RE: [tips] External reviewers for our undergraduate program?

The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (APA Div 2), in cooperation with APA's Education Directorate, offers a Department Consulting Service that does program reviews. See http://teachpsych.org/otrp/deptconsult.php. Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Co

[tips] Simulated hallucinations

Hi all, Here are simulated visual and auditory hallucinations produced by Janssen Pharmaceuticals: http://www.janssen.com/janssen/mindstorm_video.html Note that this video was apparently made for use in a workshop, thus the reference to olfactory hallucinations and flagging a facilitator i

RE: [tips] H.M. online

You can get a little more information about what they're doing and why here: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hmblog/?cat=17 Note particularly in the "Not-So-White-Matter" post the use of gelatin (although it doesn't penetrate the tissue). Sue -- Sue Frantz  

[tips] HM brain dissection: Live, 8am PT

Hi all, You can watch HM's brain being thin-sliced, happening live: http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hm_live.php They started yesterday, reaching the corpus callosum. They plan to resume at 8am PT today. (Thanks to the Teaching High School Psych blog for the announcement: http://te

RE: [tips] nifty psych gift

Guess where your friends and family fall on the Kinsey Scale, and get them a t-shirt. http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/services/scale_tshirt.html That couldn't possibly go wrong. -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator 

[tips] Book group: The College Fear Factor

Hi all, Last week Chris Green pointed us to the new book, The College Fear Factor. "Despite best intentions, today's first-generation college students and their professors 'misunderstand and ultimately fail one another' in the classroom, according to a new scholarly work on community colleg

RE: [tips] Student Comment that Made Me Smile

Dave: Open the pod bay doors, HAL HAL: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. -Original Message- From: Bill Southerly [mailto:bsouthe...@frostburg.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:23 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Student Comment that

[tips] Book Group: Undergraduate Education in Psychology

Hi all, The Undergraduate Education in Psychology book group met last month to discuss chapter 1. After introductions, the group discussed our general observations and thoughts regarding the chapter. In order to achieve psychological literacy, students must be prepared to do the work, and psyc

[tips] "Scared of flying? Press the fear iButton"

An article from Tuesday's Reuters: "Scared of flying? Press the fear iButton" http://bit.ly/3GZpQf "Long-haul airline Virgin Atlantic Airways has launched an application, or app, for its Flying Without Fear course which boasts a success rate of over 98 percent." 98%? Really? "The airlin

RE: [tips] Personality tests

Just what I was looking for. Thanks! They're now here: http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/Personality Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator    Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404  sfra...@highline.

[tips] Personality tests

Hi all, At the most recent Best Practices conference, there was mention of a website that's a repository for validated personality tests. I'm almost certain it was in Laura King's presentation, but I'm not finding it in my notes, nor is her presentation one of the ones available on the Best Pr

[tips] FW: presenter on interview methodology

: Frantz, Sue Subject: presenter on interview methodology Hi Sue, I'm working with a cohort of faculty and staff here at Highline who are working on their Ph.D. research proposals. We're looking for someone who could talk through an example of survey research based on interviews. Their pr

[tips] Controversial topics

Speaking of Psychology Today, Dana Dunn (STP President-Elect) recently began authoring a Psychology Today blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/head-the-class/. In his most recent post, he discusses the difficulties of teaching difficult topics, referencing the most recent Best Practices Co

[tips] New STP Resource: Teaching of Psych Wiki

Announcing a new Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) resource! The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP) presents the Teaching of Psychology wiki: http://teachpsych.pbworks.com/ This resource was originally slated for an early 2010 release, but given the state of the A

RE: [tips] response to Ed Callen

or those who are more likely to protest in a less public manner, here again are the instructions for setting up filters in Outlook. If you use a different email system and would like assistance, you are welcome to email me off-list. Best, Sue From: Frantz, Sue [mailto:sfra...@highline.

RE: [tips] A slew of student questions

> (1) Are there gender differences in the numbers of rods and cones in the > retina? For interesting coverage of the evolution of color vision in primates, see this Scientific American article from April 2009: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=evolution-of-primate-color-vision

RE: [tips] Recent Research using Classical Conditioning?

I was at the Best Practices conference this weekend. Laura King, the final speaker of the conference, cited this study: Watanabe, H. & Mizunami, M. (2007). Pavlov's cockroach: Classical conditioning of salivation in an insect. PLoSOne. (http://bit.ly/4mEZPl) Sue -- Sue Frantz

RE: [tips] TIPS Subscribers List

I knew I was forgetting something. The list is here: http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/index.htm *** Hi all, It occurred to me that I haven't updated the TIPS subscribers list in awhile. If you have changes, send them to me off-list. If you'd like t

[tips] TIPS Subscribers List

Hi all, It occurred to me that I haven't updated the TIPS subscribers list in awhile. If you have changes, send them to me off-list. If you'd like to be added, send me (also off-list): Your name Your affiliation Your affiliation's address Your email address Your web address or

RE: [tips] using clickers in class

iClicker collected a series of essays from faculty in different areas as to how they use them: http://www.iclicker.com/dnn/UserCommunity/FacultyCaseStudies/tabid/168/D efault.aspx A few years ago I did a presentation on my campus on using clickers. I revised the PowerPoint so it makes sense i

[tips] Using filters in Outlook to delete unwanted messages

Hi all, There's no need to leave the list because of one person. If you have Outlook, here's how you can use filters to delete messages before you even see them. 1. In the top menu, select "Tools" then "Rules and Alerts." Select "New Rule." In the "Start from a blank rule" secti

[tips] Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference reminder: Oct 23rd

Reminder: *The last day for early registration is a postmark by tomorrow (Sept 30).* Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference Friday, October 23rd On the Highline Community College campus near Seattle in Des Moines, WA Registration postmarked on or before September 30th:

RE: [tips] Psychological research involving food

There's all of Linda Bartoshuk's work on taste. For example: http://www.pbs.org/safarchive/3_ask/archive/qna/3294_peppers.html -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator    Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404 

RE: [tips] Do you remember this cartoon?

I'm not advocating violating copyright law, but merely giving instruction on how to use some features of your computer for whatever use you'd like. On the top right of your keyboard is a "Print Screen" key. It's probably abbreviated, something like PRTSC. Hitting that key will copy everything

[tips] Garrison Keillor Explains What A Stroke Feels Like

This is a short 2-minute video. "It's numb, as if you'd been to the dentist and had 4 martinis. And you feel this odd disconnect." nprnews Garrison Keillor Explains What A Stroke Feels Like http://su.pr/1E3dUb Fri, Sep 18 12:00:

[tips] Book group invitation: Undergraduate Education in Psychology

Greetings! Are you interested in discussing the future of undergraduate education in psychology? In the summer of 2008, 80+ psychology faculty got together to figure out where undergraduate psych education is and where it's going. The results of their efforts are now available in this ju

[tips] Answers to Life?019s Worries, in 3-Minute "Speed Shrinking" Sessions - NYTimes.com

Just like speed dating, you get 3 minutes with a psychiatrist or psychologist before moving on to the next one. People looking for a quick fix? Or a good way to shop for a new therapist? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/nyregion/31therapy.html -- Sue Frantz

RE: [tips] Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference, Oct 23rd

Annette (and everyone else), My Technology for Educator's blog can be found here: http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/ If you don't want to keep checking that site to see if there's something new, add it to your RSS feed reader. Don't know what an RSS feed reader is let alone why it's helpful, see this

[tips] Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference, Oct 23rd

Announcing... Northwest Teaching of Psychology Conference Friday, October 23rd On the Highline Community College campus near Seattle in Des Moines, WA Registration postmarked on or before September 30th: $30 NWToP emphasizes sessions that provide content or techniques you can use i

[tips] Placebos getting stronger?

Through the Improbable Research blog comes this article from Wired, "Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why." http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo_effect?curr entPage=all An excerpt: Some products that have been on the market for deca

[tips] Psychology and global climate change

Hi all, Last year APA created a task force whose goal was to "describes the contributions of psychological research to an understanding of psychological dimensions of global climate change, provides research recommendations, and proposes policies for APA to assist psychologists' engagement with

[tips] APA Speaker Network-- A great tool for teachers

Something else for those who are interested... Sue From: Annoucement list for the Committee of Psych. Teachers at Community Colleges. [mailto:pta...@lists.apa.org] On Behalf Of Boenau, Martha Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:49 AM To: pta...@lists.apa.org Subject: [PTATCC] APA Speaker Net

[tips] Please disseminate a call for volunteer psychologists

For those who are interested... Sue From: Annoucement list for the Committee of Psych. Teachers at Community Colleges. [mailto:pta...@lists.apa.org] On Behalf Of Boenau, Martha Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:06 AM To: pta...@lists.apa.org Subject: [PTATCC] Please disseminate a call for volunteer

RE: [tips] itunes to ppt

What's the file extension? If it's M4P, which most iTunes files are, then PowerPoint can't read it. It needs to be converted to MP3 or WAV (or something similar). There are a bunch of audio converters online. Let me know if you need a recommendation. Alternatively (i.e., what I'd do), go t

[tips] lost-hiker déjà vu

In this NY Times article, researchers discover that "lost-hiker déjà vu" does exist. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/science/21circles.html. An excerpt: Dr. Souman, who studies multisensory perception, and his colleagues tracked the movements of volunteers sent into the wilds of a German for

[tips] Buenos Aires boasts waiters with impressive memories | Education | The Guardian

The good folks at Improbable Research report on a study on the memory of Buenos Aires waiters. '"Typical Buenos Aires senior waiters memorise all orders from clients and take the orders, without written support, of as many as 10 persons per table. They also deliver the order to each and every one

[tips] Rock Band: The Beatles (psych-related content)

For Beatles fans, fans of Rock Band, or instructors who have students who are either or both. This NY Times article (While My Guitar Gently Beeps) provides a nice overview of the music genre of video games, the making of the Beatles for Rock Band game (to be released 09/09/09), and, in the exce

[tips] Ludy Benjamin resigns from APA

* APA: Ludy Benjamin resigns over AHAP, torture August 17th, 2009 by Jeremy Burman Breaking news: Ludy Benjamin Jr. has resigned from the American Psychological Association. In addition to his well-known and long-standing sch

[tips] Sleep deprivation and Friends

What happens when you stay awake for 84 hours watching the sitcom, Friends? Nausea and hallucinations. http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/08/06/Man-watches-84-straight-hours-of- Friends/UPI-30151249602608/ If you need to see his pictures and a brief trip down Friends memory lane in his log

[tips] STP suite & APA programming

>From STP: We would like you all who are at the APA Convention in Toronto to know that the STP Hospitality Suite is at the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in room 175 on the 8th floor. The schedule of Suite events is posted at http://www.teachpsych.org/conferences/apa/apaprogram.php as is the full D

RE:[tips] Adjunct Faculty Resource Manual

The dead link is my fault. I requested a change to the manual, and when the change was made, they renamed the file. Here is the new direct link: http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptcc-adjunct-faculty-resource-manual2.pdf Sorry! Sue -- Sue Frantz Hig

[tips] Adjunct Faculty Resource Manual

A resource for your adjuncts. (Use this link to go directly to the manual: http://www.apa.org/ed/pcue/ptcc-adjunct-faculty-resource-manual.pdf) Sue The p...@cc Committee is pleased to share a new resource for teachers of psychology at community colleges. The Adj

[tips] Going to Toronto?

Hi all, Are you going to APA in Toronto? The Office of Teaching Resources in Psychology (OTRP, a product of Division 2: Society for the Teaching of Psychology) invites you to join us for either or both of the following sessions. Saturday, August 8 11am - 11:50am STP suite, Fairmont

[tips] iPhone happiness research

No, not whether you're happy with your iPhone, but using your iPhone to track your happiness... which may or may not be related to owning an iPhone. http://www.trackyourhappiness.org/ "Track Your Happiness.org is a new scientific research project that aims to use modern technology to help answ

[tips] Call for Human Rights Syllabi

Does anyone have a syllabus that fits the description below? If so, consider sending it to SHRP at s...@aaas.org. Then if you are so inclined, consider sending it to me (sfra...@highline.edu) for review and possible inclusion in the Project Syllabus database (http://teachpsych.org/otrp/syllabi/sy

[tips] Rock Band & the waterfall illusion

We recently added Rock Band 2 to our Wii collection. Dennis Goff is partially to blame, although he doesn't know it. In Rock Band, the notes move toward you as you plunk them out on a (toy) guitar or drums (drum pads). (See http://xbox360media.ign.com/xbox360/image/article/885/885168/rock-b

RE: [tips] Sue Frantz' blog

Thanks Beth, Mike, and Carol! I've been having a lot of fun with it, and I'm glad to hear that you're finding it useful! I've had less time lately to write, but I have a number of tech tools in the queue. Hopefully once we get on the other side of the APA convention I can give you a little

[tips] Chest/chest

Hi all, Need an example of perception? Courtesy of Awkward Family Photos. (NOT my story.) "When I was pregnant with my first child, my Grandma passed away. I didn't have anything to wear to the funeral, so I had to settle on a low-cut maternity blouse that made my breasts look enormous and

[tips] brain t-shirt

Hi all, A colleague (Thanks Michele!) informed me that today's Woot.com t-shirt is a brain map: http://shirt.woot.com/. They post a new t-shirt each day. At the end of each day they move the shirts to the "day of reckoning area": http://shirt.woot.com/Blog/?cat=reckoning So, if you read thi

[tips] Top 10 Reasons Why The BMI Is Bogus : NPR

Some years ago (5? 10? 15?) Stephen Black offered his thoughts on the uselessness of the BMI (my paraphrase). Here are the "Top 10 Reasons Why the BMI Is Bogus" according to "Weekend Edition math guy Keith Devlin." http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106268439&sc=fb&cc= fp

RE: [tips] Mandatory IPhones

Source? Are you sure it's not just the iPod? From: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net] Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 3:02 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Mandatory IPhones University of Florida will require students to have IPhones

RE: Fwd: RE: [tips] Change or Die: Scholarly E-Mail Lists, Once Vibrant, Fight for Relevance

In terms of permanent record storage (or at least as permanent as we can get), nothing will beat the printed, as in hard-copy, word. (Although an argument can be made for the oral tradition.) Having said that, while I like the idea of a TIPS archive, I've rarely made use of it. For me, the val

[tips] Ning.com

I'm also a proponent of Ning.com. The advantage of an email list is that many of us still live in email. TIPS comes to us. With a social networking site, like Ning, one needs to go to that site. Although if you use an RSS feed reader, you can have Ning send you updates when something new ap

RE: [tips] anosmia

I had a student who also lost her sense of smell following a head injury. In addition to choosing what to eat based on temperature and texture, she said that she spent more time doing laundry, a concern expressed by someone else in the article. (She couldn't apply the sniff test to determine if s

[tips] TweetPsych

For the those who use Twitter: http://tweetpsych.com/ "TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis algorithms (RID and LIWC) to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of their tweets. The service analyzes your last 1000 tweets and works best on users who have posted more th

[tips] Facial recognition & gaming

Hi all, Microsoft has developed a prototype for a new XBOX game interface: "During the demonstration, British developer Peter Molyneux showed how Natal could not only recognise faces, it could recognise facial expressions to determine what mood a player was in and react accordingly." EL

[tips] p...@cc Committee Elections: A call for nominations

A call for nominations and a personal statement from current p...@cc committee member, Nancy Schaab. *** The APA Committee of Psychology Teachers at Community Colleges has put out the following call for nominations: Consider serving on the APA Committee of Psychology Teac

RE: [tips] $ex Education the Old Fashioned Way: Through Cell Phone

I did a stint with ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/, text any question to 242-242 or leave a message at 1-800-2-ChaCha), and I got a lot of sex-related and relationship-related questions. In other words, kids (and adults) have already discovered a hotline. Visit the ChaCha website to see questio

RE: [tips] Get together in KC

I'll be there and will try extra hard to not be ill the night of the dinner. Sue From: drna...@aol.com [mailto:drna...@aol.com] Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 7:57 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Get together in KC Hi all, Putting out a call

RE: [tips] Not Sure What's At Work Here

I talk about scripts as a kind of schema. I'll always remember the first time I visited a warehouse-type grocery store where you had to bag your own groceries. The cashier and I stood there looking at each other, each wondering when the other was going to start bagging. I also remember when o

[tips] Mental set example

In this 911 call the caller tries to solve an old problem (unlocking the car door) by using what has worked in the past. But it's not working. Fortunately the 911 operator comes to the rescue. http://failblog.org/2009/04/22/locked-in-fail/

[tips] Obit: Freud's grandson

"Sir Clement Freud , who has died suddenly aged 84, was one of those rare characters who managed to excel in several spheres: caterer, theatre club owner, journalist, broadcaster and politician. These diverse activities were underpinned by one of th

[tips] Technology for Educators: New blog

Colleagues, who may or may not be interested, I've started a blog called "Technology for Educators" -- http://sfrantz.wordpress.com/. I'll be writing about technology as it applies to, well, education. Mostly I'm looking at different tools that may benefit educators. In my first few blogs I

RE: [tips] MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy

tay...@sandiego.edu Original message >Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 10:33:38 -0700 >From: "Frantz, Sue" >Subject: [tips] MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > > "Passed by Unanimous of th

[tips] MIT Faculty Open-Access Policy

"Passed by Unanimous of the Faculty, March 18, 2009 "The Faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is committed to disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible. In keeping with that commitment, the Faculty adopts the following policy: Each Faculty memb

RE: [tips] Rick Steves: Travel guru reports on a little psychology

I wonder if watching this video that shows the sheer volume of air traffic over North America at any given moment has any impact on base rate estimates: http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/flightpatterns/FPWeb_Final_3.mov The middle segment provides an interesting way to visually depict data. Sue

[tips] Rick Steves: Travel guru reports on a little psychology

Rick Steves, best known for his PBS travel shows wrote this in a recent blog. ** Bungled Risk Assessment and Tragic Road Trips Having a daughter studying at Georgetown means I have a steady strea

RE: [tips] external reviewers

Division 2 (Society for Teaching of Psychology) does this: http://teachpsych.org/otrp/deptconsult.php Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator    Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404  sfra...@highlin

[tips] Project Syllabus: Call for Syllabi

Project Syllabus: Call for Syllabi With your courses, do you incorporate wikis, blogs, social networking, social bookmarking, or other social media? Do you integrate diversity issues? Does your course have a service learning component? Are you teaching online or hybrid courses? Consider s

RE: [tips] [tips]Regression to the mean (was Bogus treatments)

Oops! Mea culpa on regression to the mean. =( Sue -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology, Coordinator    Des Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404    sfra...@highline.edu http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/ -- APA Division 2: Soc

RE: [tips] Bogus treatments

Of course you'll always find someone who will believe that something works, even in the face of solid double-blind testing. (See my favorite example of believe perseverance: http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/ideomotor.html.) For regression to the mean, how about vitamin C t

RE: [tips] Bogus treatments

Michael, How about therapeutic touch? http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/tt.html I particularly like this one because a 9 year old was 2nd author on the JAMA article (April 1, 1998): http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/279/13/1005 Sue -- Sue Frantz

[tips] Lie to Me

For those who get TV's Fox channel... I've been watching the ads for the new show "Lie to Me" beginning January 21st and wondering if it was based on Paul Ekman's work. It is. http://www.paulekman.com/ -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Ps

RE: [tips] longevity thoughts

I joined TIPS in the summer of 1994. I remember I was teaching part-time for 3 different colleges in eastern Kansas. That fall I got my first full-time job in southern New Mexico where I was the psych department. I can't overstate the value TIPS had for me then -- you were my virtual departmen

[tips] Exams as revenue generators

As most of us watch our budgets being cut... >From the News of the Weird >(http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw081214.html): "When the Poway Unified School District near San Diego cut teachers' printing budgets this year, some handout-intensive instructors had to dip into their own pocket

RE: [tips] Vending Machine for Crows

You can see Josh Klein talk about his vending machine for crows -- and see Betty the Crow make a tool to retrieve food -- and watch a crow use cars as a nutcracker: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/joshua_klein_on_the_intelligence_of_crows.html -- Sue Frantz Highline Communit

RE: [tips] Best Practices

For any department doing a review, a must read is this article, which might be the one Marc was thinking of: Dunn, D.S., McCarthy, M., Baker, S., Halonen, J.S., & Hill, G.W. (2007). Quality benchmarks in undergraduate psychology programs. American Psychologist, 62, 650-670. The Society for th

[tips] Sunny von Bulow obituary

Sunny von Bülow has died. Can you believe it's been 28 years since she was found unconscious? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3660291/Sunny-von-Blow.html -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College PsychologyDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL

[tips] Looking for article

Hi all, Anyone have a copy of or access to this article: McNeil, B. J., Pauker, S. G., Sox, H. C., & Tversky, A. (1982). On the elicitation of preferences for alternative therapies. New England Journal of Medicine, 306, 1259-1262. Any help is much appreciated! Sue -- Sue Frantz

RE: [tips] State stats: Correlations

". But wasn't McCain Obama's opponent? I'd like to know how this was constructed. Bill Scott >>> "Frantz, Sue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 12/04/08 9:41 PM >>> http://statestats.appspot.com/ Put in a term that people might search for using Google, a

[tips] State stats: Correlations

http://statestats.appspot.com/ Put in a term that people might search for using Google, and this tool will give you a ranking of US states by how popular that search term is in that state. And then it will correlate that search ranking with 21 different variables, such as longevity, obesity,

RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book

al Message----- From: Frantz, Sue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/3/2008 8:28 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book Stephen, I thought we decided years ago that you and I are closet reference librarians. Did you notice that 23 of

RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book

2008 9:08 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book On 3 Dec 2008 at 14:25, Frantz, Sue wrote: > I'm going with 2512 authors. > > Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z > resonance. Physics

RE: [tips] One for the Guinness book

I'm going with 2512 authors. Aleph et al. 2006. Precision electroweak measurements on the Z resonance. Physics Reports, 427[5-6]: 257-454. There are 14 pages of authors... listed in Appendix A. With 2,512 authors, chances are good that you know one! You can read the paper here: http://tinyurl.

[tips] Netflix Prize

Hi all, Netflix is offering a million dollars to the person or persons who can improve their prediction system by 10% so they can better recommend movies that customers will like. This is really a psychology problem, not a computer problem. Anyone want to take crack at it? I nominate Stephe

RE: [tips] Candy on the table study?

Are you thinking of the Stanford Marshmallow Study? http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/244/4907/933 -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College PsychologyDes Moines, WA 206.878.3710 x3404[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://flightline.highline.edu/sfran

[tips] STP Facebook group

Hi all, My apologies for the forward from PsycTeach, but... for your information. Sue -Original Message- From: Society for Teaching of Psychology Discussion List STP now has a Facebook group! If you would like to join, while you are in Facebook, simply do a Search for the group "Soc

[tips] Charter for Compassion

Hi all, In March, Karen Armstrong made her TED Prize wish: http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/karen_armstrong.html Her wish was for a Charter for Compassion where all the world's religions come together for peace. It's now time to start writing (http://charterforcompassion.com/). "Peopl

RE: [tips] academic entitlement

How about extra credit for reading newspaper stories where people are being given reward points for eating vegetables? http://www.startribune.com/world/34279464.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiacyK UU or http://tinyurl.com/63peel -- Sue Frantz Highline Community Colleg

RE: [tips] Sarah Palin on genetics research

All of them? =) Sue -Original Message- From: beth benoit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 8:12 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Sarah Palin on genetics research Guess it's a good thing I'M not running for Vice President.

RE: [tips] How to search the tips forum?

You can access the TIPS archives here: http://www.mail-archive.com/tips@acsun.frostburg.edu/ I have a link to it from the TIPS page here: http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/index.htm -- Sue Frantz Highline Community College Psychology    Des Moines, WA 206.

RE: [tips] Google Reader

I don't use Google Reader per se for my courses, but I do include a couple feeds (PsycPORT news and We're Only Human) on my website: http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/#links and I beam my Del.icio.us bookmarks to my Intro Psych page: http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/syllabi/psych100.

[tips] "elevator psychology"

This Candid Camera video just surfaced on Digg. http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/165244/Elevator-Psychology.html?rh=173711 In this segment, the subject steps into an elevator, and 3 people step in behind him, all facing the back wall. Stick around to the end of the clip for the variation.

[tips] Old news is new again

Why It's Hard to Change People's Minds "A new study shows that after being exposed to information contradicting their ideas, most people still cling to their prejudices." http://www.alternet.org/story/101973/why_it%27s_hard_to_change_people%27s_minds/ How many years have we been covering this i

RE: [tips] Second Life?

Some of the Psych faculty at James Madison have used Second Life (SL) for both online and face-to-face courses. At the most recent Best Practices conference, Suzie Baker and Monica Reis-Bergan presented on it. Suzie also did a presentation on SL at APA. I'm certain either of them would be happy

RE: [tips] Fox news

Oops. Meant to send this to someone else - who is not even on TIPS! From: FRANTZ, SUE [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:22 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Fox news Gotta love Fox News. "Split." Right

[tips] Fox news

Gotta love Fox News. "Split." Right. http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Nearly_unanimous_vote_for_Obama --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

[tips] "What is mind?" lecture

Hi all, I just received word of this upcoming presentation from a colleague in biology: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/hl/ The 2008 Holiday Lectures on Science What is mind? Can molecular biology help us understand mental function ? Eric R. Kandel, M.D.

[tips] Annenberg Videos Free

Hi all, I missed when this happened, but the following Annenberg videos are now available for free (with free registration) in streaming video: The Brain: Teaching Modules (1997) The Mind: Teaching Modules (1999) Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition (1990, 2001) The World of Abnormal Psycholo

RE: [tips] Gay/Lesbian Students in a large lecture human sexuality class

Interesting question Nancy... Since I'm not in your class, I can't really comment on what you are or are not doing - or even that it's you -- that's prompted that response. If it were me, I'd leave 10 minutes at the end of class one day and tell students that I'd like to get some feedback

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