[tips] Why "It's The Day The U.S. Supreme Court Rendered the Dred Scott Decision Day"!

As the NY Times observes in its "On This Day": http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0306.html#article For those unfamiliar with the "Dred Scott Decision", there is an entry on Wikipedia (standard disclaimers apply): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott_Decision Quoting fro

RE: [tips] [Fwd: More stats humour from xkcd]

Chris, Your sense of humor is a bit "skewed." ' Jim Jim Matiya Florida Gulf Coast University jmat...@fgcu.edu Contributor, for Karen Huffman's Psychology in Action, Video Guest Lecturettes John Wiley and Sons. Using David Myers' texts for AP Psychology? Go to http://bcs.worthpublishe

[tips] stats cartoon

Chris, Awesome. Thanks. Here is the web address for the cartoon http://xkcd.com/552/ Jon === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.muelle

[tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory

There's an interesting opinion piece by JoAnn Wypijewski in _The Nation_ Feb 25th on the Paul Shanley case, the infamous street priest convicted of child sexual abuse. Ho-hum. But Ms. W. gives it an interesting twist. He was convicted on the basis of repressed memory evidence, which research in

Re: [tips] Why "It's The Day The U.S. Supreme Court Rendered the Dred Scott Decision Day"!

On 6 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Mike Palij wrote: > As the NY Times observes in its "On This Day": > http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0306.html#article > > For those unfamiliar with the "Dred Scott Decision", there is an > entry on Wikipedia (standard disclaimers apply): > http://e

Re: [tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory

Unless I am experiencing a "false memory" myself, I could have sworn I saw Elizabeth Loftus on Court TV testifying in that very case as an expert witness for the defense. I am surprised it wasn't mentioned in the article. Valerie J. Eastman, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology Department o

Re: [tips] Paul Shanley case and repressed memory

On 6 Mar 2009 at 11:48, Valerie Eastman wrote: > Unless I am experiencing a "false memory" myself, I could have sworn I saw > Elizabeth Loftus on Court TV testifying in that very case as an expert > witness for the defense. I am surprised it wasn't mentioned in the > article. No false memory the

[tips] Creative use of Language--sort of teaching related

Now I am cutting and pasting in one of those email jokes that we all get from friends only because (a) it's Friday; (b) spring break starts right now for me! (c) I love Tips; (d) and this is teaching related. All the politics aside it's amazing how many creative uses of language emerge from thi