[tips] CBC News: Most Americans don't know Canada is their biggest oil supplier

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher D. Green
My small effort to dispel the phenomenon named in the headline... http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2006/06/27/energy.html -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.yorku.ca/christo

[tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data.....

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Palij
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:17:40 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: we may as well place doubt on whether cognitive processes are data. Are you turning behaviorist on us Michael? I'm sure that there are still enough hardcore behaviorists around that would argue that non-observable cognitive processes

[tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data.....

2006-06-28 Thread Scott Lilienfeld
Hi Mike: Two points of friendly dissent. (1) First, I don't really know what you mean when you say that self-report tends to be unreliable. For one thing, psychometricians recognize that there are at least three classical ways of operationalizing reliability (internal consistency,

[tips] Group Dynamics activities

2006-06-28 Thread tarnern
Hi all, I will be teaching a five-week course this summer on Group Dynamics. I have never taught the course before and was wondering if any of you have taught the course, then maybe you could give me some ideas for group discussions or activities to do during class. This course is a four-hour

[tips] Re: Belief in science is faith

2006-06-28 Thread Marc Carter
Yeahbbut --I still see the replies Sigh. This "Science is just anotherreligion" tripe is starting to bug me. Enough people have written about it and addressed it that one would think it would have trickled all the way down, and we wouldn't be seeing it anymore. The statement "Science

[tips] Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread Stephen Black
First my credentials: I'm not a smoker and have little regard for this loathsome habit. I've paid no attention to the second-hand smoke debate, although I rejoice in the new law which just came into effect in Quebec to ban smoking in restaurants and other public places. Yet I assume that

[tips] CALL For Proposals Teaching at SPSP

2006-06-28 Thread Gurung, Regan
CALL FOR PROPOSALS for the 5th SPSP Teaching Preconference Memphis, TN, January 25th, 2007 Join Keynote Speaker David Buss- Teaching about Evolutionary Psychology: What's Hot. Submissions of 30-50 minute presentations relating to teaching in general and social and personality in particular are

[tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data.....

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Brandon
Title: [tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data. At 10:38 AM -0400 6/28/06, Scott Lilienfeld wrote: (2) Second, and perhaps Chris Green or other TIPS historians can weigh in on this, I believe that you're using the term methodological behaviorism incorrectly or at least in a different way

[tips] RE: CBC News: Most Americans don't know Canada is their biggest oil supplier

2006-06-28 Thread Shearon, Tim
Nothing much below re psychology- nor should most of it be taken at all seriously! Well. Is this what some conservatives really fear? That we'll be held economic hostage by our benign Canadian neighbors? I hear the senarios coming. The Canadians are causing global warming (opps! I mean climate

[tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data.....

2006-06-28 Thread Mike Palij
On Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:38 AM, Scott Lilienfeld wrote: Subject: Re: [tips] Re: if hallucinations are not data. Hi Mike: Two points of friendly dissent. Hi Scott, no problem. (1) First, I don't really know what you mean when you say that self-report tends to be unreliable. Sorry

[tips] Re: Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Brandon
Title: Re: [tips] Second-hand smoke and health At 10:50 AM -0400 6/28/06, Stephen Black wrote: Anyway, I checked PubMed, and there's surprisingly little there. If second-hand smoke does cause health hazards, there should be a correlation between exposure and health problems (as a necessary but

[tips] Pentagon says homosexuality not a mental disorder - Yahoo! News

2006-06-28 Thread Christopher D. Green
Oops, uh, we didn't mean it. Sorry... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060628/pl_nm/arms_usa_gays_dc_1;_ylt=AnoRaKOXsiHK1wXFTWciC0BsbEwB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-5115 ex. 66164 [EMAIL

[tips] Re: Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread William Scott
I found the CRS (Congressional Research Service) report on ETS (Evironmental Tobacco Smoke) to be worth a complete reading. It can be found at: http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/crs11-95.htm They concluded that the science is very definitely not conclusive, and it appears that the studies

[tips] Re: Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread Paul Brandon
At 4:22 PM -0400 6/28/06, William Scott wrote: I found the CRS (Congressional Research Service) report on ETS (Evironmental Tobacco Smoke) to be worth a complete reading. It can be found at: http://www.forces.org/evidence/files/crs11-95.htm They concluded that the science is very definitely

[tips] Re: Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread David Epstein
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Paul Brandon went: Searching on passive smoking dose response came up with: Respir Res. 2005 Feb 8;6(1):13. Extent of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its dose-response relation to respiratory health among adults. Good find. And for a potentially

[tips] RE: Faith in Science

2006-06-28 Thread Wendi K. Born
I would like to clarify my earlier post. I did not equate science with religion. Nor did I intend to imply anything about how I make my personal choices. People who put their faith in God as the best way to answer questions and solve problems often make choices that would be disapproved by

[tips] RE: Faith in Science

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Scoles
Do you really value science out of faith? Or, do you value science because you see that it advances knowledge? If it stopped doing that, I bet that you no longer value it. If that's true, you're belief in science is not based on faith. Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of

[tips] Re: Second-hand smoke and health

2006-06-28 Thread Joan Warmbold
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/health/28smoke.html?ex=115164en=0bee890d281bb3b3ei=5070 Hope you can access this article from the New York Times as it supports the problems with second hand smoke, just FYI. Joan [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 4:22 PM -0400 6/28/06, William Scott wrote: I found