[tips] Text reviews

[Pollak, Edward]

Carol Devolder asked,  'If a publisher pays me an honorarium to review a 
potential text, are they paying me to be honest or are they paying me to say 
only good things about the book?"


I can't speak to the publishers' motivations. They may well think/hope they're 
paying you for a good review, or at least for some useable quotes. But you 
should give an honest review. The worst that can happen is that they won't ask 
you again. Besides, it's not like they're paying you big bucks. The meager 
stipend would appear to be prima facie evidence that they're not trying to 
bribe you.


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[tips] Tenure Track Position in Clinical Psychology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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Please share this position announcement with any qualified candidates.

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West Chester University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty 
position in Clinical Psychology at the assistant professor level. Applicants 
must have a Ph.D. or Psy.D. in psychology and be licensed or license-eligible 
in the state of Pennsylvania. In addition, applicants must have an active 
program of trauma-related research with an adult population, as evidenced by a 
track record of recent peer-reviewed empirical research, as well as a 
commitment to mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in research. We are 
especially interested in recruiting faculty from under-represented groups.  
Applicants must express a commitment to teaching courses in clinical psychology 
at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as specialty courses in 
trauma. Applicants selected for on-campus interviews will present a colloquium 
to demonstrate teaching and research excellence.  The Department of Psychology 
is composed of 23 full-time faculty members and serves approximately 800 
undergraduate majors, 60 master's degree students, and is beginning to serve 
Psy.D. students (PsyD program to begin Fall 2016).  Additional information is 
available at http://www.wcupa.edu.  Completion of 
doctorate is required before the start of the Fall 2017 semester.  Applicants 
should apply online at 
https://wcupa.peopleadmin.com. Applications 
must include a letter identifying the courses the applicant is prepared to 
teach, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference, no more than 3 reprints or 
preprints of published articles, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a 
statement of research interests.  Review of candidates will begin on October 3, 
2016 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must successfully 
complete the interview process and a colloquium to be considered finalists. The 
filling of this position is contingent upon available funding. All offers of 
employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory completion of all 
pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting checks. West Chester 
University is an Affirmative Action-Equal Opportunity Employer.


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RE:[tips] Grading improvement

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And the slide toward rewarding mediocrity continues 
unabated..  We've already dumbed down so many of our intro 
courses and now we're looking for ways to moderate the effects of poor 
performance.


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Subject: Grading improvement
From: Michael Ofsowitz 
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 12:21:37 -0400
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First, forgive me for stepping out of a long-entrenched role as lurker.

Do any of you have a system to formally grade/reward improvement on
course work (e.g., tests) as a component of the total course grade?






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Re:[tips] agnotology

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I love this election cycle. It's allowed to make frequent use of the word, 
"Schadenfreude" and now I get to learn a new world that will, no word, be 
almost as useful to me as "schadenfreude" has been.



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[tips] Tenure Track Developmental Position at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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West Chester University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty 
position beginning August 2016 at the assistant professor level in 
developmental psychology with a specialty in autism spectrum disorders. 
Applicants must have a PhD in psychology with developmental specialization, an 
active program of peer reviewed research studying autism, and the ability to 
mentor undergraduate and graduate students in research. Preference will be 
given to applicants committed to teaching courses in developmental psychology, 
autism, and undergraduate core courses. Additionally, preference will be given 
to candidates with expertise in learning theory and who will be well prepared 
to teach classes in learning theory and applied behavior analysis.

Candidates selected for on-campus interviews will present a colloquium to 
demonstrate teaching and research excellence.  The Department of Psychology is 
composed of 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty and serves approximately 850 
undergraduate majors and 100 master's degree students.  We are especially 
interested in recruiting faculty from underrepresented groups.  Additional 
information is available at http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/sch_cas.psy/.



Completion of the doctorate is required before the start of the Fall 2016 
semester. Applicants should apply online at 
https://agency.governmentjobs.com/wcupa/default.cfm?action=viewJob=1292263

Applications must include all of the following: a cover letter identifying the 
courses the applicant is prepared to teach, curriculum vitae, two reprints or 
preprints of published articles, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a 
statement of research interests.  Additionally, applicants must ensure that 
three letters of recommendation are submitted to Psychology Department 
Administrative Assistant, Ms. Bridgid Fitzgerald, at 
bfitzger...@wcupa.edu.  Review of candidates will 
begin on December 15th and continue until position is filled.  Applicants must 
successfully complete the interview process and colloquium to be considered 
finalists. The filling of this position is contingent upon available funding.  
All offers of employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory 
completion of a pre-employment criminal background check.  West Chester 
University is an Affirmative Action - Equal Opportunity Employer.  Developing 
and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff advances WCU's educational mission 
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[tips] Tenure Track I/O Position at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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West Chester University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty 
position beginning August 2016 at the assistant professor level in 
Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in I/O 
psychology, an active program of research studying I/O-related topics, 
experience teaching I/O courses, and the ability to mentor undergraduate and 
graduate students in I/O research. The specific area of I/O expertise is open. 
The successful candidate must be committed to teaching courses in I/O 
Psychology at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as undergraduate 
core courses in the curriculum.  Preference will be given to candidates with a 
strong quantitative/statistical background.  Preference will also be given to 
candidates who demonstrate ability to teach online courses.

Candidates selected for on-campus interviews will present a colloquium to 
demonstrate teaching and research excellence.  The Department of Psychology is 
composed of 22 tenured and tenure-track faculty and serves approximately 850 
undergraduate majors and 100 master's degree students.  We are especially 
interested in recruiting faculty from underrepresented groups. Additional 
information is available at http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/sch_cas.psy/.



Completion of the Ph.D. is required before the start of the Fall 2016 semester. 
Applicants should apply online at 
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Applications must include all of the following: a cover letter identifying the 
courses the applicant is prepared to teach, curriculum vitae, no more than 3 
reprints or preprints of published articles, a statement of teaching 
philosophy, and a statement of research interests. Additionally, applicants 
must ensure that three letters of recommendation are submitted to the 
Psychology Department Administrative Assistant, Ms. Bridgid Fitzgerald, at 
bfitzger...@wcupa.edu.



Review of candidates will begin on November 1, 2015 and continue until the 
position is filled.  Applicants must successfully complete the interview 
process and colloquium to be considered finalists. The filling of this position 
is contingent upon available funding.  All offers of employment are subject to 
and contingent upon satisfactory completion of a pre-employment criminal 
background check.  West Chester University is an Affirmative Action - Equal 
Opportunity Employer. Developing and sustaining a diverse faculty and staff 
advances WCU's educational mission and strategic plan. Women, minorities, 
veterans, and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.



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[tips] Job ads with open areas of specialization: a question

[Pollak, Edward]

Paula Waddill posted an ad for an "Assistant Professor of Psychology - Open 
Area of Specialization - Murray State Univ."

Having been involved in dozens of searches over the years, I'm curious about 
these "open" searches. My department never did such a search because we assumed 
that it would result in an unmanageable number of applications, probably 
numbering in the hundreds. When combined with the difficulties involved in 
comparing applicants from radically different specializations, This just seems 
crazy to me. In addition, I can't imagine how one would go about defending 
decisions to the affirmative action officer when such different criteria would 
have to be used for different disciplines.

In all fairness, my university is in an area (suburban Philadelphia) that is 
close to dozens of universities & teaching hospitals. These give us access to a 
very large number of new Ph.D.s, interns, & post docs. And we have a large 
number of dual career couples, both of whom are looking for academic or high 
tech jobs in the same area. Our searches, therefore, virtually never have a 
dearth of applicants. I realize that this may not be the case in less urban 
areas or urban areas without the large number of academic institutions with 
which we are blessed. Murray, TN is a good 2 hrs. from the nearest large city 
(Nashville) so it's probably not ideal for attracting dual career couples and 
its religious diversity seems minimal, e.g., the nearest synagogue is in 
Paducah, an hour away. It is, however, in a beautiful region with lots of 
recreational possibilities.

My question is, have any of you had experiences with running "open searches" 
and what have been your experiences? I'm just curious.

Ed



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RE:[tips] Addressing Student Questions in Introduction to Psychology

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Am I the only one who finds this whole thing a bit distasteful? This just 
strikes me as a Cliff Notes for Intro Psych Professors.

Ed


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From: Scott Freng
 As an instructor of Introduction to Psychology/General Psychology, I 
frequently have students asking questions regarding the material that I do not 
feel confident to answer because the question is outside my area of expertise 
or the material is not sufficiently covered in my textbook. Unfortunately, I 
often lack adequate time to thoroughly review relevant literature and answer 
the question in a later class period. In an effort to create a resource for 
instructors of Introduction to Psychology experiencing similar difficulties we 
conducted two studies. In the two studies, we recruited instructors of 
Introduction to Psychology from this listserv and had them report students' 
commonly asked questions posed in Introduction to Psychology. In addition, we 
had instructors identify student questions they would like more fully 
addressed. From this last survey, we identified three frequently chosen 
questions and with the cooperation of relevant experts, developed short and 
easily digestible answers to these questions.

If you are interested in the questions identified and developed answers, you 
can access the document by going to this 
link.https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48081498/FAQ%20project.docx

I want to thank all the participants we recruited from this listserv for their 
participation.

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RE:[tips] Analyses support theory that Botox might alleviate depression

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I agree, Annette,this is not really new. I remember listening to a paper, 
Perhaps 20 years ago at EPA. The authors used patients in therapy as subjects. 
All were instructed to discuss a recent incident that they found annoying, 
unpleasant, distressing. But 1/2 of the subjects were instructed to speak 
softly  slowly (i.e., calmly) while the other half were instructed to speak 
loudly  rapidly. Subjects were later asked to rate how distressing they found 
that incident. The subjects speaking calmly rated the incident as much less 
distressing  those instructed to speak in an angry voice reported that the 
incident had distressed them much more.





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 Subject: RE: Analyses support theory that Botox might alleviate depression
From: Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 14:00:45 +
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This is actually pretty old news. I heard these reports going back several 
years. Granted, this is a meta-analysis that includes studies that go back 
several years, I'd imagine (it was an orally presented paper presentation and I 
assume is not yet in print? Or was rejected for publication?)

You can also read about it here: 
http://www.botoxfordepression.com/research-botox-for-depression/

and here:
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/health/Botox-May-Help-Alleviate-Depression-116730639.html
The latter goes back to 2011.

So, if this is so effective why is treatment with botox not far more widespread?

But what struck me in the link provided below is this set of sentences:

For botulinum patients versus placebo patients, the odds ratio for a response 
was 8.3, with a 95% confidence interval from 3.4 to 20.3.
Similarly, the odds ratio for a remission was 4.6, with a 95% confidence 
interval from 1.6 to 13.1.

Now, if I'm a lay person, or even a modestly educated person about 
statistics--I've had the one class required for the major in psych, for 
example, I have no idea what this is telling me. I know the move is towards 
using CIs to report stats but I'd still want to see something more than this as 
a result.

How would a stats expert interpret these two sentences? (Certainly not me!)

I think it's pretty meaningless to a lay person who might think it's very 
important just because it's couched in such scientific sounding language.

Annette

ps: I favor the facial feedback hypothesis ;-)



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[tips] Analyses support theory that Botox might alleviate depression

[Pollak, Edward]

Holy cow, Batman. Bob Zajonc theory may have more relevance than we knew. And 
by extension, perhaps the James-Lange theory as 
well...



Analyses support theory that Botox might alleviate depression

http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/APA/51696
Injections of botulinum toxin A into the forehead worked better than placebo at 
reducing depression symptoms, according to a systematic review and an analysis 
of three randomized trials. The studies were small and more research is needed 
to confirm the findings, but the treatment might be useful in some refractory 
disease cases, said Julio Licinio of the South Australian Health and Medical 
Research Institute, who was not involved in the studies.



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RE:[tips] Student excuses

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My very favourite student excuse: I can't take the exam that day because it's 
my birthday.

Talk about a feeling of entitlement!  Argh.



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Re:[tips] Evaluating Instructors By Successful Completions in Courses

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Just look at any research in Depts. of Education where they've pretty much 
instituted a policy of no grade lower than a C. When the Commonwealth of PA 
raised the GPA needed to student teach (I think to a 3.5), surprise, surprise, 
anything below an B was rarely given in their 1st year Educational Psychology 
course. I know this because many of these A  B students who had received 
such high grades in Ed. Psych. would then take an intro psych course in the 
Psych Dept., and proceed to go down in flames. And the poor dears were even 
blindsided by the prof requiring to know things from the text that weren't 
even covered in lecture and which were only available in the textbook. Oh, the 
horror!



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Re:[tips] William James and Islam

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On Mar 9, 2015, at 3:40 AM, michael sylvester asked, Why do Moslem students 
have an aversion to Freud and Skinner?

Probably the same reason that my more religious Christan students object to 
Freud  Skinner, i.e., the emphasis on determinism (of any sort) and the 
difficulties that causes for (religious) systems in which free will is central.

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RE:[tips] Teaching Introductory without a required textbook?

[Pollak, Edward]

Doug asked, 
Has anyone tried teaching introductory psychology with either an optional 
textbook or without a required textbook at all?  If so what was your 
experience? .

To which Karl replied, A fair number of my undergrad students never buy the 
book.  They tell me that they rely on my online lecture notes alone.

I find that pretty appalling, Karl. One of my students once wrote on 
ratemyprofessors.com Don't take Pollak. You have to go to class AND read the 
book! To this day, I remain exceedingly proud of that comment.

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[tips] Tenure-track faculty position in social psychology at West Chester University of Pennsylvania

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West Chester University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty 
position in social psychology, with an emphasis on multiculturalism, at the 
assistant professor level.  Candidates must have a Ph.D. in psychology by 
August 2015, an active program of peer reviewed research that is grounded in 
social justice, experience teaching psychology courses, and expertise in 
structural inequality and intersectionality.  In addition, the successful 
candidate will be committed to mentoring students in research and teaching 
undergraduate and graduate courses in social psychology and multicultural 
psychology.  Preference will be given to candidates with a broad perspective of 
multiculturalism encompassing dimensions including but not limited to social 
class, gender, race/ethnicity, and sexuality.  Candidates selected for 
on-campus interviews will present a colloquium to demonstrate teaching and 
research excellence.  The Department of Psychology is composed of 22 tenured 
and tenure-track faculty and serves approximately 850 undergraduate majors and 
100 master's degree students, and we are especially interested in recruiting 
faculty from underrepresented groups. Additional information is available at 
http://www.wcupa.edu/_academics/sch_cas.psy/.  Completion of the Ph.D. is 
required before the start of the Fall 2015 semester.  Applicants should apply 
online at https://agency.governmentjobs.com/wcupa/default.cfm. Applications 
must include all of the following: a letter identifying the courses the 
applicant is prepared to teach, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference, no 
more than 3 reprints or preprints of published articles, a statement of 
teaching philosophy including a detailed description of how you would teach 
undergraduate multicultural psychology from a social justice perspective, and a 
statement of research interests.  Review of candidates will begin on February 
1, 2015 and continue until position is filled.  Applicants must successfully 
complete the interview process and colloquium to be considered finalists.  The 
filling of this position is contingent upon available funding.  All offers of 
employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory completion of a 
pre-employment criminal background check.  Developing and sustaining a diverse 
faculty and staff advances WCU's educational mission and strategic plan. West 
Chester University is an Affirmative Action - Equal Opportunity Employer. Women 
and Minorities are encouraged to apply.

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[tips] Trial Of Polygraph Critic Renews Debate Over Tests' Accuracy

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Trial Of Polygraph Critic Renews Debate Over Tests' Accuracy

The federal government is throwing the book at one of the most vocal critics of 
the polygraph test.

Doug Williams, a man who makes his living teaching people how to beat the test, 
will go on trial in January on charges of witness tampering and mail fraud. But 
Williams' defenders say he's being punished by a government that has become 
overly dependent on polygraphs.

See the full article at

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/02/371925732/trial-of-polygraph-critic-renews-debate-over-tests-accuracy




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[tips] Help finding Boston area grad student or adjunct

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I'm forwarding this position, first posted on another list. See below.

Ed


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Date:Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:32:01 +
From:Rosenthal, Lori H 
lrosent...@lasell.edumailto:lrosent...@lasell.edu
Subject: Help finding Boston area grad student or adjunct

Hello all,

I'm in a bit of a bind having trouble to find someone to teach an experimental 
design/research methods course for the spring in the greater Boston area 
(Newton).

I'm hoping someone might know of a talented graduate student, adjunct 
professor, or a working professional with research expertise who might be 
interested.  It's a perfect position for a grad student looking to build their 
teaching portfolio because we offer a lot of support and training through our 
Teaching and Learning Center.

The class times are set and can't be changed though.  They are Tuesday/Thursday 
11-12:15 with a lab component that can be done either day right after the class 
or even split among the two days (the students all have 12:15-2 on both days 
available and the lab space is available as well).

Please pass this along to anyone you know who might be interested or who might 
know someone who would like to apply.

Thank you for your help!

Lori Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Social Sciences
Lasell College

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617-243-2074









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[tips] Why Brain Does Not Equal Mind

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So because the brain is more complex  dynamic than a toaster it can't be 
mind? That could be the single weakest argument I've ever heard.






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Subject: Why Brain Does Not Equal Mind
From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 12:47:16 -0500
X-Message-Number: 4

With all of the wack and rank neuroscience being promoted
these days, it's easy for people to think that brain function is
that same thing as cognitive function.  One popular media
article that points out some of the problems with this view is
an Neurohacks article on the BBC website; see:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20141216-can-you-live-with-half-a-brain

Quoting from the article:

|Part of the problem may be our way of thinking. It is natural
|to see the brain as a piece of naturally selected technology,
|and in human technology there is often a one-to-one mapping
|between structure and function. If I have a toaster, the heat is
|provided by the heating element, the time is controlled by the
|timer and the popping up is driven by a spring. The case of the
|missing cerebellum reveals there is no such simple scheme
|for the brain. Although we love to talk about the brain region
|for vision, for hunger or for love, there are no such brain regions,
|because the brain isn't technology where any function is governed
|by just one part.
|
|Take another recent case, that of a man who was found to have
|a tapeworm in his brain. Over four years it burrowed from one
|side to the other, causing a variety of problems such as seizures,
|memory problems and weird smell sensations. Sounds to me like
|he got off lightly for having a living thing move through his brain.
|If the brain worked like most designed technology this wouldn't
|be possible. If a worm burrowed from one side of your phone to
|the other, the gadget would die. Indeed, when an early
electromechanical
|computer malfunctioned in the 1940s, an investigation revealed
|the problem: a moth trapped in a relay - the first actual case of
|a computer bug being found.

Well, so much for a Jennifer Aniston detector cell. ;-)

-Mike Palij
New York University
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RE:[tips] quick question about wipe-off markers

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I, too, have had (idiot) faculty use permanent markers on white boards. But 
there's a simple solution. I used to keep a big bottle of rubbing alcohol in my 
office and sometimes a small one in my briefcase. It's very effective in 
getting the permanent markers off of white boards.  Pill vials or small, 2 oz. 
cough medicine bottles are perfect for carrying rubbing alcohol in one's 
briefcase.

Ed



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Re:[tips] Teach statistics before calculus

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Claudia Stanny wrote, I once served on a committee for a master's thesis in 
which the student,  disappointed that his findings produced non-significant 
p-values, tried
some alternative analyses in SPSS. He showed up one day, beaming, with an
output that he thought indicated he had a significant 3 factor solution
for his data. Problem: his data were based on a factorial design. [Perhaps
that explains why he thought a factor analysis would be a good idea.
(sigh)]

I'll go you one better, Claudia. I did a post doc in a bio dept.  in which the 
graduate statistics course was, basically, here's how you use SPSS (or 
whatever program they were using in 1976).  Although I had been, at best, a 
mediocre statistics student, I because the ersatz departmental statistician. 
The worst moment was when a doctoral candidate had trouble understanding why he 
couldn't do an ANOVA on his data when one of the groups had an N=1.




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[tips] * Tell me about who you are. Forget and make no reference to all your personal roles such as father, friend, husband (wife), son (daughter), forget and make no reference to all your profession

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Louis suggested the following interview question: * Tell me about who you are.  
Forget and make no reference to all your personal roles such as father, friend, 
husband (wife), son (daughter), forget and make no reference to all your 
professional roles, your past and present titles, forget and make no reference 
to your degrees and all your positions, forget and make no reference to what 
you have, forget and make no reference to all that you have done.  Just tell me 
about who you are.

Paul has already commented that this question is  patently strange and will 
tend to make a candidate not want to come work for the organization, IMO.

I'm trying to imagine what sort of answer Louis might be looking for that would 
be in any way useful. Can someone be defined in ways other than behavior? And 
if so, is that definition relevant to anything at all?

I'm asking myself about how someone like Torquemada might answer Louis' 
question. Perhaps it might start out something like this: I'm a deeply 
spiritual person who is concerned with the spiritual well being of his fellow 
man.


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[tips] Funny example of extinction

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My favorite clip for illustrating a variety of concepts in learning has always 
been this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_0bhT98g9Y. Students LOVE it. Positive 
reinforcement, negative reinforcement, schedule of reinforcement, etc. This one 
has it all.


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[tips] On The Dangers of Pseudoscience

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Nice timing. The wife  I just returned from a tour of the National Parks 
(don't ask!) and ended up in Las Vegas. We caught Penn  Teller's show there. 
Penn Gillette gave and fairly long rant on his belief that ALL mediums, 
psychics, ESPers, etc. are naught but charlatans  crooks. (Interestingly, he 
didn't specifically mention faith healers.) Of course, this is not a new 
position for him but I was a bit surprised at the lack of applause elicited by 
his comments. His rant on the TSA and unwarranted searches and seizures at 
airports was better received.

Ed

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[tips] David Hubel, RIP

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I partially credit Torsten  Wiesel with my choice of biopsychology as my 
field. As a junior I wrote a paper on their work  it got me hooked. Of course, 
my interest was first piqued by a NY Times article on Jose Delgado's stunt with 
implanted electrodes  a charging bull! 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23pXqY3X6c8


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[tips] Education isn't about teaching facts (yes, we know)

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I'm sorry but I don't understand how one can think critically without knowing 
a lot facts. I've had too many experiences with 1st year students thinking that 
their thoughts, based on a lack of facts, is as valid as anyone else's opinion. 
My experience is that once you have learned the basic (and often conflicting) 
evidence in a given field, critical thinking comes (almost) as a matter of 
course. It's analogous to what happens with education majors, inundated with 
pedagogy courses but with a dearth of content courses with those pesky little 
facts. What we do NOT need are more teachers wasting time on topics  like 
self-esteem, self-regulation, etc. Teach them knowledge!

Your Resident Old Curmudgeon


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[tips] Do Orthodox Jews Believe in Vaccination?

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Michael asked if there was an Orthodox Jewish position on vaccinating one's 
children and Where in the Torah, Talmud, or Pentateuch (sic) are medical issues 
addressed?

(Just FYI, Michael, the Torah IS the Pentateuch.)  But if you really want to 
know the answers to your question, just do a Google search for Jewish Belief 
Vaccinations and you'll find more than you ever wanted to know on the issue, 
including numerous references from Torah  Talmud. But the short answer is that 
most rabbis (including most Orthodox rabbis) do not object to vaccination and 
the vast majority would promote vaccination. That being said, there may be some 
ultraorthodox (Hassidic) sects who oppose vaccination but even most Hassidic 
sects would not oppose vaccination. The same could be said Christians, most 
agree with the policy of vaccinations for children but sects actively oppose 
it. .

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[tips] Tenure Track Opening: Adult Clinical

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West Chester University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty 
position in Clinical Psychology at the assistant professor level. Applicants 
must have a Ph.D. in psychology, an active program of research with an adult 
population, and the ability to mentor undergraduate and graduate students in 
research. We are especially interested in recruiting faculty from 
under-represented groups.  Preference will be given to candidates who can begin 
their appointment in January, 2014.  Applicants must express a commitment to 
teaching courses in clinical psychology (e.g., personality, 
abnormal/psychopathology, counseling/psychotherapy, testing/assessment) at the 
undergraduate and graduate levels.  Applicants selected for on-campus 
interviews will present a colloquium to demonstrate teaching and research 
excellence.  The Department of Psychology is composed of 20 full-time faculty 
members and serves approximately 800 undergraduate majors and 100 master’s 
degree students.  Additional information is available at http://www.wcupa.edu.  
Completion of the Ph.D. from an APA-approved program is required before the 
start of the appointment, as is licensure-eligibility in the state of PA.  
Applicants should apply online at https://wcupa.peopleadmin.com. Applications 
must include a letter identifying the courses the applicant is prepared to 
teach, curriculum vitae, 3 letters of reference, no more than 3 reprints or 
preprints of published articles, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a 
statement of research interests.  Review of candidates will begin on August 15, 
2013 and continue until the position is filled. Applicants must successfully 
complete the interview process and a colloquium to be considered finalists. The 
filling of this position is contingent upon available funding. All offers of 
employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory completion of all 
pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting checks. West Chester 
University is an Affirmative Action-Equal Opportunity Employer.

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[tips] clinical Ph.Ds?

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Our last few clinical hires resulted in some really amazing candidates, all of 
who accepted our offers. But we are located about 25 mi. west of Philadelphia 
so we attract candidates who were raised in the area  who want to return. We 
get people coming off post docs  internships in area Ph.D. granting 
universities  teaching hospitals (of which there are many), and we get people 
who want an area where their spouses can find employment whether it be in 
academia, medicine, business, etc. So as in real estate, I think it's all about 
l about location, location, location!

Ed


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Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 7:05 PM
 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
 Subject: [tips] clinical Ph.Ds?

 Have a question about new clinical Ph.Ds. We have been advertising
 this year for someone in clinical psych who can come aboard our
 undergrad program here. It is a teaching/research university but there
 is not the high pressure that others face for grants and publications.
 We have had a lot of trouble just getting qualified, new Ph.D. clinical
 folks to apply and I am wondering if this is peculiar to us or if
 others have had similar problems. Are new clinical Ph.Ds not
 interested in academic positions at all these days? Maybe the practice
 opportunities are much more attractive? We have advertised in the usual
 places but maybe there other places to put the ad than the chronicle
 and apa and aps publications? Any suggestions will be appreciated. Our
 applicants are totally off base (not clinical, etc.) and/or we have
 fewer new ph.d. clinicians applying. I wish this were an April first
 joke, but it is just a real challenge in building our program.

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re:[tips] Some movement disorders may be rooted in the brain............................ Well, duh!

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OK, Mike has convinced me that he's correct. There are disorders which have 
nothing to do with the nervous system and are, in fact, the product of an 
incorporeal mind. except, perhaps for those caused by evil spirits.  It 
seems eminently reasonable to me that if I can't find any biological basis for 
a disorder, it can't be because I have yet to find that basis.. Rather, it must 
be the caused by evil spirits.


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re:[tips] Some movement disorders may be rooted in the brain............................ Well, duh!

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Mike Palij wriote, I'm having a hard time understanding Ed's post. Perhaps he
is saying Hey, the movement/muscle disorder either it has a neurological
basis in the brain or it is psychological based (i.e., psychogenic) and
that's too is in brain! It's all in the brain! Which is a pretty trivial
point and misses, well, the point. Perhaps Ed doesn't know what
psychogenic illnesses are (e.g., as described here:
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/psychogenic_movement/psychogenic_movement.htm
 )
that is, disorders that manifest themselves in some physical manner,
such a abnormal movement or blindness or pain or fatigue and
so on without any obvious organic or physical basis. If there
is no organic basis, then either a psychological explanation or
malingering might be considered. These types of functional
disorders are often stigmatized by both the medical community
(because there is no objective basis for the disorder) and the
public (who think that the person is just faking it for some sort
of secondary gain). The point of the research being reported
is that movement disorders that have a genetic (i.e., known
organic) basis and psychogenic basis have brain activity that
is different from normal people just faking. If this is trivial,
I'd like to know why.



1) I don't think it's at all trivial to acjknowledge that all behavior is 
rooted in brain activity. Witness the number of unapologetic dualists 
publishing at a prolific rate and by the use of terms like psychogenic. 2) I 
had thought that the entire notion of functional vs. organic illness was long 
defunct. Defining an illness as functional (i.e., not organic) simply because 
you don't know the biological basis is, IMO, patently absurd. When I was an 
undergraduate, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, etc., etc., were 
all considered functional disorders. Only things like Korsakoff's syndrome or 
general paresis were trotted out as examples of disorders with an organic 
basis. The organic causes of functional or psychogenic disorders may be 
less obvious but they are there.

(And just for the record, I was making fun of the headline in the popular press 
and not of the research in question.)

Ed


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[tips] Some movement disorders may be rooted in the brain............................ Well, duh!

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

WE HAVE A WINNER for the biggest Well, Duh of the 
century

Ed



Some movement disorders may be rooted in the 
brainhttp://r.smartbrief.com/resp/elqWCjregRCibXtGCidndyCicNdIMO?format=standard
People who suffer from little-known movement and muscle disorders commonly 
referred to as psychogenic diseases showed abnormal brain patterns in a recent 
study. The cause of these diseases is still unknown, as it has been difficult 
to detect such differences in brain activity, but the study led by 
neuroscientist James Rowe of the University of Cambridge used PET scans to find 
the abnormal brain activity. 
http://www.livescience.com/27370-mysterious-muscle-disorder-brain-roots.html


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[tips] To Good Ole Boys in Tipsville

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As luck would have it, I recently returned Florida, having been on a  bluegrass 
cruise to the Bahamas. (Really.) And aside from having no interest in watching 
auto racing, I have even less interest in playing Dueling Banjos. One can't 
play a bar gig without someone calling for the band to play that tune. That's 
usually right before some drunk calls out for you to play Tocky Rop (sic).

Ed


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Subject: To Good Ole Boys in Tipsville
From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 05:54:36 -0800
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The Daytona 500 is on this Sunday,so let me know if any of Tipsville's good ole 
boys(Michael Scoles,Ken Steele,Ed,et al)
will be in Daytona.Let us meet as a group.I have two cases
of Mountain Dew and unlimited Jack Daniels.There will also be an Appalachian 
student who wants to team up with
Ed to perform dueling banjos.
Feedback requested.


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[tips] BANG With Academics?

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Mike Palij asked about hook up sites for psychologists, et al.

I'm not sure about APA but the New Scientist web site has a dating service for 
scientists. See. http://dating.newscientist.com/s/a/17833

Maybe I could find my own Amy Farrah Fowler.  (For those who don't get the 
reference, see http://bigbangtheory.wikia.com/wiki/Amy_Farrah_Fowler)

Ed
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[tips] Joint Search by Psychology and Anthropology/Sociology Primatologist

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Position Advertisement for Joint Search by
Psychology and Anthropology/Sociology
Primatologist
2012-2013

Join a vibrant campus community whose excellence is reflected in its diversity 
and student success. West Chester University invites applications for a 
tenure-track faculty joint appointment (Psychology and Anthropology/Sociology) 
in Primatology at the assistant professor level.  Candidates must have a PhD in 
Anthropology or Psychology with specialization in Primatology and Evolution, 
and an active program of applied research that involves students.  Access to an 
international field site is preferred as is a commitment to engaging 
undergraduate students in field and/or research experiences that are local or 
otherwise readily accessible.  In addition, candidates will be expected to 
teach existing courses and laboratories in the areas of Animal Behavior and 
Biological Anthropology, and to develop new cross-listed courses related to 
Primatology and Human/Primate Evolution.  Ability to teach Introduction to 
Cultural Anthropology is expected if the candidate holds the PhD in 
Anthropology, and interest in teaching other core undergraduate classes, such 
as Statistics, Research Methods, and Introduction to Psychology, is preferred. 
Completion of the Ph.D. is required before the start of the Fall 2013 semester. 
We are especially interested in recruiting faculty from under-represented 
groups.

West Chester University is a regional comprehensive institution that is one of 
the largest universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.  
It has a population of 15,100 graduate and undergraduate students and is 
located 25 miles west of Philadelphia and 120 miles from New York City and 
Washington, DC.  Additional information is available at 
http://www.wcupa.eduhttp://www.wcupa.edu/.


Applicants should provide a letter identifying the courses they are prepared to 
teach, their curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, a statement 
of research interests, 3 letters of reference, and no more than 3 reprints or 
preprints.  Materials should be uploaded electronically to: 
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candidates will begin on March 1, 2013 and continue until the position is 
filled.  Candidates selected for on-campus interviews will present a colloquium 
to demonstrate teaching and research excellence. Applicants will not be 
considered finalists until the interview process has been successfully 
completed.  The filling of this position is contingent upon available funding. 
All offers of employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory 
completion of all pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting 
checks.  West Chester University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity 
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[tips] Groundhog day (teaching related)

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A popular myth in USA connected with the 2nd of February (groundhog day)
says: If a groundhog (Marmota Monax) sees his shadow while peeping out of
his burrow on 2nd of February, winterly weather will continue for 6 
weeks.



As a professor emeritus I have little to do on this list but picks nits so I 
need to point out that in a scientific name, only the genus is capitalized, The 
species name is lower case. Amd both names should be italicized. Hence, the 
proper form is Marmota monax.

Ed


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[tips] Drug Actions: Mouse Party

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The recent discussion on SSRIs remind me of a great little interactive 
animation that describes the action of various drugs. It only deals with drugs 
of abuse and might be a tad dated but it's still great  students love it.  See 
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html

Use your computer's mouse to pick up  a cartoon mouse  place it in the 
analyzer. I've think I've shared this before but it's worth a rerun.

Ed


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[tips] Evidence of Premonitions Discovered in New Study

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Here we go again!



Evidence of Premonitions Discovered in New Study

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/10/22/evidence-of-premonitions-hinted-at-in-new-study/


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[tips] FW: Wetakeyourclass.com

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OK, folks. We have a brand new definition of chutzpah.   A student is 
complaining that wetakeyourclass.com scammed him.

See 
http://we-take-your-class.pissedconsumer.com/917-300-9820-wetakeyourclass-com-scam-20120723334071.html




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From: Bunk, Jennifer
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:55 PM
To: Pollak, Edward (Retired)
Subject: RE: Wetakeyourclass.com

Oh, boy……

If this is a hoax, it’s a really elaborate one.

And someone got upset that they scammed him…


http://we-take-your-class.pissedconsumer.com/917-300-9820-wetakeyourclass-com-scam-20120723334071.html




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Jennifer Bunk, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Graduate Cordinator (I/O and General)
610-436-2758
Office: People's Building, Room 44
Fall 2012 Office Hours: M 3-6, Tu 12:30-3, W 7-8 (by appt.), Th 12:30-1:30
Schedule a Meeting:  
tungle.me/jenniferbunkhttps://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx

From: Pollak, Edward (Retired)
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:31 AM
To: Shivde, Geeta; Rundus, Aaron S.; Clarke, Angela T; Zotter, Deanne; 
Mahlstedt, Deborah; Brown, Eleanor; Bunk, Jennifer; Tahmaseb McConatha, Jasmin; 
Rieser-Danner, Loretta; Kumar, Krishna; Bloom, Arvid; Azorlosa, Julian; Hyers, 
Lauri; Porter, Louis; Duncan, Phillip; Gans, Susan; Kerr, Sandra; Yorges, 
Stefani; Treadwell, Thomas; Johnson, Vanessa
Subject: Wetakeyourclass.com


Don't you just love on-line courses?



Don't have the time to take that online class? We'll take it for you!!! We will 
do all the homework assignments, participate in discussions, will even take 
your tests and pass them, http://www.wetakeyourclass.com/.


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[tips] Rat Race

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Anyone who doubts the ubiquity of Rattus norvegicus in psychological research 
needs to (re-)read Frank Beach's class paper, The Snark was a Boojum. See 
http://www.sfn.org/skins/main/pdf/HistoryofNeuroscience/FrankABeach.pdf


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[tips] Whatever happened to

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 InMichael Sylvester asked, Whatever happened to Comparative Psychology?

As one of the owner/editors of the Comparative Psychology Newsletter (on 
YahooGroups) I think I can answer that question but it's complex.

One the one hand, it is often said to be subsumed under the banners of animal 
behavior or sociobiology or ethology.  While that is somewhat correct, it's 
also a bit misleading. I've been amazed at how sparse animal behavior texts 
are on animal learning  cognition, the heart of traditional comparative 
psychology. When we were hiring for my replacement (I retired last June in case 
you missed all the celebratory whooping  hollering coming fro my house) and I 
was amazed to find that very few applicants came from what I would call a 
comparative psychology program. They came either from biology or physical 
anthropology programs or they came from (psychology) cognition programs. It 
turns out that as the Zeitgeist has shifted from Skinnerian-Thorndikean 
concepts in animal learning to the study of cognition  consciousness, 
traditional comparative psychology has been absorbed into the fields of 
cognitive psychology. . Some of the animal behavior texts don't even mention 
cognitive psychology and basically define ethology as the study of animal 
behavior.  Of course, these are also the texts that has no chapters on animal 
cognition and almost nothing on primates. In fact, books such as these tend 
spend 90% of their time on inframammalian species.

There are a few Comparative Psychology texts but frankly, I find them too 
narrrow (weak on evolution/sociobiology) and so detail-driven that you lose the 
beauty that is animal behavior.

Just my 2 cents.

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From: mjchael sylvester msylves...@copper.net
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:33:51 -0400
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Comparative Psychology?

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[tips] Pinterest - a girl thing?

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Is it too obvious to suggest that the skewed ratio might be due to the fact 
that psych majors (at least at my school) are overwhelmingly female?


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 Date:Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:54:46 -0400
From:Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.com
Subject: Pinterest - a girl thing?

I'm not sure if this is lecture or class discussion worthy but here goes: I 
posted recently that I created a board on Pinterest.  I've only been using 
Pinterest for perhaps a month but it's getting a lot of buzz.  One of the 
things its getting buzz about is that most of the users of Pinterest appear to 
be of the female persuasion.  My unscientific poll appears to support this: of 
the 38 people who follow me on Pinterest, only 9 are male.  So: why might this 
be?

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[tips] What's that called?

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Michael Britt asked, What's the psychological principle called when one person 
breaks off from the group and the other group members start to follow this 
dissenter?

Christianity?  ;-o


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Re:[tips] depression as crutch

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You might check out the evolutionary/sociobiological approaches to depression.  
e.g., see 
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions-evolutionary

and

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/the-evolution-of-depression/.



If your student decides it's relevant, she can dig deeper.



Ed


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[tips] Little Albert

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As reported in Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education . . . .  .

A New Twist in the Sad Saga of Little Albert
January 25, 2012, 5:12 pm
By Tom 
Bartletthttps://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2507ff69dc204d238b6aea92c46f4aebURL=http%3a%2f%2fchronicle.com%2fblogs%2fpercolator%2fauthor%2ftbartlett
https://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2507ff69dc204d238b6aea92c46f4aebURL=http%3a%2f%2fchronicle.com%2fblogs%2fpercolator%2ffiles%2f2012%2f01%2falbert.jpegIn
 the famous Little Albert experiment, a nearly 9-month-old baby is shown a 
white rat. The rat crawls up to the baby, on him, and around him. The baby 
seems interested in the rat and unafraid. Later, researchers again produce the 
rat and place it next to the baby, but this time the rat’s presence is 
accompanied by a loud, startling clang — a sound the baby clearly doesn’t like. 
This is repeated multiple times until the baby starts to cry at the mere 
appearance of the rat, loud clang or no. The fear extends to other furry things 
like a dog and a monkey, animals that previously provoked only mild interest. 
The researchers have taught Little Albert to be afraid.
The experiment was conducted by John Watson in 1920 and was part of the 
psychologist’s attempt to prove that infants are blank slates and therefore 
infinitely malleable. It has been recounted in countless papers and textbooks. 
One of the longstanding mysteries about the experiment, the identity of Little 
Albert, was apparently 
solvedhttps://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2507ff69dc204d238b6aea92c46f4aebURL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.apa.org%2fmonitor%2f2010%2f01%2flittle-albert.aspx
 in 2010 by Hall P. Beck, a psychologist at Appalachian State University. He 
and his co-authors argued that Little Albert was Douglas Merritte, the son of a 
wet-nurse who worked at the Johns Hopkins University, where the experiment was 
carried out. Merritte died in 1925 at age six from convulsions brought on by 
hydrocephalus (also known as “water on the brain”).
Now comes another twist–one that, if accurate, would change how the Little 
Albert experiment is viewed and would cast a darker shadow over the career of 
the researcher who carried it out.
A paper published this 
monthhttps://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2507ff69dc204d238b6aea92c46f4aebURL=http%3a%2f%2fpsycnet.apa.org%2fpsycinfo%2f2012-01974-001%2f
 in the journal  History of Psychology makes the case that Little Albert was 
not, as Watson insisted, “healthy” and “normal.” He was probably neurologically 
impaired. If the baby indeed had a severe cognitive deficit, then his reactions 
to the white rat or the dog or the monkey may not have been typical–certainly 
reaching universal conclusions about human nature based on his reactions 
wouldn’t make sense. The entire experiment, then, would be a case of a 
researcher terrifying a sick baby for no valid scientific reason (not that 
using a healthy baby would have been ethically hunkydory).
But what makes it worse, the authors of the paper argue, is that Watson must 
have known that Little Albert was impaired. This would turn a cruel experiment 
of questionable value into a case of blatant academic fraud.
https://outlook.wcupa.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=2507ff69dc204d238b6aea92c46f4aebURL=http%3a%2f%2fchronicle.com%2fblogs%2fpercolator%2ffiles%2f2012%2f01%2fwatson3.gif
John Watson
One of those authors, Alan Fridlund, read Beck’s paper arguing that Douglas 
Merritte was the baby’s true identity. Fridlund, an associate professor of 
psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, found the argument 
persuasive, and one detail stood out. According to the official story, Merritte 
had died in 1925 after contracting hydrocephalus (also known as “water on the 
brain”) as the result of a bout of meningitis in 1922. That didn’t ring true to 
Fridlund. If Merritte had meningitis severe enough to cause hydrocephalus, he 
believed, it’s doubtful the child would have survived it for so long. The story 
was, at least, suspicious.
Also, when watching the original film of Little Albert, provided by Beck, who 
is a co-author on the paper, Fridlund thought the baby’s reactions were odd. He 
was “alarmingly unresponsive” when first confronted with a monkey or a dog 
(this is prior to the loud clanging). The reactions, Fridlund thought, were 
those of a baby with neurological problems and perhaps poor vision. He 
contacted William D. Goldie, an associate professor of neurology at the 
University of California at Los Angeles, and had him review the tape, not 
telling him in advance that it was of the famous Little Albert experiment. 
Goldie thought the baby might be autistic or suffer from another neurological 
issue. One things was clear, Goldie said: “There’s something already gone 
wrong.”
Next, with the help of Douglas Merritte’s nephew, Gary Irons (also a co-author 
of the paper), Fridlund obtained Merritte’s medical records from Johns Hopkins. 
In them the researchers found further confirmation that 

[tips] Empathy and Prosocial Behavior in Rats

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Empathy and Prosocial Behavior in Rats. Very interesting Who woulda 
thunk (sic) it?



http://www.sciencemag.org/content/334/6061/1427.full



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[tips] (New) Atheism, Scientism and Open-mindedness Workshop

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Michael Sylvester alerted us to the  upcoming workshop on (New) Atheism, 
Scientism and Open-mindedness Workshop

There's no need to attend this workshop as I just received the link to the 
following short video that explains it all. And there's also relevance to the 
are Jews smarter thread.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyaQyuLmUiI



Ed


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RE:[tips] Climbing Mount Everest

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Annette Taylor wrote, ..(the) mere exposure effect is the tendency to 
like something better the more you've been exposed to it.



And thank goodness for that! Without the mere exposure effect I'd have no 
friends at all!! ;-)



Ed



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[tips] Are Jews born smart?

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Michael Sylvester asked  Are Jews born smart?

No, Michael, we're not born smart.  However, we get that way very early in life 
as the result of mandatory attendance at weekly classes in which we are taught 
how to manipulate the world monetary system, control the world media, and make 
a proper New York style Jewish rye bread. Alas, the latter of these is proving 
the most difficult to import into the hinterlands.



And if you have any trouble believing in the existence of such a cabal, all you 
need  do is check any Chinese restaurant on Christmas Day. That's where we hold 
our most important conventions. I know that most gentiles believe that these 
gatherings are primarily held in synagogues but it's a measure of our 
brilliance that we conceal  the true nature of these meetings by making them 
appear to be mere consultations over what to order on a family style Chinese 
menu.  This location also makes it easy to spot anyone who might try to 
infiltrate the deliberations of brethren. The fist person who suggests ordering 
cow mein or chop suey (particularly if ordered as his/her own individual dish) 
has just exposed himself as a spy.  Think of it as a modern Jewish shibboleth.



Ed



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[tips] info:History of Psych

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

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



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Subject: info:History of Psych
From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 09:43:11 -0500
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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?


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[tips] contralateral organization

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Nancy asked, Are ALL human sensory systems organized contralaterally? Or just 
vision and the somatosenory system?



All of the body senses also exhibit contralateral dominance. That is 
certainly true for audition  vision as well.



Olfaction, however, is primarily ipsilateral.  Gustation seems to be bilateral 
but with a marked contralateral dominance.



Ed




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[tips] Eyes Reveal True Hypnotic State for the First Time

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See 
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/10/one-word-technique-produces-first-physical-evidence-of-hypnosis.html



But I remain unconvinced. There's too much evidence that hypnotic subjects 
display the traits that expect to display, whether the hypnotist specifies them 
or not.



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[tips] Who Owns You?

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Mike asked, who owns you?



That's an easy one. The answer is my wife.



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[tips] Mosquitoes as transgender detectives?

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Michael. you really need to stick to areas with which you have even a modicum 
of knowledge. First, estrogen is not a hormone. The estrogens are a class 
of steroid hormones with feminizing effects (in the the adult).  As for the 
estrogen feminizing hormone,  I have no idea what that is. During gestation 
estrogens don't really feminize adult behavior. In fact, there is some evidence 
that increased levels of estrogens in utero might actually masculinize the 
fetal brain. (Pollak, E.I. and Sachs, B.D.  1975.  Masculine sexual behavior 
and morphology: Paradoxical effects of neonatal androgenization. Behavioral 
Biology 13, 401-411.). Second, there is, to my knowledge, no evidence that 
transgenders (or gays) have higher circulating levels of any estrogens in 
adulthood.  There is circumstantial evidence of lower levels of androgenic 
hormones during fetal development but not in adulthood.






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Subject: Mosquitoes as transgender detectives?
From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:45:08 -0400
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There is noted evidence that more females get bitten by mosquitoes than 
males.Apparenly mosquitoes are attracted to estrogen.It would stand to reason 
that transgender types,who report they feel like a female in a male's 
body,probably have a high degree of the estrogen
feminizing hormone,and would invariably attract mosquitoes as well.
The idea of using insects and animals to detect impending futuristic behavior 
is not new.We hear about dogs being able to smell cancer cells or even warn 
about epileptic seizures.

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Re:[tips] Introductory psych transparencies

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

I threw out all of mine. And, Michael, why would you want to covert them to 
digital images when virtually every intro psych text on the market already 
gives you a free CD with the same (albeit updated) images?



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Subject: Re: Re:Introductory psych transparencies
From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 19:25:12 -0400
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I have many sets myself.Do you know if there is any type of device I could feed 
each transparency and rapidly get them on discs? I mean a very high speed 
scanner.
Michael
  - Origi nal Message -
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[tips] Declare major now or pay more

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Michael Sylvester wrote  Florida educational officials are considering a 
proposal that would require students to declare a major during their 
freshperson year or pay more for courses. Apparently it is felt that undeclared 
majors are a burden to the system.(Not sure why). Can the Tips intelligentsia 
weigh in on this?



Can you supply a reference for this Michael? I could find none in a brief 
Google search.

Ed





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re:[tips] antidressants

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Annette wrote, Except in those cases where the problem may truly be 
neurochemical in origin.

As noted earlier, this is the very worst sort of dualistic statement. Annette, 
you need to defend it or retract it!



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Re:[tips] crawling ability and reading

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

I don't have a reference  I don't have time to look for one as I have to leave 
in a few minutes to pick up the pizzas for my 2 YO granddaughter's birthday 
party. However, I remember a study from many years ago that reported a positive 
correlation between the duration of the crawling stage  IQ.



Ed



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[tips] Do we need human jurors?

[Pollak, Edward (Retired)]

Michael Sylvester asked, Why not feed the prosecutor's and defense  data and 
let the computer decide guilt or innocence?



For one thing, the data are remarkably clear that human moral decisions are 
profoundly influenced by gut feelings and other non-factual considerations. 
The classic example would be the oncoming train problem. See 
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/1022/ for a brief description.

Ed



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[tips] cherokee shuffle.......oops

[Pollak, Edward]

Oops. That was supposed to go to my fiddle-L list.  Sorry.



Ed



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Subject: Re: Cherokee Shuffle question
From: Pollak, Edward epol...@wcupa.edu
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 03:48:38 +
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Jim Nelson  wrote, I've heard Cherokee Shuffle played in both keys. The melody 
is very imilar to the Tommy Magness piece Lonesome Indian which is in D. I
suspect that the former was derived from the latter by Tommy Jackson 
...



Thatis, of course, why fiddle tunes have names, i.e., so you can tell them 
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Re:[tips] Cherokee Shuffle question

[Pollak, Edward]

Jim Nelson  wrote, I've heard Cherokee Shuffle played in both keys. The melody 
is very imilar to the Tommy Magness piece Lonesome Indian which is in D. I
suspect that the former was derived from the latter by Tommy Jackson 
...



Thatis, of course, why fiddle tunes have names, i.e., so you can tell them 
apart!

Ed



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RE:[tips] Anonymous Post

[Pollak, Edward]

Robert Flint wrote, It is a slippery slope! We have been asked/required to 
participate in an increasingly growing number of such events over the years. 
While I agree that some recruitment-/conversion-/retention-related activity is 
ok, we are now asked to cover approximately 7 3-hr accepted student/transfer 
advising days over the summer during which we are not under contract, plus 
another 6 or so prospective student and early acceptance events during the 
normal fall/spring academic year.



At my University, Dept. chairs are under a 12 month contract and when I was 
chair I did many of these sessions. But in the years since I have continued to 
do some of these events regardless of whether I was under summer contract. 
Frankly, I view myself as a full time employee and member of the department for 
12 months a year and I get a bit irritated when a faculty members begs off a 
chore because I'm not paid over the summer. We are full time professionals 
and should act  that way. Of course, if one is away on a summer vacation or 
otherwise unable to participate in such activities, that's perfectly fine. But 
to demur simply because one is technically not being paid over the summer 
strikes me as a bit disingenuous. I assume that we all accept our medical and 
other benefits over the summer so let's not be quite so selective.



All that being said, I agree that the number of events Robert mentions is quite 
excessive and goes well beyond what could be reasonably expected of faculty 
whether they are under summer contract or not.  I also agree with others who 
have said that there are tasks from which  we might gracefully bow out. I would 
not, for example, readily agree to phone students for chats. Phone 
communication is not my forte (just ask my wife about my typically monosyllabic 
responses to her calls) and I would probably scare off the poor dears.




Ed

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[tips] No, No, Annette (was data usage)

[Pollak, Edward]

Stephen Black wrote, No, no, Annette, I think you've got it 
backward..



Is that a typo, Stephen? I thought you were referrring to an old 
musical... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No,_No,_Nanette)



Ed



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[tips] Data usage

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Claudia Stanny wrote: Speaking for myself, reading the data is makes me 
cringe, grind my teeth, and reach for a very sharp red pencil! .  When 
I read data a part of me always substitutes words like numbers, observations, 
findings.



Claudia, is it possible that you are a long lost sister of mine? Our 
grammatical sensitivities seem to be identical..   Let's check this hypothesis 
of grammatical kinship with one more pet peeve: It annoys me no end when 
someone says e.g.,  less people buy American-made cars.   To my mind, it 
should be fewer people. If the referent occurs in discrete units (e.g., 
people, cars, trees, doillars, etc.) you use the adjective fewer. But if the 
referent is a more general concept or continuous, less discrete you use the 
word (water, forest, money) less.  So there are fewer trees and there may be 
less forested land. There are more people chasing fewer dollars but more people 
chasing less capital.



This seems obvious to me but it is so often breached that I'm beginning to 
question myself. It's so common to have a colleague say I have less students 
in my class this semester. Or a newscaster says The U.S. sold less cars this 
year. This jars my grammatical sensibilities. So.. am I the only 
one who gets irked by this issue? Surely my purported grammatical soul mate, 
Claudia must have the same reaction.



Ed


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Speaking for myself, reading the data is makes me cringe, grind my teeth,

and reach for a very sharp red pencil!   :-)



[just recently finished editing a slew of data  is constructions to data 
 are in a colleague's prose] When I read data a part of me always 
substitutes words like numbers, observations, findings.  All plural (so far).




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[tips] Sleepwalking

[Pollak, Edward]

Joan asked, Do you respond to your students in such a fashion when they ask a  
question Ed?



In fact, it is one of my cardinal rules to NEVER make a student question sound 
stupid. If necessary, I will go out of my way to rephrase the question in such 
a way that it actually makes it sound as though the student has read and 
understood the basic assignments ahead of time even when the question suggests 
otherwise.



As for Michael's quip that I have observed that Ed seems to make students feel 
stupid by asking questions. This is the second time he has responded to a post 
submitted on behalf of a student and his response has been a put down of the  
student. When is he retiring?



There was no put down of the student in any way, shape or form.. in this or 
in any other post of mine. I merely questioned the premise of the question that 
.. If sleeping is defined as being nonreactive to the environment, how are 
sleepwalkers able to engage in complex tasks (e.g., driving)?  I was 
responding to the instructor, not the student. And generalizing from this 
instructor to instructor exchange to a broad statement on how I make students 
feel in a classroom setting, is just plain ridiculous. It is as silly as my 
suggesting that because Joan  Michael took exception to my initial response, 
they must be the type of authoritarian instructor who tries to intimidate any 
student who disagrees with them. I am most certainly not suggesting that 
because, as I said,  it would be a highly illogical and just plain ridiculous 
generalization.



As for when I plan to retire, the answer is May, 2011. Unlike too many of my 
colleagues, I know when my performance has peaked and I would like to exit 
gracefully at a point not too far below the zenith of my intellectual  
pedagogical prowess. And thanks to a lifetime of relative frugality, a loving 
wife who works her tuchas off,  and a recovering Dow Jones, I can afford to do 
so. (But I still want my daughter to add that mother-in-law apartment to her 
house when they remodel just in case. That Dow Jones guy can be a 
fickle friend  g)



Ed


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[tips] sleepwalking

[Pollak, Edward]

Carla Grayson asked, I'm looking for some information about sleepwalking. A 
question from one of my students: If sleeping is defined as being nonreactive 
to the environment, how are sleepwalkers able to engage in complex tasks (e.g., 
driving)?



Where did you ever get the idea that sleeping involves being nonreactive to 
the environment? Mothers routinely react to the cries of their babies while 
being unreactive to other stimuli of similar intensity. They are clearly 
monitoring their environments while sleeping. Similarly, people routinely 
incorporate environmental stimuli into their dreams. They are clearly reacting 
to environmental stimuli.



You might be able to say that sleep is accompanied by reduced sensitivity to 
environmental stimuli, or highly selective responsiveness. But to say it 
involves nonreactivity is just plain wrong.



Ed



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[tips] Rene Descrates (was It's Official: World ENDS in 2012)

[Pollak, Edward]

Ken Steele wrote . Rene Descartes was sitting at the bar, 
drinking a berr.  The  bartender came over to him and asked whether he would 
like another.  Descartes replied I think not and, immediately  disappeared..

And in the same  vein...

Cogito ergo spud (I think, therefore I yam)
or
Cogito ergo sumo (I think, therefore I am a big, fat wrestler)




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Re:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)

[Pollak, Edward]

Michael Sylvester wrote Maybe someone is trying to get you off the list. It is 
like a prof who finds that his/her office is being moved closer to the parking 
lot every year.



That's quite odd. I've found the exact opposite. The older I get, the farther 
my office seems to be from the parking lot.  And the distances between my 
office and classrooms appear to be getting greater still.

Ed



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RE:[tips] Healing power of pets?

[Pollak, Edward]

Rick Froman wrote, .  if your outcome is a physical measure of 
health, you can see if those pet-lovers exposed to pets have better health 
outcomes than those not exposed to pets.



Rick makes a point that we need to impress on all our students, i.e., the  
importance of interactions. We get so caught up in looking for main effects  
(e.g., pets are good for our health) that we too often fail to look for the 
obvious interactions, (e.g., pets are good for the health of those who love 
pets but not necessarily for the health of non-pet lovers). My old mentor used 
t say that there's no such thing as a main effect. It's a great point.  Even 
something such as the effect of oxygen being necessary for life depends on the 
organism in question.. or the universe in which the effect if being observed. 
So a main effect is really just a  useful fiction.



Ed

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[tips] Bye,bye,Black bird

[Pollak, Edward]

I was quite appalled yesterday when I saw the eminent physicist  science 
popularizer, Michio Kaku, on TV (I think is was CNN) making the analogy between 
the red-wing black birds  lemmings. Arg.

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From: David Hogberg dhogb...@albion.edu
Date: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Subject: Fwd: [tips] Bye,bye,Black bird
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The myth about lemmings jumping of cliffs began when it was portrayed in a
1958 Walt Disney film.  (snopes.com)


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[tips] Healing power of pets?

[Pollak, Edward]

This article is most timely for me, Stephen. I am thinking about getting 
another dog (our last one died about 10 years ago) after I retire in May. Given 
that the little regular exercise I get involves walking to class, I'm thinking 
that perhaps having a dog to walk will force me to at least do a little 
walking. Of course, that prospect loses some of its appeal when I look out the 
window  see my neighbor walking his shih tsus in the cold, slush, snow, and 
rain while carrying a little plastic bag of dog feces.



Ed



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Subject: Healing power of pets?
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:35:23 -0500
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Not so much.

One more for the annals of psychological myth.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/opinion/04herzog.html

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Re:[tips] Minds of Mnemonists: Thanks to Beth

[Pollak, Edward]

Beth Benoit wrote

I thought it was of particular interest that none of the subjects interviewed 
had ever been married, except for Marilu Henner, who had been married three 
times.  The poiAnd thnks nt was made that perhaps not being able to forget 
(arguments, hurt feelings, etc.) may make a long-term relationship more 
difficult. So perhaps my deeply flawed memory may get some credit for my 
husband's and my recent celebration of our 42nd anniversary?



And thanks to Beth's flawed memory for reminding my flawed memory that my 42nd 
anniversary is coming up later this month. She helped me dodge a bullett!  Now, 
if I could get some suggestions for what to buy my bride as an anniversary 
present I may escape the occasion unscathed. g



Ed

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[tips] Hypnotist warms up workers

[Pollak, Edward]

I only wish there was a follow up to this story.



From http://web.orange.co.uk/article/quirkies/Hypnotist_warms_up_workers



Hypnotist warms up workers


A cobbler who won't buy heaters for his freezing staff has had them hypnotised 
into thinking they're warm.

Martin Connellan bought coats for the lads in his workshop after temperatures 
plunged to -13°C, reports The Sun.

But with doors left constantly open to clear solvent fumes, the workers were 
still left shivering in the snow.

But after a five-minute session with hypnotist James Kerwin they have 
reportedly been stripping down to shorts and T-shirts.

Worker Adam Hood, 27, said: I definitely feel much hotter than I was. All my 
life I've had cold hands and that's even gone now. It's crazy how you can go 
from one extreme to the other like that.

Mr Connellan, who runs the workshop in Bromsgrove, Worcs, said: The lads were 
all complaining because I like to keep the doors open.

I bought them all jackets but they were still moaning so this was the last 
resort.

I am a very sceptical person so I didn't think it would work - but soon they 
were complaining about how hot they were.

Mr Kerwin, of Studley, Warwicks, said: It's all about mind over matter. It's a 
case of reprogramming people like you would a computer.

You can retrain people into thinking differently about how they feel. It seems 
to have done the trick.



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[tips] Sham pills may help us—even without the sham

[Pollak, Edward]

This is not surprising to me given that classical conditioning can produce a 
placebo effect in rats. In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, why can't 
any (classically) conditioned stimulus but regarded as a placebo?



Ed



Sham pills may help us—even without the sham

Sham pills, known as place­bos, have been used in count­less med­i­cal stud­ies 
for dec­ades. By com­par­ing their ef­fects to those of real med­i­cines, 
re­search­ers can dis­count the pos­si­bil­ity that the true drugs work mere­ly 
be­cause the idea of hav­ing been treated makes us feel bet­ter.

But re­search­ers say they now seem to have made a sur­prise dis­covery. Not 
only do the fake pills tru­ly make some pa­tients feel im­proved—that much was 
al­ready known—but they can even work when the doc­tors drop any pre­tense that 
this is real med­i­cine.



For more see http://www.world-science.net/othernews/101222_placebo.htm



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RE:[tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

[Pollak, Edward]

I experience these all the time. I keep my cell phone in my breast pocket and 
it's a bit disconcerting given my cardiac history! It happens all the time 
when I'm lecturing, playing fiddle, driving,  etc. But I'm not convinced that 
it doesn't also occur at time when I'm not  carrying a cell phone. After my 
heart attack in 1999 I was understandably sensitive to odd sensations coming 
from my chest and I'm pretty sure these vibrations occurred fairly often. And 
this was before I had a small cell phone that could be carried in shirt pocket.

Ed

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RE:[tips] Let the Countdown Begin

[Pollak, Edward]

The light up tracing board to which my wonderful daughter, Sara, refers is 
her old Barbie Doll Illuminated Tracing Desk. For many years I would use it to 
grade multiple choice exams rather than shlepp across campus to drop them off 
at the computer center, have them run through the grading machine, and then 
have to go back to pick them up hours later.

Alas, the Barbie Doll Tracing Desk has gone the way of all flesh (and plastic). 
Besides, we now have a grading machine in the psych department so I no longer 
need Sara's Barbie doll accessory.

As for Michael's suggestion that my replacement play bluegrass... 
we actually do have one candidate who's learning the banjo. Of course, I had to 
advise him that playing the banjo is not considered a plus in most employment 
settings. Indeed, Mark Twain once (allegedly) defined a gentleman as someone 
who knows how to play the banjo but doesn't.

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Subject: RE: Let the Countdown Begin
From: DeVolder Carol L devoldercar...@sau.edu
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:37:41 -0600
X-Message-Number: 16

Congratulations, Ed. Ooh, and what's a light up tracing board? Can I call 
second dibs on it (whatever it is)?
Carol




Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D.
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Chair, Department of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
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Oooh and I have dibs on my light up tracing board when you finish next semester.

Sara Pollak Levine
Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of the Leadership Academy Honors Program
Fitchburg State University
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[tips] Let the Countdown Begin

[Pollak, Edward]

I expect to retire at the end of the spring, 2011 semester, Next semester, I 
will be teaching my very last courses (1 section of Animal Behavior  2 
sections of Intro to Biopsychology). This past Monday night I gave my very last 
Intro Psych lecture... ever! And tonight at 6 p.m. I give my last Intro 
Psych final..ever. I don't mind telling you all that I am excited 
although I suspect I'll be dragging my aging butt through next semester. It 
will be especially busy  as I'm chairing the committee that is selecting my 
replacement. But the list of this is the last time I'll ever. has 
begun!! (I only wish I'd taken better care of my body!)

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[tips] The state of American Education

[Pollak, Edward]

There's a very important report on the state of education published at:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/department-of-education-study-finds-teaching-these,18461/

I present it without comment.

Ed

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[tips] Question on sleep

[Pollak, Edward]

I distinctly remember reading that there are some (very few) people for whom it 
is normal to get an hour or less sleep per night. I remember one case cited in 
which the subjected needed only 15 minutes and reported resenting having that 
little slice of death intrude on his day. A colleague I asked also remembers 
reading that some rare people do quite well with less than 1 hour/night.

I've tried a Goggle search and a Google scholar search with no success. The 
reports I remember may be too old for those data bases or perhaps it was in a 
secondary source text. My searches for minimum sleep, hyposomnia, asomnia 
and many other things bring up lots of studies on apnea, sleep deprivation 
studies, bipolar disorder, etc., but nothing that speaks to the point. Can 
anyone out there help with a reference? It's driving me nuts.

Ed

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[tips] Colors affecting behavior

[Pollak, Edward]

Kimberly C. Patterson asked Does anyone know of a study where colors of a room 
affect students?

When a student asks me such a question I tell them to do a Google or Google 
Scholar search. I try to help them [pick out the best key words but I much 
prefer they learn how to do it themselves. In this case I just searched for 
colors mood psychology and got a number of excellent hits. Give it a try. 
It's what we should be teaching our students to do. Frankly, it's a little 
embarrassing when a colleague has to ask such questions. 

Ed

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Re:[tips] Who's on first?

[Pollak, Edward]

1) Chimps are apes. They are NOT monkeys
2) They were eating termites (more closely related to cockroaches than to ants)
3) The young female Japanese macaque who invented potato washing also invented 
a technique for separating wheat from sand. She was something of a monkey 
genius.
4) The NOVA program, Ape Genius, opens with a clip of a population of 
chimpanzees  who have developed the tradition of playing in small pools of 
water.

On a related note, there are recent documented reports of bonobos using spears 
to catch and kill bush babies. They make the spears and use them to kill bush 
babies hiding in hollow trees.

And as long as we're talking about animal behavior and unusual diets, see
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQOQdBLHrLk. If this hot link doesn't work, try 
copy/pasting bit into your browser.

Ed




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RE:[tips] diploma mills

[Pollak, Edward]

Annette Taylor wrote, Well, I did not get the message without the telephone 
number so something else must be rotten. Darn. Now I'm really dying to know 
what's in it.

The obvious answer is that your spam filters have free will and have now 
decided to use that free will to perplex you.

Ed

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Re:[tips] Memort execise for Alzheimers?

[Pollak, Edward]

Even if they did improve on the Stroop  test, you would have to have another 
dependent variable (at least one) to ascertain that you were improving memory 
(or any aspect of cognition) rather than merely improving performance on the 
Stroop test.

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[tips] Tenure Treack POsition in Biopsychology/Animal Bavior: West Chester University of Pennsylvania

[Pollak, Edward]

Description: Join a vibrant campus community whose excellence is reflected in 
its diversity and student success. West Chester University (WCU) of 
Pennsylvania, located 35 miles west of Philadelphia, is seeking applicants for 
a Biological Psychologist - tenure track Assistant Professor beginning in fall 
2011. The Department of Psychology is comprised of 21 full-time faculty and 
serves over 600 undergraduate majors and 100 master’s degree students.  
Additional information is available at http://www.wcupa.edu.

Requirements: Candidates must have an active program of research in animal 
behavior and/or biopsychology (with a focus on research with animals) and must 
involve graduate and/or undergraduate students in this research.  Candidates 
must have a commitment to teaching courses in biological psychology, animal 
behavior, and associated laboratory courses.  Preferences will be given to 
candidates who are also interested in teaching research methods.  Completion of 
a PhD in biological psychology, comparative psychology, or related area is 
required before the start of the Fall 2011 semester. Finalists must 
successfully complete on-campus interview and present a colloquium to 
demonstrate teaching and research excellence.

Please send a letter identifying courses you are prepared to teach, curriculum 
vitae, 3 letters of references, no more than 3 reprints or preprints, a 
statement of teaching philosophy and a statement of research interests to: Dr. 
Edward Pollak, Search Committee Chair, Department of Psychology, West Chester 
University, West Chester, PA 19383. Review of applications will begin on 
December 1, 2010 and continue until the position is filled. Developing and 
sustaining a diverse faculty and staff advances WCUs educational mission and 
strategic Plan for Excellence. The University is an Affirmative Action Equal 
Opportunity Employer. Women and minorities are particularly encouraged to 
apply. The filling of this position is contingent upon available funding.


All offers of employment are subject to and contingent upon satisfactory 
completion of all pre-employment criminal background and consumer reporting 
checks.

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[tips] FW: Language

[Pollak, Edward]

I guess the Whorffian Hypothesis is still alive and 
kicking 

Lost in Translation 
New cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way 
people see the world; a different sense of blame in Japanese and Spanish

http://tinyurl.com/2cebmgd


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From: Jeremiah Davis [jdavi...@elp.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:23 AM
To: Pollak, Edward; Mary Lovein; Lynn Raw
Subject: Language

http://tinyurl.com/2cebmgd
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[tips] Google Scholar vs. PsycInfo

[Pollak, Edward]

Can you access  PsycInfo without a University site license? I'm guessing the 
answer is no. If that's the case, then Google Scholar has a MAJOR edge. Once 
students leave academia they have a resource (GS) they can use for years. You 
have taught them to fish. But with PsycInfo, you may have taught them to fish 
but they no longer have access to a rod  reel!!

Ed

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[tips] Memorable Summer Reading

[Pollak, Edward]

Mike Palij wrote. .Looking over these entries (in The NY Times has 
a special section on Summer Reading), I thought back to a couple of books that 
made an impression on me and that stand out in my memory.  They are: (1) B.F. 
Skinner's Beyond Freedom and Dignity(2) David Morrell's (1971) 
First Blood

I, too, was greatly influence by Beyond Freedom  Dignity as well as by 
Walden II but I must confess that a number of years ago I reread Walden II 
and found myself tsk tsking about it's naiveté. I had a similar reaction to 
re-reading Asimov's Foundation series. There are so many books that had such 
a great impact on me as a callow youth that I now dare not reread for fear of 
disappointment.

So here's the question: Did these books have such a great impact at first 
reading because they were great eye-opening  mind-expanding books? Or through 
the jaundiced filter of the intervening decades do we realize that they were 
embarrassingly naive. I like to think they were still great books.

Ed

P.S. This discussion makes me so truly sad for the legions of current students 
who, when asked if they read books for fun as children, look at me like am a 
raving lunatic.



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[tips] The evolution of emotion: Charles Darwin's little-known psychology experiment

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-evolution-of-emotion-charles-da-2010-05-24
or
http://tinyurl.com/2bvrzrk

The evolution of emotion: Charles Darwin's little-known psychology experiment

Charles Darwin is famous for his prolific writing about biology. In addition to 
publishing his theory of evolution, Darwin wrote books about coral reefs, 
earthworms and carnivorous plants. But the eminent naturalist made important 
contributions to more than just the life sciences. It turns out Darwin was also 
an early experimental psychologist.

Darwin conducted one of the first studies on how people recognize emotion in 
faces, according to new archival research by Peter Snyder, a neuroscientist at 
Brown University. Snyder's findings rely on biographical documents never before 
published; they now appear in the May issue of the Journal of the History of 
the Neurosciences.

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RE:[tips] Whatever happened to pilot studies?

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You're really just restating what I said, Marc, albeit with a somewhat 
different slant/emphasis. You say, You don't start sloppy -- you set things up 
according to what the literature and your hypotheses tell you, and you exercise 
control as you would with any research.  That's really all I was trying to 
say. i.e., If you get lucky and the parameters are right, you've got yourself a 
potentially publishable study but plenty of these studies will become pilot 
studies.

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Subject: RE: Whatever happened to pilot studies?
From: Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:42:54 -0500
X-Message-Number: 6

If you know what parameter settings you need in order to show the effect, then, 
sure, no need to pilot.

But I know in attention and depth perception research (the two areas I'm most 
familiar with), it's rare to run a study without having to play with any 
parameters.  You don't start sloppy -- you set things up according to what the 
literature and your hypotheses tell you, and you exercise control as you would 
with any research.

I always felt that pilot work wasn't wasted, but taught me about what the 
source of the effect was.  You go in with an idea that something should do 
something, but you have to play with it a while to figure it out.  Calling it 
pilot research sort of demeans it -- it's really empirical research.

But I sure never thought of it as a waste.  That's how I learned what was doing 
what.

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[tips] FW: Whatever happened to pilot studies?

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My thesis adviser taught me never run a pilot study.  His point was that you 
should start to do every study as clean  neat as possible and assume that it 
will work. Certainly, many of these studies will turn into pilot studies when 
problems crop up but to start out assuming it's a pilot study is just wasting 
time  energy. There is, IMO, a fair amount of wisdom in this approach.

Ed

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[tips] Freud's Birthday

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Here are the lyrics to Dr. Freud that I remember Pete Seeger doing in the 
early 60s.  You can even get it for your ringtone at 
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/song-midis/Dr._Freud.htm


DR. FREUD
(David Lazar)

Oh, it happened in Vienna, not so very long ago,
When not too many folks were getting sick
That a starving young physician tried to better his position
By discovering what made his patients tick

Oh, Dr. Freud, oh, Dr. Freud
How I wish that you'd been otherwise employed
For the set of circumstances sure enhances the finances
Of the followers of Dr Sigmund Freud.

He forgot about sclerosis, but invented the psychosis
And a hundred ways that sex could be enjoyed
He adopted as his credo, Down repression, up libido
And that was the start of Dr.Sigmund Freud.

Now he analyzed the dreams of the teens and libertines
And he substituted monologues for pills
He drew crowds just like Wells Sadler, when along came Jung 
Adler
Who said, By God, there's gold in them thar ills

They encountered no resistance when they served as Freud's
assistants
As with Ego and with Id, they deftly toyed
And instead of toting bedpans, they bore analytic deadpans
Those ambitious doctors, Adler, Jung, and Freud

Now the big three have departed  not so the cult they started
It's been carried on by many a goodly band
And to trauma, shock, and more shock, someone went and added
Rorshach
Now the thing has got completely out of hand

Now old men with double chinseys and a million would be Kinseys
Will discuss it at the drop of a repression
I wouldn't be complaining, but for all the dough I'm paying
To lie on someone's couch and say confession

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[tips] Mediation over talk therapy

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Joan Warmbold asked,  where is the indisputable scientific foundation that all 
disorders are  biologically brain based?  and then she asked, But how much 
longer are we psychologists willing to allow ourselves to be partner to 
political correctness as opposed to looking at the data of the impact of early 
experience on the development of an infant's brain. 

I'm confused. Either you are dualist and believe that there are 
behaviors/disorders that are not brain-based or you are a monist who 
understands that early experience affects later behavior only altering brain 
function (including transmitters). There seems to be the implication that if 
early experience played a role, then psychopharmacological treatments will be 
ineffective and that other therapies are called for. There is, of course, no 
evidence for this assertion.

When I read the article in question, my response was a bit more nuanced. I said 
to myself, Well, DUH!  As both an empiricist and monist I understand that 
successful treatment involves altering brain function and that might sometimes 
involve using drugs and sometimes using more environmental interventions.

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[tips] Genetics autism

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Here's a recent study..
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/headlines/54849/Study_adds_to_evidence_that_autism_has_genetic_basis.html

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Re:[tips] Retrograde Amnesia

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First, I don't understand why people are referring to this as a retrograde 
amnesia. Wouldn't it be better described as dissociative amnesia or fugue 
state?

As for the similarities to Clive Wearing, I think they are more apparent than 
real. Clive did NOT lose all all of his former memories.  From the video it 
is obvious that he remembers his wife. It is also obvious that he remembers at 
least one of his former colleagues. In the scene where he enters the choral 
practice room, he greets one of the singers with a kiss and clearly seems to 
recognize her.

They do note that at one point he forgot his daughter's name but that  was 
likely due to a general state of confusion at the height of the encephalitis 
and the implication was that this bit of amnesia was only temporary.

Ed

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Subject: Re: Re:Retrograde Amnesia

From: Joan Warmbold jwarm...@oakton.edu

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:44:27 -0500 (CDT)

X-Message-Number: 19



Hmmm, I think you folks are making premature conclusions and believe, to

the contrary, that this is a plausible case.  First, his head injury did

not appear to be mild but fairly severe.   Relative to questioning his

ability to still have language skills, a perfect analogy is Clive Wearing

who lost almost all of his former memories but can still play the piano as

well as lead a choral group at the same superb skill level he exhibited

before he lost most of his memories.  The doctors also provided a fairly

logical explanation of how the blood flow in his brain has been severely

disrupted and that such could help explain his extensive memory loss.  As

we all know, there are different types of memories and he appears to have

lost all of his episodic/semantic memories but such does not mean he could

not have have retained his more implicit memories of what objects are,

such as chairs, tables and rice.  And loss of former memories more than a

few hours can't be all that rare.  I had two students who experienced

fairly extensive retrograde amnesia due to head trauma, one fellow who

lost all of his high school memories and another who had lost the last 5

years of his life.  Until we all know more about his medical records and

the extent of the brain trauma, it seems quite unreasonable to question

the authenticity of his memory loss due based on the lawsuit against his

former employer.  I doubt that a person would need to exhibit total

retrograde memory loss to have grounds for a law suit that resulted in

fairly serious brain injury.  Until we have more of the facts, I feel it

is quite unjustified to accuse this man of faking it for ulterior

motives.



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RE:[tips] Do Jews Form a Race

[Pollak, Edward]

We can stop arguing about this now. The issue has been resolved in a new movie 
set to open at the end of this month in Great Britain. The movie is called, 
The Infidel and you can view the trailer at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMudF0MQgC0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMudF0MQgC0

Ed


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[tips] FW: you are awesome!

[Pollak, Edward]

With all the complaining we do about students, I just had to share the note I 
just received from of my intro psych students. And for the record, She only got 
a C+ on exam #1  a B on exam #2. It made my day!


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From: XXX
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 7:57 PM
To: Pollak, Edward
Subject: you are awesome!
Dr. Pollak,

I was re-reading the syllabus online when I noticed the words extra credit in 
bold; so, naturally, I read what it said:

There is no extra credit. you either learn the material or you don't. The 
idea of allowing a failing student to do some alternative assignment in lieu of 
actually learning the material is, in my opinion, simply ridiculous.

Dr. Pollak, you are awesome. I am pretty sure reading that just made my day. 
Just thought I'd let you know! See you tomorrow for the exam.

Cheers,

XXX
Chemistry-Biology, 2012

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RE:[tips] I need a break...

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Louis Schmier wrote, Carol, as it happened, that very thing happened today.  
It was just one of those days.  I just wasn't in the mood.  I walked into 
class, small talked a few minutes, and told them I wasn't in the mood like 
sometimes they aren't.  Let's go home, I said.  We did.  It doesn't do any 
good, it accomplishes nothing, if you force it; if you're there physically but 
aren't there emotionally or mentally.

I find that action to be extraordinarily unprofessional. Aside from the fact 
that many students have driven an hour to get to the class or invested in the 
class in other ways, I know that I cannot afford to voluntarily give up any of 
my valuable class time for such a silly reason. I don't know about others but I 
NEVER have enough time to get through everything  I want to get through in a 
semester. In any other employment setting, that sort of cavilier attitude would 
get you fired. Louis is all about teaching life lessons and responsibility. I 
seriously doubt that this episode would teach anything other than, If I don't 
feel like doing something, I don't have to bother even if it adversely affects 
others.



Just FYI, I have never missed a class for any but the most dire situations. I 
taught all this week with an excrutiatingly painful dry socket after a tooth 
extraction. I taught the day after my vasectomy (against doctors orders but I 
probably should have listened to him). I even taught 2 classes while having a 
heart attack. The idea of not teaching because I just didn't feel like it is 
pretty outrageous to me. If I found that temp or probationary faculty member 
had done that, there would be hell to pay.



Ed



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[tips] Porn: Good for us? - The Scientist - Magazine of the Life Sciences

[Pollak, Edward]

This is an article by Milton Diamond. Aside from the fact that it's 
interesting, it might be a great springboard for discussions of correlation  
causation. Diamond argues that pornography reduces rates of sex crimes.

http://www.the-scientist.com/2010/3/1/29/1/


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[tips] Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

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Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

East Stroudsburg University has suspended Gloria Gadsden, a sociology 
professor, for joking comments she posted on her Facebook page that apparently 
were taken seriously, The Pocono 
Recordhttp://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/NEWS/2260344
 reported. One comment was about wanting to hire a hit man. Another said had a 
good day today, DIDN'T want to kill even one student :-). Now Friday was a 
different story. Gadsden said that in the meeting where she was told of the 
suspension, a dean referenced last month's murders at the University of Alabama 
in Huntsville. Gadsden said that the humor was clear to her Facebook friends 
and she doesn't know why the university was monitoring her account. University 
officials said that they did not routinely monitor Facebook accounts and that 
they couldn't discuss details of Gadsden's case.

See http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/NEWS/2260344

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Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent

[Pollak, Edward]

Oustanding post, John. I hereby nominate you for Tipster of the 
week... although I have gotten a lot of pleasure sending this 
article to my right wing friends.

Ed


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Re: [tips] Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent
John Kulig
Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:58:05 -0800

Well  it's an intriguing hypothesis, and though I usually have
knee-jerk
'yes' responses to anything evolutionary, could it simply be that more
intelligent people think more, therefore more likely to have thoughts
out of
the main-stream?

Also, it's quite a stretch to associate conservative with religion over
even a
short time and space. Religion  liberalism are often tied together -
in
Australia, for instance, where the % of religious people is very low,
but those
who are religious are into social justice. Know a visitor from
Australia who
was puzzled by the religion-conservative link in the US. Perhaps being
religious there is a novel idea.

There is so much diversity under the terms conservative and
religious as to
make the claims superficial. Just a few examples: What passes for
conservative
today in the US (very ideological) bears little resemblance to what
conservative was to the founder of modern conservatism (Edmund Burke)
whose
conservatism took the form of criticizing mob rule after the French
Revolution (as well as its ideological thinking) (no doubt HE was
intelligent
and was simply going against the zeitgeist?). The same can be said of
religion,
to lump the tremendous variety, from orthodox liturgical practices to
the
highly individualistic practices of some christian churches, not to
mention the
interesting practice of lumping wild sex into religious practices
(Rasputin
tied his spiritual/ Russian Orthodox beliefs to some great parties I
hear).
Religiously conservative black churches in the US are sometimes hot
beds of
social liberal activism. And Catholic 'liberation theology' is
radically left
and socialistic. What is the common thread between all these things?
Having a
solid operational definition of these terms would help (there are some,
not
sure they are universally accepted). I suspect it is easier
operationalizing
spirituality that religiosity and atheism.

No doubt we can empirically get average data for these terms, but
statisticians sometimes remind us that averages can be applied
inappropriately,
as when we correctly say that the average American has one testicle and
one
ovary :-)

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[tips] Alternating hemispheric REM

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michael sylvester  wrote, A species of dolphins in India have  a unique way of 
sleeping: they alternate REM in both hem-when one side of the brain is asleep 
the other side is awake. This could be construed as a survival tragedy to 
prevent drowning.



Actually, unilateral sleep is not at all uncommon. It's been described in 
cetaceans, pinnipeds, and the sirenidae as well as in birds. Many birds do it. 
I rember a neat study that found that when birds are sleeping in a row (e.g., 
ducks on a log or pigeons on a ledge), the birds in the middle of the row 
exhibit sleep in both hemispheres while those on the ends sleep with only one 
hemisphere and which hemisphere dends on which end of the row they are on. The 
idea is that you want to keep vigilance on the side on which you have no 
neighbor.



e.g., See Unilateral Eye Closure and Interhemispheric EEG Asymmetry during 
Sleep in the Pigeon (Columba livia)
Niels C. Rattenborg, Charles J. Amlaner, Steven L. Lima
http://content.karger.com/produktedb/produkte.asp?typ=fulltextfile=bbe58323


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