[tips] AHSWER ONLY TWO

[michael sylvester]

Compare and contrast
Robin Williams' depression
and
St.John of the Cross ' Dark night of the soul'

How do events in Ferguson,Missouri support Loftus & Loftus eyewitness testimony 
research?

michael

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Re: [tips] Bridge on the River Kwai

[John Kulig]

Can't remember Richard Attenborough in The Bridge Over the River Kwai ... 
(perhaps we are thinking of William Holden or Sir Alex Guinness?). But a great 
movie and yes he was a great actor, described as a champagne socialist ... the 
best kind. 

== 
John W. Kulig, Ph.D. 
Professor of Psychology 
Coordinator, Psychology Honors 
Plymouth State University 
Plymouth NH 03264 
== 

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Sir Richard Attenborough gone but not forgotten. 
michael 
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[tips] Bridge on the River Kwai

[michael sylvester]

Sir Richard Attenborough gone but not forgotten.
michael
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[tips] Special Section On Vaccines in PNAS

[Mike Palij]

Some Tipsters may be interested in several articles that appear
in the August 26, 2014 issue of PNAS which cover several topics
on vaccines -- all of which are free.  Here's the link to article that
introduces this section:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/12282.full
Here's a link to an article on the history of vaccination:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/12283.full
Here's a link to an article on the value of vaccination:
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/34/12313.full
There are four remaining articles.  Here's a link to the
table of contents for the issue (there are other articles that may be
of interest, such as the first rabies vaccination and whether hurricanes
with female names are deadlier than hurricanes with male
names -- you'd think this would be easy to determine but think again).

NOTE: PNAS now links to posts on PubPeer for articles that
appear to have problems; see the Turin et al article on
"Electron spin changes during general anesthesia in Drosophilia".
It's a real nail biter. ;-)

-Mike Palij
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RE: [tips] Biological/Physiological Psychology & Behavioral Neuroscience

[Marc Carter]

I'm very late to this party (got sick).

It seems to me that biological psych is a much broader field than behavioral 
neuroscience.  But perhaps that's just  how I've come to teach them …

m

From: Gerald Peterson [mailto:peter...@svsu.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 3:04 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] Biological/Physiological Psychology & Behavioral 
Neuroscience










Carol, I thought the FUN group sounded interesting. I asked a psych colleague 
here in the college of Health and Human Services if he was familiar with it. 
Gulphe is Jeffrey Smith, and he wrote back quickly. He is the current 
president of Fun and attended the summer conference of FUN with one of our 
biology faculty and also one of our clinical neuropsych faculty. And so it 
goes

G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D
Psychology@SVSU


On Aug 22, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Carol DeVolder 
mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com>> wrote:






My take on this is that biological psychology or physiological psychology as a 
fairly broad term that encompasses most species; behavioral neuroscience (or 
more simply neuroscience) does this as well, however the term is simply a 
sexier version. This (or these) discipline(s) study everything from cell bio 
(e.g., neurotransmitters, glia, neurocytology) with a definite biochemistry 
underpinning. Neuropsychology, on the other hand, involves the relationship 
between biological mechanisms and human behaviors (for the most part). Language 
in primates, affect in human and non-human animals, neural plasticity, recovery 
of function--all are part of this, but the emphasis is on "people." An offshoot 
of this is the APA division 40, Clinical Neuropsychology.

Personally, I think much of it has to do with the attractiveness of saying "I 
am a neuroscientist" rather than "I am a biopsychologist." Both may mean the 
same, but one sounds a whole lot jazzier than the other.

My department is crafting an advertisement for a new position--coming soon--and 
we have been wrestling with this type of wording. Some schools have 
interdisciplinary neuroscience majors that emphasize philosophy as well, with 
courses like philosophy of the mind, and consciousness. We are a department 
that deals with people, we don't have space for animal labs, and our students 
who go to grad school tend to go on to programs either in clinical psychology, 
physical therapy, or allied health fields. Our position will reflect our 
emphasis on the psychology part of it. A helpful organization is Faculty for 
Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN), and Annette, you may find some help with your 
question within that organization http://www.funfaculty.org/drupal/

Happy Friday!
Carol (undercover--AKA, Carol)

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Annette Taylor 
mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu>> wrote:
Words change...usage changes...but people sometimes have a hard time changing.

We currently have a search underway for a biological psychologist. It would 
seem that the concept of a biological psychologist is outdated and that the 
proper search might be for a behavioral neuroscientist. But there are people in 
our department who insist that the perspectives are different and that we 
really want a biological psychologist--someone trained in a psychology 
department and not someone trained for example, in a biology department or even 
an interdisciplinary department. Someone whose focus is primarily on 
behavior--not necessarily human--but definitely behavior and not something like 
the molecular level. So a person could study "learning and memory" at a more 
global behavioral level or at a finer tuned level in terms of brain structures, 
or a even finer tuned level yet at the molecular level. I think that the 
argument among some (I don't have this perspective so I'm trying to be fair to 
those who do) is that is that once you get down to cellular levels and below 
you are no longer a biological "psychologist."

Is there any sense among tipsters as to any "real" difference in what a 
traditional biological psychologist might bring to a department as opposed to a 
behavioral neuroscientist? We are at a crucial growth junction having initiated 
a program in behavioral neuroscience to complement our program in psychological 
science. The feeling among some is that the biological psychologist would be 
better serve the general psychological science program in the sense of 
preparing students who want to go into areas such as human relations/business 
or into law school or even into clinical areas with less than a PhD--i.e., 
areas that need a fundamental understanding of brain/behavior relationships, 
but not so finely tuned to the cellular levels and below.

I'd appreciate some feedback as to where the field is going.

(It seems to be that interdisciplinary neuroscience is the direction but I 
could be wrong on that. I'm not sure how to best research this objectively in 
some way other than looking at the job postings at APA and

RE: [tips] statistics teaching: SPSS vs R

[Marc Carter]

Is R like vi?  "Vi is very user friendly.  It's just picky about its friends."

m

PS  Although I got pretty adept with it, I still hate it.  It is vile.  
(Speaking of, "Vile" is apparently a more user-friendly version of vi.)

From: Hugh Foley [mailto:hfo...@skidmore.edu]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2014 1:50 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] statistics teaching: SPSS vs R










Last year, some students from my adv stats course (taught with SPSS) asked me 
to teach them R in the spring. I knew nothing about R, but I'd enjoyed using 
Field's SPSS text to supplement Keppel & Wickens and knew that he had a version 
with R:

http://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Statistics-Using-Andy-Field/dp/1446200469/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1408732248&sr=8-1&keywords=andy+field+r

I'm sure that Field is not to everyone's liking, but I enjoy his irreverent 
examples and his stats knowledge seems solid.

Here's my take on my R adventure...

It's admirable that people are actively working on R. It may well survive for a 
long time. That's the good news. The bad news is that people are actively 
working on R. That means that stuff breaks with new versions. (As in the many 
pieces of software incompatible with new versions of an OS.) For example, I 
think that some of the programs that Field developed for R (in a 2012 text) 
won't work with the newest versions of R for Mac. And a nice package for post 
hoc analyses wouldn't work with the latest Mac version (for Mavericks 
compatibility...and Yosemite is on the horizon...EEK). That said, I could get 
all the "big" analyses to work by using examples from Field's text within 
RStudio. (It may all be easier on a PC.)

I would argue that with sufficient investment of time (but see David below), 
learning R with a supporting text (such as Field's) could lead to mastery of a 
package that would be even more powerful than SPSS in lots of ways. People seem 
to be developing statistical software for R all the time, while SPSS seems 
fairly stagnant for software that isn't business related.

I'll be teaching adv stats again this fall (for the last time). I will surely 
use SPSS, but I may accompany each example in SPSS with R code.

Hugh

On Aug 22, 2014, at 10:13 AM, David Epstein 
mailto:da...@neverdave.com>> wrote:


In discussions of R, I tend to think of what programmer Jamie Zawinski
once said about Linux: that it's "only free if your time has no
value." :)

--David Epstein
 da...@neverdave.com

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RE: [tips] That Blowed Up Real Good!

[Marc Carter]

Gosh,that was hard to watch and not be reminded of September 11.  The Trade 
Towers pretty much imploded like and generated all that dust.

m

> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 9:37 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Cc: Michael Palij
> Subject: [tips] That Blowed Up Real Good!
> 
> NOTE:  Turn your sound down if you watch the videos in these articles.
> Unless, of course, you like broadcasting that you're watching a
> building implode.
> 
> This past weekend the good people of Albany, NY, got a chance to see
> "urban renewal" at work as the Wellington Hotel Annex was leveled by
> controlled implosion.  A new convention center will be erected in the
> area and I wouldn't be surprised if EPA (the regional psych org, not
> the environmental thingie) holds a meeting there shortly after the
> center opens (they'll probably get a great rate).  The implosion was
> well-documented by "citizen reporters" (i.e., people who watched with
> their smart phone's video on; one wonders how many people took video of
> the scene -- I wouldn't be surprised if it were in the
> hundreds) and some of these videos are up on the Gothamist website;
> see:
> http://gothamist.com/2014/08/24/videos_onlookers_delight_at_magical.php
> 
> The first video has someone engaged in uncontrolled giggling during the
> implosion -- one wonders what response this person had on 9/11.  But I
> guess that merriment at an event like this only to be expected when one
> knows they're not at any danger.
> 
> For those whose imploding building hunger is not sated, here's some
> videos of a building that was imploded on Governors' Island (off the
> southern tip of Manhattan, NYC); see:
> http://gothamist.com/2013/06/09/watch_the_the_tallest_building_on_g.php
> 
> The second video looks like it was shot from one of the high rise
> apartments in Battery Park City (see:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_Park_City ).  The person taking
> the video seems to me to show the right attitude (i.e., no giggling).
> There are also some fantastic shots of New York harbor with the
> Verrazano-Narrows bridge in the background.
> 
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
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[tips] Blame Canada?

[Mike Palij]

There is something strange going on with the once-Canadian journal
"Experimental & Clinical Cardiology".  It was published by the Pulsus
Publishing Groups but they sold it to some "strangers from New York"
(NOTE: I was not involved) who then flipped to some unknown entity.
And for $1,200 you too can get published in the journal.  Just make
sure you come up with a snappy title for your article like:
"Enter Paper Title".
The website "New Scientist" has a brief news article on this; see:
http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/40865/title/Predatory-Journal-Trading-on-Former-Name/
The "Ottawa Citizen" website had a reporter look into the shenanigans
at ECC and here is a link to his article:
http://ottawacitizen.com/technology/science/respected-medical-journal-turns-to-dark-side

They submitted an article to ECC that was based on a published study
of HIV but they replaced "HIV" with "cardiac" in the text.  The original 
paper

refers to graphs but the "updated" article had no graphs.  It was
accepted as is.  At $1,200 a pop, it is reported that the July issue had
142 article which translates into $170,000.  What better incentive
would a young entrepreneur need to buy the rights to an established
journal and then publish all articles submitted to it for a nice fee?
I wonder if the title "Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society" is 
available? ;-)


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

P.S. The "Ottawa Citizen" article mentions the U of Colorado librarian
Jeffrey Beall who runs the website "Scholarly Open Access" which also
has an article on this mess, in addition to many other academic messes.
The Wikipedia entry for Jeffrey Beall can be accessed here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Beall
To access the Scholarly Open Access website, see:
http://scholarlyoa.com/
To access the article on SOA on the ECC mess, see:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/07/08/cardiology-journals-decline-is-heartbreaking/#more-3838

















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[tips] "Limitless" Cognition

[Mike Palij]

Remember that movie with Bradley Cooper "Limitless" that upgraded
the estimate of how much "brain" we use -- in this movie it is asserted
that we only use 20% instead of the usual 10% (myth) -- well, beside
it being available on Amazon for $5 (perhaps an empirical indicator
of its success), it serves as an entry point in an informal article on 
the

"cognitive enhancers", their promise, and their disappointing reality.
It is an interesting read which some might finding useful in certain 
classes.

The article is available in a couple of different ways:
I came across it as an article on the "Pacific Standard" magazine
website; see:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/thoughts-cant-thought-ideas-cant-formed-promise-smart-drugs-88606/

However, this article by Marek Kohn was originally published on the
Mosaic website which is supported by the UK Wellcome Trust.
They apparently make their article freely distributable and 
republishable

(i.e., sites like Pacific Standard can take the article and publish
it on their website under the terms of the Creative Commons License).
One can access the original article here but with the title "Smart and
Smarter Drugs":
NOTE:  The Mosaic website will request to use a cookie for your
browser.
http://mosaicscience.com/story/smart-and-smarter-drugs

-Mike Palij
New York University
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