On Jun 22, 2007, at 1:39 PM, Michael Sylvester wrote:
It is being reported that a news agency will offer Paris Hilton one
million dollars for an interview after getting out of jail(gaol).
Doesn't the magnitude of reinforcement effect behavior?
In my rat running days I could swear that there wa
On Jun 22, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Michael Sylvester wrote:
did C P Snow statre that Jews were intellectually superior?
No.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: +334 844-6482
Fax:
On Jun 19, 2007, at 6:18 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's a little more complicated because in Mexico you have to be
very careful how you use the term United States. Because, of
course, these are the Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Sigh!
Si! I think the point you make has become much more c
On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
One is not allowed to accept foreign titles as a Canadian citizen,
which is why good ol' Conrad Black, Lord of Crossharbour, had to
give up his Canadian citizenship before becoming a member of the
British House of Lords. Apparently h
On Jun 18, 2007, at 7:45 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
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I am permanently stressed about things that psychologists claim.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: +334 844-6482
Fax: +334 844-4447
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Jim Clark wrote:
It has been a few years since reading Rorty, but my recollection
(perhaps wrong) was that his statement about knowledge being
conversation applied to all knowledge, which would deny access to
objective truth even by scientific approaches. Hence my ch
On Jun 10, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Jim Clark wrote:
Hi
As one of the promoters of antiscientific views, I think Rorty,
among many others, certainly had negative influence, both direct
and indirect, on efforts to promote the human or social sciences,
including psychology. Here's an excerpt from
On Jun 3, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did I miss something? What is the context for your comment? Who is
the Dean Chris is responding to and what had he said?
Riki Koenigsberg
Somehow a discussion we were a having on the Cheiron (history of
so
On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:57 AM, Beth Benoit wrote:
Peter,
I'd say, "No worries" about your typo. The sense of your post made
it obvious what you intended to write.
Beth Benoit
Plymouth State University
Granite State College
New Hampshire
Thank you, Beth.
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(
Oooops! Awful typo! Please see below:
On Jun 3, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Harzem Peter wrote:
On Jun 3, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Dear Dean,
I am afraid that you have fundamentally misrepresented (and
perhaps misapprehend) my objection. It is easy to dismiss your
critics
On Jun 3, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Dear Dean,
I am afraid that you have fundamentally misrepresented (and
perhaps misapprehend) my objection. It is easy to dismiss your
critics as incomprehending, fuzzy-thinking humanists. I am not
here, however, to defend qualitativ
On Jun 3, 2007, at 7:42 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Beat ya! One of our local San Diego Unified School District high
schools had 35 a few years ago! They all had a perfect GPA and
couldn't whittle it down in terms of other activities and so gave
it to them all!
Did they check spelling and
In reply to
Harzem Peter who wrote:
This is a remarkable yet small example of a phenomenon about which
I have wondered from time to time but for which I have no
answer. Is there another, contemporary, 'western' culture that
is so titillated, and so persistently interested as
On May 17, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Since Freud comes up on this list frequently, and the discovery of
the Freud-Minna Bernays affair was discussed earlier, I thought
that this interview with the discoverer of the hotel slip where
Freud listed them as "man and wife" wo
On Apr 26, 2007, at 7:45 AM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
Also interesting that Swarthmore in PA made the list. It is a top
rated liberal arts college (so no question about the quality) but
it costs $43500 a year (tuition plus room/board) to attend. I
wonder how t
On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Paul Okami wrote:
I have to confess that I don't own a television, so I'm prevailing
upon those who do, and who watched Virginia Tech coverage: My
impression from the few flashes of TV screens I had in restaurants
and the gym was that psychologists were offeri
On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Gary Klatsky wrote:
In all fairness I should also point out that the vast majority of the
starting line is from Canada. The joke I tell is that the northern
wall of
our new campus center, which includes the ice rink, is a large widow
overlooking Lake Ontario allo
On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Beth Benoit wrote:
When are we going to get serious about rejecting the "I was only
kidding," "Can't you take a joke?" and "Sorry if you were offended"
apologies?
I hope never. Apologizing is an essential part of civilized life.
We all make mistakes,
And, of course, HAPPY EASTER to all.(I am shamed to admit I
forgot to say that in my earlier message.)
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: +334 844-6482
Fax: +334 844
Here is a conclusion from a moral principle that, I am persuaded to
believe, did not come from God:
"If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough
for me!"
This is a quotation from "Ma" Ferguson, the first female governor of
Texas, in 1925. She was arguing against legi
On Apr 7, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Linda Woolf wrote
...Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal.
Praying Mantis?
Peter, in a lighter mood.
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
On Apr 6, 2007, at 4:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Jim Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
...we teach students to think critically, to use science and
reason to
arrive at conclusions about the world...
...the solution arrived at by Thomas Aquinas, which had the dual
result of
(1) open
On Apr 4, 2007, at 8:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since there is a pronounced primacy and recency effect for recalled
items,does that mean that the items I got wrong on a test were
situated
in the middle of the chapters?
I imagine the answer is "it would suggest so, but only if you
mem
On Mar 21, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Pollak, Edward wrote:
Just out of curiosity, Louis, how many students do you have each
semester in your 4 sections of US History? I have 150 students in
my 1 section of intro psych and another 120 in my two sections of
animal behavior. And, of course, I've got
On Mar 18, 2007, at 9:03 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..The issue is not whether their methods are
equally questionable but what their lasting influence has been for
scientific psychology. I assert that Piaget continues to be
influential;
Freud, not so much. ...
The last senten
On Mar 17, 2007, at 11:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That someone was me, of course. I don't think it's so hard to deny
Freud's influence, if by "influence" we mean a lasting effect on the
direction of evidence-based psychology. He caused lots of trouble,
certainly, and had a powerful effect
On Mar 14, 2007, at 1:22 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am going to teach cognitive psych to American students in
Guadalajara again this summer and thought I would incorporate some
cross-cultural work, especially if it involves hispanic comparisons
but am very dismay
Dear friends and colleagues,
Why don't we give Kubler-Ross a much deserved respite?
Peter
Peter Harzem, B.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Wales)
Hudson Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36849-5214
USA
Phone: +334 844-6482
Fax: +334 844-4447
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT
On Mar 8, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would someone develop a Canadian accent eh?
Do you mean, would they lose their American accent huh?
:-)
Four friends go to a pub in London; two from USA (one from Bronx, NY
one from Opp, Alabama,) and two
On Mar 8, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
.
Each disease comes with its own one-paragraph description and step-
by-step instructions on how to become "filthy rich" by marketing
your very own "discovery."
.
Sadly, history of medicine shows that discoverers of medicine did
On Mar 8, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Elizabeth Gassin wrote:
Someone may have already answered this (we're on break, so I am
going through days of posts right now), but in other languages, the
word for "scholar" and "scientist" are the same (i.e., Russian...
and German, too, if I am not mistaken).
This very much sounds like one particular type of Aphasia named
ALEXIA which involves loss of only the ability to comprehend written
words, not the ability to write them. (Emphasis is on 'only'; i.e.
Alexia has been observed with no other language disability.) There
is substantial litera
On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:11 PM, William Scott wrote:
Our local holdings of American Psychologist only go to page 62 of
this year so I have some questions that are perhaps answered in the
article. Why was Watson fired from Johns Hopkins, or is that a
myth? Why did his widow and estate withhold
On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Rick Froman wrote:
Just to clarify, is the article saying they didn't have an affair or
they didn't have sexual relations in the service of science? I
would say
it was obvious that it was not for the sake of science since the
public
nature of science means, if y
On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Lavin, Michael wrote:
TIPS folks: Are compassion fatigue psychophysical numbness terms
that psychologists would call habituation?
Interesting point I had not considered. Although I think 'numbness'
may be regarded as a type of habituation, most often it is dis
On Mar 4, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Harzem Peter wrote:
On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:26 PM, jim guinee wrote:
"Are grief counsellors going to change their tune? I wouldn't bet
on it."
Is anyone on this list going to make a paradigm shift in their
profess
On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:26 PM, jim guinee wrote:
"Are grief counsellors going to change their tune? I wouldn't bet
on it."
Is anyone on this list going to make a paradigm shift in their
professional endeavors based on one study?
Why not? Physics did on the basis of one study (Einstein's t
On Feb 28, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote:
Similarly, perhaps one day psychologists who learn from animal
models will not rely so heavily on just rats in their studies.
Also, perhaps one day medicine will move away from unrepresentative
samples of volunteers in clinics and hos
I know many will not like this but...
I hope one day regulations and restrictions will become excessive,
using undergraduates as subjects will become rare, and psychology
will cease being the psychology of a narrow range of young adults,
and become just psychology.
By the way, I do not all b
I am getting around the 3-a-day rule, and responding to three
different comments in one :-)
David Epstein wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Harzem Peter went:
Papers in Psychology journals, shackled by the demand to follow the
APA style, are so very, very boring. From none of them would one
get
On Feb 26, 2007, at 2:11 PM, DeVolder Carol L wrote:
I came late to this thread, but I find it very interesting--
especially Peter Harzem's response to Michael Smith's query below--
it made me laugh because only a scientist could post that
response : ).
I have just a couple of observations to th
On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Paul Brandon wrote:
...The full argument I was referring to would be:
Only humans are conscious
Pigeons are not human
Therefore pigeons are not conscious.
This tells us nothing that we didn't already know about
consciousness (and little about pigeons ;-).
We need
On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Michael Smith wrote:
How would you know that your cat only looks for you when you are at
home?
Thank you, very good question. I know because for quite some time
now I have been very interested in the behavior of our two cats.
For a time I set up a couple o
On Feb 26, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Michael Scoles wrote:
Is consciousness about being aware, or aware of me, or aware of
what's me and what's not me? If it is the latter, is it anything
more than a figure-ground discrimination problem?
As I wrote before this question can only be answered if f
On Feb 26, 2007, at 10:44 AM, Paul Brandon wrote:
Pigeons have been taught to report internal states, such as whether
they are being affected by a psychoactive drug. Can we say that
they are 'conscious' of being in that state?
Why, of course, Paul. (My cat is conscious of my being at ho
On Feb 25, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Pollak, Edward wrote:
It's quite rare that I disagree with Stephen but this is one of
those times.
Stephen wrote
"..We generally accept two kinds as uncontroversial: either
we're conscious or we're not. And we know someone is conscious
when they're
On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Michael Scoles wrote:
Isn't reading a quaint, antiquated method for obtaining
knowledge. Today, we have the Discovery Channel, the Science
Channel, NGEO, etc.
Not to forget 'adult' channels, Hip Hop shows, shows with abundance
of murder, torture, lying, cheat
On Feb 22, 2007, at 1:05 PM, David Epstein wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, Robin Abrahams went:
APA style goes against what most students have been taught is good
writing--developing a distinctive style, eschewing the passive
voice, etc.--
Actually, doesn't APA style encourage use of the active
On Jan 9, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Christopher Green wrote:
"“If you’re a big guy, you expect to be on the top all the time and
you’re disappointed when things don’t go well. But when you’re down
at the bottom like us, you hang on, you don’t expect much, and once
in a while you win, and it’s that
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