RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
When Bem came to give a talk at Dickinson he said that he had been investigating paranormal events for many years. He said it was a long interest of his and he always worked with undergraduate students so as to not harm the career of graduate students. Surely you would not keep testing hypotheses if you didn't think they were likely or possibly true. Also, just like his precognition paper is probably not true his theory of sexual orientation is not true (something he alluded to when he gave his talk). But of course it is the nature of the scientific process that others can replicate (or fail to replicate) your findings. Now if we could just get journals to accept replications studies and null results! Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem Hi Part of the problem with Bem's advice to tell a story (i.e., make up a story?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the tell a story model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal phenomena as claimed in the article. After all, isn't the story better if he was really a skeptic and then was forced to change his mind, rather than that he set out to demonstrate something that he already believed? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Jeffry Ricker, PhD drjeffryric...@gmail.com 06-Jun-12 7:20 pm Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012 ...Even in the context of a career of irreverence, there was little to suggest that Bem would end up defending the possibility of extrasensory perception, or ESP, which most mainstream scientists consider unworthy of serious inquiry. Through most of his career, he was as dubious about telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his colleagues. Then data changed his mind FULL TEXT AT: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=18207 or send a blank email to leave-18207-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797fn=Tl=tipso=18233 or send a blank email to leave-18233-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@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=18277 or send a blank email to leave-18277-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
We may not need traditional journals to 'publish' replications, http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6076/1558 . However, u nless, the topic is hot or controversial (like Bem's parapsychological work), who is going to take the time to replicate all this work, especially if it is going to be 'dumped' in these types of depositories? And fo r purposes of promotion and tenure, or even hiring, what value will an attempt at replication have? Miguel - Original Message - From: Marie Helweg-Larsen helw...@dickinson.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:18:57 AM Subject: RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem When Bem came to give a talk at Dickinson he said that he had been investigating paranormal events for many years. He said it was a long interest of his and he always worked with undergraduate students so as to not harm the career of graduate students. Surely you would not keep testing hypotheses if you didn't think they were likely or possibly true. Also, just like his precognition paper is probably not true his theory of sexual orientation is not true (something he alluded to when he gave his talk). But of course it is the nature of the scientific process that others can replicate (or fail to replicate) your findings. Now if we could just get journals to accept replications studies and null results! Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem Hi Part of the problem with Bem's advice to tell a story (i.e., make up a story?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the tell a story model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal phenomena as claimed in the article. After all, isn't the story better if he was really a skeptic and then was forced to change his mind, rather than that he set out to demonstrate something that he already believed? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Jeffry Ricker, PhD drjeffryric...@gmail.com 06-Jun-12 7:20 pm Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012 ...Even in the context of a career of irreverence, there was little to suggest that Bem would end up defending the possibility of extrasensory perception, or ESP, which most mainstream scientists consider unworthy of serious inquiry. Through most of his career, he was as dubious about telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his colleagues. Then data changed his mind FULL TEXT AT: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=18207 or send a blank email to leave-18207-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797fn=Tl=tipso=18233 or send a blank email to leave-18233-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: miguelr...@comcast.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce629n=Tl=tipso=18277 or send a blank email to leave-18277-466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce...@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=18280 or send a blank email to leave-18280-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. ..Scott From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem When Bem came to give a talk at Dickinson he said that he had been investigating paranormal events for many years. He said it was a long interest of his and he always worked with undergraduate students so as to not harm the career of graduate students. Surely you would not keep testing hypotheses if you didn't think they were likely or possibly true. Also, just like his precognition paper is probably not true his theory of sexual orientation is not true (something he alluded to when he gave his talk). But of course it is the nature of the scientific process that others can replicate (or fail to replicate) your findings. Now if we could just get journals to accept replications studies and null results! Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem Hi Part of the problem with Bem's advice to tell a story (i.e., make up a story?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the tell a story model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal phenomena as claimed in the article. After all, isn't the story better if he was really a skeptic and then was forced to change his mind, rather than that he set out to demonstrate something that he already believed? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Jeffry Ricker, PhD drjeffryric...@gmail.com 06-Jun-12 7:20 pm Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012 ...Even in the context of a career of irreverence, there was little to suggest that Bem would end up defending the possibility of extrasensory perception, or ESP, which most mainstream scientists consider unworthy of serious inquiry. Through most of his career, he was as dubious about telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his colleagues. Then data changed his mind FULL TEXT AT: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=18207 or send a blank email to leave-18207-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797fn=Tl=tipso=18233 or send a blank email to leave-18233-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: slil...@emory.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2fn=Tl=tipso=18277 or send a blank email to leave-18277-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is
[tips] Roger Boisjoly, Thiokol engineer of Challenger fame
My alumni magazine (University of Massachusetts Lowell) reported that the Thiokol engineer who tried to convince NASA that it was too cold for Challenger to launch, died recently. He was a graduate of UMass Lowell's Mechanical Engineering. Social psychology texts use the Challenger explosion as yet another example of groupthink. He argued, again and again, that the low temperatures the night before the launch could prove to be a fatal problem, but the decision was made to go ahead, with obvious disastrous consequences. When Reagan's commission placed the blame for the faulty O-rings on Morton Thiokol, the company CEO said if he'd known of the potential problem, we'd never have given clearance for the launch. Jack McDonough, author of the article in UMass Lowell Magazine, writes: Boisjoly's honesty and courage came at a price. After testifying before the commission, he was shunned by company colleagues and managers and removed from space project assignments. He suffered from depression and took medical leave for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. The sole gesture of support came from Sally Ride, the first woman in space. She gave him a hug after he testified. 'She was the only one,' he later said. 'The only one.'... Boisjoly resigned from Morton Thiokol soon afterward, started his own business in forensic engineering and delivered a series of more than 300 lectures about organizational behavior, ethics and professionalism to corporate, professional and academic audiences. Hailed as a 'whistle blower' for his efforts to avert the Challenger tragedy, he received a host of accolades... Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18282 or send a blank email to leave-18282-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:14:17 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. My dissertation advisor, Marvin Levine, who did his original research on hypothesis theory (Harry Harlow was one of his advisors) and would go on to do research in spatial problem solving (the area of my dissertation). He was also a somewhat unconventional person (i.e., flake) because he had he practiced yoga and studied Buddhism before it was fashionable. I was somewhat concerned about how these activities might influence his view of science until we both were exposed to some research involving PSI/telepathy. I was extremely skeptical of the whole business but wasn't sure what Marv's reaction was. I asked what he thought and his response impressed. Paraphrasing from a potentially faulty memory, Marv said: |We know an awful lot about energy from physics and the big problem |here is the person either doesn't know physics or how what he's talking |about violates what we know about physics. Regardless of the results, |he still has to explain how his results fit into what we know is true and |valid in physics. Bem did not go into much detail about physics in his JPSP article but when I looked at some of Bem's writing in the parapsychology journals, he went into detail about the mechanisms (i.e., how the future affects the present). I think the real question is how does Bem's explanation and theory are inconsistent with current physical theory. Does anyone know of any physicist's critique of Bem's theory or model? If Bem relies upon empirical results for his beliefs, shouldn't be taking into account what the standard results are in physics? -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=18283 or send a blank email to leave-18283-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
The Skeptical Inquirer (http://www.csicop.org/) has a series of articles about l'affaire Bem, including argument with psychologist James Alcock. I don't think that any physicists were involved, though. For what it's worth, I knew Darryl slightly when he was a graduate student (we had the same advisor; Harlan Lane, at the time) -- he seemed sane then. And in classic science fiction, BEM referred to Bug Eyed Monsters. On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Palij wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:14:17 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. My dissertation advisor, Marvin Levine, who did his original research on hypothesis theory (Harry Harlow was one of his advisors) and would go on to do research in spatial problem solving (the area of my dissertation). He was also a somewhat unconventional person (i.e., flake) because he had he practiced yoga and studied Buddhism before it was fashionable. I was somewhat concerned about how these activities might influence his view of science until we both were exposed to some research involving PSI/telepathy. I was extremely skeptical of the whole business but wasn't sure what Marv's reaction was. I asked what he thought and his response impressed. Paraphrasing from a potentially faulty memory, Marv said: |We know an awful lot about energy from physics and the big problem |here is the person either doesn't know physics or how what he's talking |about violates what we know about physics. Regardless of the results, |he still has to explain how his results fit into what we know is true and |valid in physics. Bem did not go into much detail about physics in his JPSP article but when I looked at some of Bem's writing in the parapsychology journals, he went into detail about the mechanisms (i.e., how the future affects the present). I think the real question is how does Bem's explanation and theory are inconsistent with current physical theory. Does anyone know of any physicist's critique of Bem's theory or model? If Bem relies upon empirical results for his beliefs, shouldn't be taking into account what the standard results are in physics? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: pkbra...@hickorytech.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900bn=Tl=tipso=18283 or send a blank email to leave-18283-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18285 or send a blank email to leave-18285-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
Addendum: Bem's theories clearly violate classical (Newtonian) mechanics. However, contemporary physics (quantum theory - string theory) seems to be in an 'anything is possible' mode, so I'm not sure that a working physicist would make an a priori judgement on precognition. On Jun 9, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Paul Brandon wrote: The Skeptical Inquirer (http://www.csicop.org/) has a series of articles about l'affaire Bem, including argument with psychologist James Alcock. I don't think that any physicists were involved, though. For what it's worth, I knew Darryl slightly when he was a graduate student (we had the same advisor; Harlan Lane, at the time) -- he seemed sane then. And in classic science fiction, BEM referred to Bug Eyed Monsters. On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Palij wrote: On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:14:17 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. My dissertation advisor, Marvin Levine, who did his original research on hypothesis theory (Harry Harlow was one of his advisors) and would go on to do research in spatial problem solving (the area of my dissertation). He was also a somewhat unconventional person (i.e., flake) because he had he practiced yoga and studied Buddhism before it was fashionable. I was somewhat concerned about how these activities might influence his view of science until we both were exposed to some research involving PSI/telepathy. I was extremely skeptical of the whole business but wasn't sure what Marv's reaction was. I asked what he thought and his response impressed. Paraphrasing from a potentially faulty memory, Marv said: |We know an awful lot about energy from physics and the big problem |here is the person either doesn't know physics or how what he's talking |about violates what we know about physics. Regardless of the results, |he still has to explain how his results fit into what we know is true and |valid in physics. Bem did not go into much detail about physics in his JPSP article but when I looked at some of Bem's writing in the parapsychology journals, he went into detail about the mechanisms (i.e., how the future affects the present). I think the real question is how does Bem's explanation and theory are inconsistent with current physical theory. Does anyone know of any physicist's critique of Bem's theory or model? If Bem relies upon empirical results for his beliefs, shouldn't be taking into account what the standard results are in physics? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: pkbra...@hickorytech.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900bn=Tl=tipso=18283 or send a blank email to leave-18283-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: pkbra...@hickorytech.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900bn=Tl=tipso=18285 or send a blank email to leave-18285-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18286 or send a blank email to leave-18286-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
What might fit in here is something that I stumbled across yesterday in reading about open instruction initiatives at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh. Mischel talked in an APS Observer editorial about The Toothbrush Problem which describes that many psychologists tend to use their own pet theories instead of others' much like a person always uses their own toothbrush. That is, you would never use another person's toothbrush, right? The idea is that this creates fragmentation and lack of progress in psychology because we spend too much time trying to create our own theory rather than really building on other solid work. Mischel suggests that this is somewhat due to the pressures of the tenure process at large research universities. Read it here: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2430 Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. ..Scott From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem When Bem came to give a talk at Dickinson he said that he had been investigating paranormal events for many years. He said it was a long interest of his and he always worked with undergraduate students so as to not harm the career of graduate students. Surely you would not keep testing hypotheses if you didn't think they were likely or possibly true. Also, just like his precognition paper is probably not true his theory of sexual orientation is not true (something he alluded to when he gave his talk). But of course it is the nature of the scientific process that others can replicate (or fail to replicate) your findings. Now if we could just get journals to accept replications studies and null results! Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Associate Professor l Department of Psychology Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:13 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem Hi Part of the problem with Bem's advice to tell a story (i.e., make up a story?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the tell a story model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal phenomena as claimed in the article. After all, isn't the story better if he was really a skeptic and then was forced to change his mind, rather than that he set out to demonstrate something that he already believed? Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Jeffry Ricker, PhD drjeffryric...@gmail.com 06-Jun-12 7:20 pm Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow the crowd. by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012 ...Even in the context of a career of irreverence, there was little to suggest that Bem would end up defending the possibility of extrasensory perception, or ESP, which most mainstream scientists consider unworthy of serious inquiry. Through most of his career, he was as dubious about telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his colleagues. Then data changed his mind FULL TEXT AT: http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=18207 or send a blank email to
RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
I believe that physicist Victor Stenger of UC-Boulder has written about such issues. See: http://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Quantum-Victor-J-Stenger/dp/1573920223 ...Scott From: Jeffry Ricker [jeff.ric...@sccmail.maricopa.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 12:56 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Paul Brandon pkbra...@hickorytech.netmailto:pkbra...@hickorytech.net wrote: contemporary physics (quantum theory - string theory) seems to be in an 'anything is possible' mode, so I'm not sure that a working physicist would make an a priori judgement on precognition. I tried to see if an actual working physicist had written something showing that quantum field theory was agnostic with respect to psi phenomena. When I entered the following keywords quantum physics psi into Google, I hit an unexpected roadblock--psi is a term used in quantum mechanics: The wavefunction which describes the state of a particle is often denoted by the letter Y (spelled 'psi' and pronounced 'sigh'). It is a complex function which is defined everywhere in space... (Felder Felder, 2003; http://snipurl.com/23ve8x2). Anyways, I recall reading critiques written by physicists showing why quantum field theory cannot be used to explain at least some of the specific claims that have been made about psi. I also wonder if there are any physicists prepared to claim that quantum field theory contravenes the laws of thermodynamics. If not, then I'm not certain that spooky action at a distance or other quantum phenomena are relevant. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. That's why I posted the link to the article. When the JPSP article was first published, I read in several places that he had been studying paranormal phenomena for years. It sounded to me a bit like the claims made by Freud's followers that he had to be 'pulled kicking and screaming' to the conclusions that led to the development of the psychoanalytic approach. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2fn=Tl=tipso=18288 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18288-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-18288-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18290 or send a blank email to leave-18290-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
In the Skeptical Inquirer, among other places! And if you search on 'quantum' and 'precognition' you will get some hits. On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: I believe that physicist Victor Stenger of UC-Boulder has written about such issues. See: http://www.amazon.com/Unconscious-Quantum-Victor-J-Stenger/dp/1573920223 ...Scott From: Jeffry Ricker [jeff.ric...@sccmail.maricopa.edu] Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 12:56 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Paul Brandon pkbra...@hickorytech.net wrote: contemporary physics (quantum theory - string theory) seems to be in an 'anything is possible' mode, so I'm not sure that a working physicist would make an a priori judgement on precognition. I tried to see if an actual working physicist had written something showing that quantum field theory was agnostic with respect to psi phenomena. When I entered the following keywords quantum physics psi into Google, I hit an unexpected roadblock--psi is a term used in quantum mechanics: The wavefunction which describes the state of a particle is often denoted by the letter Y (spelled 'psi' and pronounced 'sigh'). It is a complex function which is defined everywhere in space... (Felder Felder, 2003; http://snipurl.com/23ve8x2). Anyways, I recall reading critiques written by physicists showing why quantum field theory cannot be used to explain at least some of the specific claims that have been made about psi. I also wonder if there are any physicists prepared to claim that quantum field theory contravenes the laws of thermodynamics. If not, then I'm not certain that spooky action at a distance or other quantum phenomena are relevant. On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edu wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. That's why I posted the link to the article. When the JPSP article was first published, I read in several places that he had been studying paranormal phenomena for years. It sounded to me a bit like the claims made by Freud's followers that he had to be 'pulled kicking and screaming' to the conclusions that led to the development of the psychoanalytic approach. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: slil...@emory.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2fn=Tl=tipso=18288 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18288-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: pkbra...@hickorytech.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a64900bn=Tl=tipso=18290 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18290-13438.3b5166ef147b143fedd04b1c4a649...@fsulist.frostburg.edu Paul Brandon Emeritus Professor of Psychology Minnesota State University, Mankato pkbra...@hickorytech.net --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18291 or send a blank email to leave-18291-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Evolution/Brits tight upper lip
The expression is *stiff* upper lip, cross-cultural dude, not tight. It is not historically British, but is a product of the Victorian era. The phrase may have an American origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff_upper_lip Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-06-09, at 1:02 PM, mjchael sylvester wrote: I have searched the literature and am trying to find out if there is any evolutionary significance to the tight upper lip of the Brits.It could be a common behavioral trait that could be traced back to the Saxon and Celtic civilization.As the cross-cultural dude on Tips,tracing physical and behavioral traits to points of origin have well been documented,for examples,the Mutiny on the Bounty descendants in the Pacific,eye contact behavior of the Bahamasand a certain ethnic group in Africa,the preponderance of red hair in Scotland(except forStuart McKelvie) and the frugality of the Scots.But the evoultionary origins of the tight upper lip behavior of the Brits remain a mystery to me.Not even Desmond Morris,the British dude,who was once the curator of the London zoo and for some reason got into Human ethology with works like The Human Zoo,Naked Ape, and Manwatching,said anything about this aspect of British behavior or is it behaviour. Michael 'omnicentric' Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18289 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18289-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@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=18292 or send a blank email to leave-18292-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Paul Brandon pkbra...@hickorytech.net wrote: In the Skeptical Inquirer, among other places! And if you search on 'quantum' and 'precognition' you will get some hits. Yes, some of these were the articles I was vaguely recalling. It's been a long time since I've read them--my interests have changed markedly over the years (I'm not even sure I'm the same person I was 10 years ago)--and I couldn't remember specifics. On Jun 9, 2012, at 12:05 PM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: I believe that physicist Victor Stenger of UC-Boulder has written about such issues Yes, he was the physicist whose name I was trying to remember. Thanks. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18293 or send a blank email to leave-18293-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:14:17 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data changed his mind following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as exceedingly dubious. Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the closet, so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem go off the rails? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. Emily Nussbaum's article on Bem's Exotic become Erotic theory may also be relevant given that it also appears at about this time; see: http://www.emilynussbaum.com/lingua_franca/1998/05/does_the_exotic_become_erotic.php --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18294 or send a blank email to leave-18294-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
Do we know exactly when Bem did the studies that were published in JPSP? If he'd been doing studies for decades he could eventually have gathered enough type 1 errors to result in the publication we saw in JPSP. Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Michael Palij wrote: Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the closet, so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem go off the rails? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18295 or send a blank email to leave-18295-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. On related, but not so personal note, I went to see the mentalist who goes by the stage name Banachek last night. He was originally trained, as a teenager, by James Randi to fool psychologists at Washington U. who were conducting scientific investigations of psi phenomena into believing he was the real deal. It worked; they certified him. Then Randi and he (and one other plant) held a press conference to expose what they had done. Banachek's current show, Project Alpha, is all about deconstructing telepathy. He demonstrates a bunch of classic telepathy and telekinesis phenomena, showing them to be tricks. He also does the famous 19th-century Spirit Cabinet, Uri Geller-style fork-bending/breaking, and a past-lives regression (with two audience members who say they believe in past lives). His ongoing commentary includes mentions of a bunch of philosophers and psychologists who tried to deomonstrate psi phenomena, such as Henry Sidgwick, Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Metzger, Duke psychologist Karl Zener (who invented the psi cards with the circle, square, star, plus, wavy lines). No mention of William James though. He does all of this so apparently effortlessly that some True Believers have claimed he is deluded about not having true psychical powers. :-) All in all, a very entertaining evening. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-06-09, at 3:54 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: Do we know exactly when Bem did the studies that were published in JPSP? If he'd been doing studies for decades he could eventually have gathered enough type 1 errors to result in the publication we saw in JPSP. Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Michael Palij wrote: Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the closet, so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem go off the rails? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18295 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18295-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@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=18296 or send a blank email to leave-18296-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. The phrase, The lady doth protest too much, methinks, usually means that a person asserts something so fervently that others infer that the person actually believes the opposite--in this context, that we actually believe Bem's claims to be well-supported by the evidence he presented. You surely can't mean that, so I'm not certain what you're trying to communicate. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18297 or send a blank email to leave-18297-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
Speaking for Chris Green (dare I do that without seeming to attempt to channel his thoughts?? heh, heh, just a little psi-humor), I have to believe that he's trying to convey that this topic is being beaten to death. (But maybe that's just because it conveys what I'm thinking.) My gmail counter indicates that there have been 22 posts on this topic. (Sorry to add mine, but maybe I can be the epilogue that ends this thread.) Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Jeffry Ricker jeff.ric...@sccmail.maricopa.edu wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. The phrase, The lady doth protest too much, methinks, usually means that a person asserts something so fervently that others infer that the person actually believes the opposite--in this context, that we actually believe Bem's claims to be well-supported by the evidence he presented. You surely can't mean that, so I'm not certain what you're trying to communicate. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- 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=18297 or send a blank email to leave-18297-13105.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=18298 or send a blank email to leave-18298-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
He does a super show. We managed to have him visit us a few years ago and I did his Intro, but this was before his current Project Alpha show, which sounds fascinating! Would be a good show for a History and Systems class? G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jun 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. On related, but not so personal note, I went to see the mentalist who goes by the stage name Banachek last night. He was originally trained, as a teenager, by James Randi to fool psychologists at Washington U. who were conducting scientific investigations of psi phenomena into believing he was the real deal. It worked; they certified him. Then Randi and he (and one other plant) held a press conference to expose what they had done. Banachek's current show, Project Alpha, is all about deconstructing telepathy. He demonstrates a bunch of classic telepathy and telekinesis phenomena, showing them to be tricks. He also does the famous 19th-century Spirit Cabinet, Uri Geller-style fork-bending/breaking, and a past-lives regression (with two audience members who say they believe in past lives). His ongoing commentary includes mentions of a bunch of philosophers and psychologists who tried to deomonstrate psi phenomena, such as Henry Sidgwick, Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Metzger, Duke psychologist Karl Zener (who invented the psi cards with the circle, square, star, plus, wavy lines). No mention of William James though. He does all of this so apparently effortlessly that some True Believers have claimed he is deluded about not having true psychical powers. :-) All in all, a very entertaining evening. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-06-09, at 3:54 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: Do we know exactly when Bem did the studies that were published in JPSP? If he'd been doing studies for decades he could eventually have gathered enough type 1 errors to result in the publication we saw in JPSP. Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Michael Palij wrote: Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the closet, so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem go off the rails? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18295 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18295-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=18296 or send a blank email to leave-18296-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@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=18299 or send a blank email to leave-18299-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] COGNITION: Scientific knowledge suppresses but does not supplant earlier intuitions
Hi all, A very interesting paper to be published in Cognition: Shtulman, A., Valcarcel, J. (in press). Scientific knowledge suppresses but does not supplant earlier intuitions. Cognition. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.005 ABSTRACT When students learn scientific theories that conflict with their earlier, naïve theories, what happens to the earlier theories? Are they overwritten or merely suppressed? We investigated this question by devising and implementing a novel speeded-reasoning task. Adults with many years of science education verified two types of statements as quickly as possible: statements whose truth value was the same across both naïve and scientific theories of a particular phenomenon (e.g., ‘‘The moon revolves around the Earth’’) and statements involving the same conceptual relations but whose truth value differed across those theories (e.g., ‘‘The Earth revolves around the sun’’). Participants verified the latter significantly more slowly and less accurately than the former across 10 domains of knowledge (astronomy, evolution, fractions, genetics, germs, matter, mechanics, physiology, thermodynamics, and waves), suggesting that naïve theories survive the acquisition of a mutually incompatible scientific theory, coexisting with that theory for many years to follow. LINK: http://faculty.oxy.edu/shtulman/documents/2012b.pdf -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18301 or send a blank email to leave-18301-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Stats software in grad school..
SAS and JMP, at no cost to ECU. Minitab, cost not known to me. SPSS, at a cost that is making us reconsider making it available. No longer can students get a free copy for home use – but it is not all that expensive for them to purchase. Cheers, [Description: Karl L. Wuensch]http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm From: MiguelRoig [mailto:miguelr...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 4:35 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Stats software in grad school.. Actually, and for the reasons you state, we are reconsidering SPSS at this time. Miguel From: Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edumailto:marc.car...@bakeru.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2012 1:35:32 PM Subject: [tips] Stats software in grad school.. Hi, All -- A little unscientific poll for you. We consider our program to be a grad-school-prep program, and have been doing pretty heavy instruction in SPSS, thinking that when the students get to grad school that's the package they're most likely to encounter. That was certainly my experience a few years ago, but I'm wondering if we're thinking right, today. Should we move to a different stats package, or is SPSS still pretty common. Since IBM bought it it's gone through some changes and seemed headed much more toward business applications, but this last year they seemed to realize that schools were a large part of their clientele, and have made pricing a little more reasonable (although still hideously expensive). Here the departments that want that package buy it (IT decided to cut its budget by pushing things off onto departments), and so I want to do right by my students, but have to think thrifty. So, the poll: for those of you who work in departments that have grad programs, what stats software packages are available to your students? Thanks! m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Behavioral and Health Sciences College of Arts Sciences Baker University -- The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto (e-mail) is sent by Baker University (BU) and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify Baker University by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: miguelr...@comcast.netmailto:miguelr...@comcast.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce629n=Tl=tipso=18210 or send a blank email to leave-18210-466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-18210-466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: wuens...@ecu.edumailto:wuens...@ecu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b3534420en=Tl=tipso=18216 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18216-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-18216-13060.c78b93d4d09ef6235e9d494b35344...@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=18302 or send a blank email to leave-18302-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu inline: image001.jpg
Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem
It connotes a general defensiveness about the topic being discussed. Do I think that (especially experimental) psychologists are (still) defensive about anyone even asking questions about telepathy under the guise of psychological research? You bet your sweet bippy (for those who are old enough to remember Laugh In). Bem did some research. I have no reason to believe he faked anything. He got a bunch of marginally significant effects, often having to resort to one-tailed tests. They failed to be replicated, and a more reasonable Bayesian analysis by Wagenmakers showed the alleged effects were not big enough to be worth talking about anyway. Next? Chris ... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo On 2012-06-09, at 4:52 PM, Jeffry Ricker jeff.ric...@sccmail.maricopa.edu wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. The phrase, The lady doth protest too much, methinks, usually means that a person asserts something so fervently that others infer that the person actually believes the opposite--in this context, that we actually believe Bem's claims to be well-supported by the evidence he presented. You surely can't mean that, so I'm not certain what you're trying to communicate. Best, Jeff -- - Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ - Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18297 or send a blank email to leave-18297-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@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=18303 or send a blank email to leave-18303-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Banachek
Banachek's Project Alpha would be a good show for a History systems and class if the course covered the long and interesting battle over whether psychical research would or would not be included in the new psychology. Most such courses and textbooks ignore (one is tempted to say suppress) this episode. Chris ... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo On 2012-06-09, at 5:47 PM, Gerald Peterson peter...@svsu.edu wrote: He does a super show. We managed to have him visit us a few years ago and I did his Intro, but this was before his current Project Alpha show, which sounds fascinating! Would be a good show for a History and Systems class? G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jun 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Y''know, guys, the BemBash-alooza is getting a little methinks-thou-doth-protest-too-much-ish now. On related, but not so personal note, I went to see the mentalist who goes by the stage name Banachek last night. He was originally trained, as a teenager, by James Randi to fool psychologists at Washington U. who were conducting scientific investigations of psi phenomena into believing he was the real deal. It worked; they certified him. Then Randi and he (and one other plant) held a press conference to expose what they had done. Banachek's current show, Project Alpha, is all about deconstructing telepathy. He demonstrates a bunch of classic telepathy and telekinesis phenomena, showing them to be tricks. He also does the famous 19th-century Spirit Cabinet, Uri Geller-style fork-bending/breaking, and a past-lives regression (with two audience members who say they believe in past lives). His ongoing commentary includes mentions of a bunch of philosophers and psychologists who tried to deomonstrate psi phenomena, such as Henry Sidgwick, Gestalt psychologist Wolfgang Metzger, Duke psychologist Karl Zener (who invented the psi cards with the circle, square, star, plus, wavy lines). No mention of William James though. He does all of this so apparently effortlessly that some True Believers have claimed he is deluded about not having true psychical powers. :-) All in all, a very entertaining evening. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-06-09, at 3:54 PM, Paul C Bernhardt wrote: Do we know exactly when Bem did the studies that were published in JPSP? If he'd been doing studies for decades he could eventually have gathered enough type 1 errors to result in the publication we saw in JPSP. Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Michael Palij wrote: Just another comment on the above: Bem has a website which can be accessed at: http://dbem.ws/ On it, Bem has a list of his publications, organized chronologically and in other groups. If one examines the chronological list, Bem's first publication involving PSI don't appear until 1990; see: http://dbem.ws/pubs.html#1990 He does have an 1989 book review of a book on parapsychology but nothing on parapsychology or the ganzfeld experiments before that (it appears the first ganzfeld experiment paper was published in 1994). So, if Bem was doing PSI work circa 1978-1982, why was he in the closet, so to speak, about his work in parapsychology? What happened around 1990 to make Bem go off the rails? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18295 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-18295-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: peter...@svsu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd94bn=Tl=tipso=18296 or send a blank email to leave-18296-13445.e3edca0f6e68bfb76eaf26a8eb6dd...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=18299 or send a blank email to leave-18299-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@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=18304 or send a blank email to leave-18304-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
