Thank you for this link, Rick.
The link to the video showing Stephen Suomi (including the usual horrific
video of Harry Harlow) offers an interesting addition to our classes.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New Hampshire
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Rick Froman
A colleague forwarded me an article on the orchid hypothesis:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/dobbs-orchid-gene
It seems that the nurture assumption might be appropriate in that parents can
have an impact on children within limitations of their genetic makeup.
Does anyone have any though
Hi Marie - Had inexplicably missed the fact that "saggital" was in quotation
marks and was thus apparently misspelled by Gladwell, not Pinker. If so, I
stand corrected.thanks.Scott
From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [helw...@dickinson.edu]
Sent: Sunday,
The word sagittal (misspelled) was in quotes in the Pinker essay. So presumably
it was misspelled by Gladwell not Pinker. I don't think the New York Times uses
[sic]. I guess we would need to check the book to know for sure who misspelled
it.
Marie
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���In relation to this article:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/gladwell-200912
Mike Palij wrote [snip]
> Perhaps what I like least about Gladwell's writing is
> when he comes off like a snarky intellectual version
> of Larry King, AS HE DOES IN THIS THROWAWAY
> ARTICLE. (emphas
In addition to critical reviews, try assessing to see if she is just
sympathetic to the general idea of so-called positive thinking and wants to
believe in the power of the mind (psychobabble enough but typical of
psychologists), or does she find the book personally transformative and
mystical
Colleagues,
I would like to inform you of the publication this year of the paperback
edition of my biography of Stanley Milgram, "The man who shocked the world:The
life and legacy of Stanley Milgram".(Basic Books, 2009)
Since the original, hardback, edition came out about 5 years ago, thi
Hi Annette: See
http://www.mindpowernews.com/SkepticSecret.htm
...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
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I have a student in my honors intro course who just lives by the Secret.
I tried to tell her that it was a ridiculous premise (I may have even called it
that, yes, my very bad--I just get so upset over highly capable students who
swallow this stuff without thinking it through).
Although there
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:31:48 -0800, Christopher D. Green Wrote:
>Mike,
>
>That's a little like comparing a scholarly treatise on life in neolithic
>times with the old Reiner & Brooks "2000 Year Old Man" routine with ("We
>spoke Rock." "Really, could you give me an example of Rock?" "Yeah. 'Hey
>
Mike,
That's a little like comparing a scholarly treatise on life in neolithic
times with the old Reiner & Brooks "2000 Year Old Man" routine with ("We
spoke Rock." "Really, could you give me an example of Rock?" "Yeah. 'Hey
you, don't throw that Rock at me'.") Of course, Mike has never had a
Hi Everyone,
We are pleased to announce that an ONLINE version of the 3-credit course,
Becoming a Teacher of Statistics, will be offered during spring semester,
2010, through the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of
Minnesota. This is a 16-week course. Spring semester wil
On Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:52:48 -0800, Allen Esterson wrote:
>Malcolm Gladwell discusses Christmas with Craig Brown.
>
> http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/12/gladwell-200912
Perhaps what I like least about Gladwell's writing is when he comes
off like a snarky intellectual version of La
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