Re:[tips] Professors Gone Paperless :: Inside Higher Ed

2008-04-17 Thread Allen Esterson
On 16 April 2008 Stephen Black wrote: Interestingly, Dewey attributes the source of Freud's id to one Georg Groddick in his The Book of It, a claim I haven't seen before. Astoundingly, Wikipedia claims that Freud, well-known for anal-retentiveness where credit is concerned, actually himself

[tips] Is Homosexuality a Choice YouTube animation

2008-04-17 Thread FRANTZ, SUE
Speaking of Freud... he makes a guest appearance in this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMjXucTFaM -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College PsychologyDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tips] Is Homosexuality a Choice YouTube animation

2008-04-17 Thread Mark A. Casteel
Thanks Sue for the video link. It's perfect for my introductory psychology class. -- Mark At 10:21 AM 4/17/2008, you wrote: Speaking of Freud... he makes a guest appearance in this short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMjXucTFaMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYMjXucTFaM -- Sue

[tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Msylvester
Proponents of the hereditary basis of homosexuality seem to argue that the behavior extends to the animal kingdom. However it is also known(particuliarly in rats) that male animals will mount other male animals that carry female pheronomic variables.This would seem to indicate that a male rat

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread sblack
On 17 Apr 2008 at 15:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proponents of the hereditary basis of homosexuality seem to argue that the behavior extends to the animal kingdom. However it is also known(particuliarly in rats) that male animals will mount other male animals that carry female

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Ken Steele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proponents of the hereditary basis of homosexuality seem to argue that the behavior extends to the animal kingdom. However it is also known(particuliarly in rats) that male animals will mount other male animals that carry female pheronomic variables.This would seem

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Raymond Rogoway
But isn't this behavior common among many, many other species? It seems remote that in all cases it is caused by pheromones being left on the animal from a female. R. Rogoway On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Ken Steele wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Proponents of the hereditary basis of

[tips] [Fwd: Insomnia, mirror neurons and the recanting of bluster]

2008-04-17 Thread Christopher D. Green
Ramachandran backs off on his earlier (silly) claims about mirror neurons. http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/04/insomnia_mirror_neu.html Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Kathy Morgan
Maybe this has already been discussed in this thread and I missed it, but as an animal behaviorist, I can tell you that mounting is a common form of dominance behavior that can have nothing whatsoever to do with sex. Same-sex mounting most likely has very little to do with sexual preference

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Msylvester
It has been said if one looks for some behavior to occur,one will eventually find it.This criticism has been applied to some of the studies of British ethologist Jane Goodal (sp).Simply if one goes about looking for certain behavior to occur it will be made to occur. There is also the question

RE: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread DeVolder Carol L
My female puppy keeps mounting a stuffed (plush) duck. I have no idea of the sex of the duck, but it drives me nuts. I don't think it says anything about her sexual 'preference' though. Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University

Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread Msylvester
- Original Message - From: Raymond Rogoway [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 5:11 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals But isn't this behavior common among many, many other

RE: [tips] Skeptical about gay animals

2008-04-17 Thread FRANTZ, SUE
I will point the interested to this source: Bagemihl, B. (1999). Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity. Of course there is no way to know the inner life of any of these animals, but the observations are interesting nonetheless. -- Sue Frantz  

[tips] Born without a corpus callosum

2008-04-17 Thread FRANTZ, SUE
Four-year-old Tara has a very special brain. Like Rain Man, she was born without a Corpus Callosum. It's the head's superhighway -- a thick band of nerve fibres connecting the two hemispheres of the brain. Join Natasha Mitchell as she experiences a day in the life of the Ingerson family, with

[tips] Is Homosexuality a Choice YouTube animation

2008-04-17 Thread Pollak, Edward
Mark wrote, Thanks Sue for the video link. It's perfect for my introductory psychology class. As much as I liked the animation, I'd recommend against using it in an intro course, Mark. Had they not named the protagonist Christian you could get away with it. But as it stands, it's just too