seen the face on the Postal Worker when I asked for the atheist Christmas stamps rather than the religious ones. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:40 AM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote: According to this new study they're tied for last place, behind Christians, Muslims, Jews, feminists and homosexuals. And that's in Canada. I don't think they like atheists any better in the Benighted States. See: Will, G. et al (2011). Do you believe in atheists? Distrust is central to anti-atheist prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol 101(6), Dec, 1189-1206 Note that the study is shamelessly contrived. They might have contrasted atheists with used car salesmen or even, for that matter, psychologists, and gotten similar results. But nothing makes for sensational headlines like a comparison with rapists. And some rapists deeply resent the association with atheists. abstract at:. http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/psp/101/6/1189/ MS proof copy here: http://tinyurl.com/7vhm8cf University of British Columbia press release here: http://tinyurl.com/7fuh9t5 CTV report at: http://tinyurl.com/7lmmett (CTV had to disable commenting because they were so offensive. Aren't discussions of religion fun?). National Post: http://tinyurl.com/6s8b8f4 Stephen Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca http://ubishops.ca/ - --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=14596 or send a blank email to leave-14596-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: jje...@barstow.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13010.76185584223b2f7b9f3a91a2f9913135n=Tl=tipso=14597 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-14597-13010.76185584223b2f7b9f3a91a2f9913...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14598 or send a blank email to leave-14598-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.eduwinmail.dat
[tips] info:History of Psych
When discussing Lashley's search for the engram, I would often describe it as testing a connectionist or associationist theory of learning as opposed to a more Gestaltist view. Of course, Lashley's laws of mass action equipotentiality are decidedly Gestaltist in flavor. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/ Husband, father, grandfather, bluegrass fiddler, banjoist biopsychologist... in approximate order of importance --- Subject: info:History of Psych From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:43:11 -0500 X-Message-Number: 1 Was there ever a school of psychology referrred to as connectionism? I am aware that learning theory utilized the term stimulus-response connections but that was probably a general term.Or am I thinking more of Estes and Guthrie learning theories? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14601 or send a blank email to leave-14601-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Are Jews born smart?
My neighbor-an immigrant from Uzbekistan- seems to believe that jews are born smart.She lived under the old Sovietr Union and was a professor at the Univrsity in Taskent. She also knows little and misguided about the Cuban missile crisis.And did not know that Che Guevara had a Russian girlfriend named Tania Feedback requested. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14603 or send a blank email to leave-14603-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Is there
a Psychology of Atheism or would that issue be subsumed under the Psychology of Religion? Michael --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14604 or send a blank email to leave-14604-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Re: [tips] Is there
I attended Div 36 (spirituality and religion) confefrence once and athiesm did not surface as a topic John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Coordinator, University Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 Sent from my U.S. Cellular Android device - Reply message - From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net Date: Sat, Dec 3, 2011 3:27 pm Subject: [tips] Is there To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14606 or send a blank email to leave-14606-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Is there
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:27:40 -0800, Michael Sylvester wrote: |a Psychology of Atheism or would that issue be subsumed under the Psychology of |Religion? To Which John Kulig wrote on Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:02:29 -0800: I attended Div 36 (spirituality and religion) confefrence once and athiesm did not surface as a topic A few points: (1) I'd wager that people interested in a psychology of atheism would be interested in it because they are interested in discrediting atheism as a system of belief. As it turns out, this is only half right. (2) Paul Vitz of NYU somewhere along the line became a born again Catholic and instead of focusing on experimental psychology began to focus on the psychology of religion. He has written on this topic and one of his books is Faith of the Fartherless: The Psychology of Atheism which is available on Amazon; see: http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Fatherless-Psychology-Paul-Vitz/dp/1890626252 I'll leave it to the interested reader to determine the intellectual quality of Vitz's work and the extent of influence of Vitz's work on the scientific psychological community. (3) Bob Altemeyer, who developed the Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) scale and did several decades of survey research on authoritarianism and its relationships to other variables, has also had an interest in the psychology of religion. He and Bruce Hunsberger wrote a book about atheism which is available on Amazon and one examine it here: http://www.amazon.com/Atheists-Groundbreaking-Study-Americas-Nonbelievers/dp/1591024137/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt I have more confidence in scientific research of Altemeyer but that might be because I'm familiar with his other work. (4) Given that atheists are relatively few in the U.S. right now, one might have to put in a lot of effort to do valid psychological research on them. This might be a topic of interest to some but one hopes that it is a scientific interest and not an ideological/political one. I'm sure there are more rich conservatives who would provide money for research showing that atheism is psychologically bad (evil) than there are rich liberals who would provide money for research on the benefits of atheism. But this follows from my understanding of Altemeyer's research on authoritarianism. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=14607 or send a blank email to leave-14607-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
