Physio Text Recommendation

Ditto on the pro-Kalat recommendation. My students like it a lot. It's certainly lower level than Carlson but I don't believe that's a bad thing, especially when the students come to the with a high anxiety level. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychol

Thanks (physio text)

Nancy wrote > I am going to request and preview Kalat, Carlson and Pinel for this class. > > I strongly recommend against Pinel. The illustrations are very impressive but I didn't like the book. Pinel has this annoying habit of pushing his pet theories rather than the more generally accepted th

Help for a High School Teacher.

> "James K. Denson" wrote > As a AP Psychology High School teacher I get many inquiries about which = > school is the best for certain fields. Mostly, I get inquiries about = > forensic, Abnormal & Developmental. I am asking if anyone knows of a place > I can get information on, about which coll

Help for a High School Teacher

Since I seem to have started much of this, let me make a few more comments: 1)Too many of our freshmen come in with the notion "I want to be a child psychologist" or "I want to be a forensic psychologist and do profiling for the FBI." They seem to come out of high school with these very specific n

student exchange

If you consider doing this you must get the chairpersons OK. There are ethical issues about another prof getting paid for teaching your student. Granted that it usually doesn't matter but in some courses that pay by the head, I've seen this abused and I've seen people fired for committing a fraud.

A new excuse for missing an exam

I just received the following. I thought I'd geard them all but this is a new one. Dear Professor, My name is X X and I am in your Psychology class that meets on mondays at 4:15 til 7. I have a dilemma. My dad and I drag race, and we got the opportunity to go to Florida this weekend f

A new excuse

Annette wrote: You mean to tell me that a bluegrass fiddler can't relate to the importance of a race??? Sure I can. But I'd never schedule a bluegrass gig or festival that might interfere with a class. As for Harry's remarks: I'm not one of those "teach 'em responsibility by givi

Exam fairness

I'm with Beth. Let anyone take it who wants to. Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology West Chester University http://mywebpages.comcast.net/epollak/home.htm Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, bluegrass fiddler and

Fred Rogers

Title: Message Bill Scott wrote I think there's something genetic here: Fred Rogers: "I like you for just being you". Will Rogers: "I never met a [person] I didn't like" Carl Rogers: "unconditional positive regard" Too bad they're now all gone.   No, there's still one left, Bill.  It's a l

anger

The other part of the answer is that excessive anxiety, depression, etc., rarely result directly criminal activity. But with excessive anger I'd bet that the criminalsystem would be more likely to deal with the person than would the mental health system. Ed Edward

Interactive Neuroanatomy CD-ROM?

For years I've been looking for an interactive CD-ROM for a basic biopsych class. I'm looking something where you could look at e.g., the limbic system and then rotate the brain to see it in 3 dimensions. The ones I've seen are either high school level (e.g.,ADAM) or at the level of a med school

More temp positions at West Chester U. of PA

In addition to the animal behavior lab mentioned in my last post, we also need someone to teach 2 sections of undergrad BioPsych in the fall semester. Unfortunately, one of those conflicts with the animal behavior lab so we'll need two people to teach the three courses. All three are on Tuesdays &

letters of recommendation

If you have a student for you can not honestly say anything positive, I would suggest saying to the student, "I can write a letter for you if you want me to but I must be honest with you. It won't be a very good letter so you might want to ask someone else." Ed Edwar

Letters of Reference

"Christopher D. Green" "I have always said I would say this when the time came, but in 10 years of teaching it has never really happened that I was asked to write a letter for a student who I would outright refuse. Much more frequent has been the student for whom I have almost nothing to write --

Temporary Position at West Chester University

West Chester University of PA needs someone to teach an Animal Behavior (not animal learning) lab in the Fall '03 semester. The course meets Tuesdays & Thursdays from 11-1. FWIW, West Chester pays temps quite well compared to most places. Please share this note with anyone in the southeastern PA r

Sleep Cycle Question

I've had students ask this question for years but I've not found a definitive answer. I was reminded about it again last night when cold caused me to wake up every 90 minutes. Here's the question: We know that there's a 90 minute cycle in sleep stages. But if you wake someone up for e.g., 30 minu

Ethics(?) question

My take on this is a bit different. The company is simply making the professor aware of a situation that many of us consider only with incredulity. I see no obligation on the professor's part to use the company's flyers, transparencies, etc. I see only a promise by the professor to emphasize to th

Random Thought: A Cause To Pause

Louis wrote "Hey, Dr. Schmier. You don't know me, but I know you and I'd like us to get to know each other. I started reading you for a ed-psych class assignment about a year ago and haven't stopped yet. Mind if I vent on you and let off steam? I've got to let it out. Talking with my friends

Random Thought: A Cause To Pause

I guess I take offense because a) the content of the letter was so ambiguous that I really don't understand the specifics of her complaints... Just a lot of whining about her professors "not knowing me as a person". Whatever that means. b) For every letter like that from a Marjorie, I c

Sigmund Freud Action Figure

This reminds of the set of (baseball-like) trading cards produced a number of years ago by (I think) some folks at the University of Chicago. It was a set of cards depicting the Great Economists. My cousin (who has his own card in the deck) had given a set to his aunt (my mother) who had, in tu

I Hate Dry Erase Markers

Stuart Vyse wrote "Call me old fashioned... But when it comes to drawing the normal curve, I love the feel of chalk on a hard blackboard. .. I sometimes think I went to school for the privilege of walking around with chalk dust on my pants. Chalk is symbolic of our profession

power point is evil?

I'm with Louis on this one. As a former long-term chairperson I've had to observe many faculty and I find PowerPoint to be a bore. It too often roots the prof to the lectern and has students scribbling madly to take down the notes while they're not bothering to listen. Don't get me wrong: I

Power Point is Evil

I guess that, too, have to agree with Gary & Steven. My main objection to powerpoint is when it's primarily an outline. But if it's primarily used for jpeg files, mpegs, etc. I have no problem with it. But that takes s much work and prep. for each lecture that I, for one, could not/would

Request for Louis Schmier

Hi, Louis. I'm currently teaching a section of PSY100 for our "learning Communities" project. Actually, I'm a late substitution in this program as the original instructor received release time to do some administrative stuff. But the instructors in the community were tossing around ideas and th

Triune Brain

Title: Triune Brain David Epstein wrote "…..you'll almost never hear the term "triune brain" used by a practicing neuroscientist.  In fact, I just did a 1966-2003 Medline search for any occurrence of the words "triune" and "brain" in abstracts of published papers, and there were only 10 hit

Gripe

Title: Gripe I'm with Annette. I'm a softie. I get lots of students who say "So & So is my adviser and I can't get a hold of them via e-mail or phone or during their brief office hours." When I know that the faculty in question is, indeed, hard to reach, I'll say, OK. But I also pull up the s

Foreign Language Syndrome

Title: Foreign Language Syndrome Just FYI…. The woman who is afflicted with this disorder (following a stroke) was interviewed on the Today show yesterday and she not only had a mild British accent but timbre of her voice had changed rather radically.  That's not surprising. What was surprisi

Developmental Psychology Position Available

TIPS members: Please circulate as widely as possible. Ed -Original Message- From: Sara Pollak Levine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/10/2003 11:20 AM To: Pollak, Edward Subject: developmental position Assistant ProfessorâPsychology Developmental Psychology â The Behavioral

Learning Communities

Title: Learning Communities For those of you interested in Learning Communities see http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392123 Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. West Chester University of Pennsylvania ~ The MillCree

History of Psychology project

Edward I. Pollak (i.e., me) Benjamin Sachs (thesis adviser) Frank Beach Karl Lashley John Watson James Angell William James Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Home: 610-363-193

Social Psychologist: Tenure Track Position

Title: Social Psychologist: Tenure Track Position Please pass this on to any potential applicants. - West Chester University anticipates hiring a tenure-track faculty member in Social Psychology at the Assistant Professor level (pending budgetar

Two Student Questions

Title: Two Student Questions I had 2 questions from students the other day that I could not answer hopefully you folks can help. 1) This is an old one to which I've never found a satisfactory  answer: Is there an adaptive significance to the contralateral organization of the brain. If so, w

extra credit question

have written a 2nd paper. But in this case, if there was only one extra credit opportunity of this type, they didn't have the option to satisfy it with attendance at a second session. Ed (the Softie) Pollak ~~~~ Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psych

Clive Waring Video as MPG File

If anyone's interested, I have the old Clive Waring video in an MPG file. Contact me off-list. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology West Chester University of Pennsylvania http://mywebpages.comcast.net/epollak/home.htm

Withdrawal from antidepressants

Title: Message Carol wrote "Dependency vs. addiction is another matter. I tend not to use the word =addiction because of the implications and associations that go with it. =But, dependency may be physiological or psychological, or both. Physical =dependency occurs when the body experiences

Withdrawal from antidepressants

Title: Withdrawal from antidepressants To Chris & Peter: The problem is that the term "psychology" (i.e., knowledge of the mind or soul) is an inherently dualistic concept (sensu substance dualism). You might want to split hairs about these various definitions when discussing concepts such

seduced by science

James Guinee wrote "Just as science cannot teach much about morality, religion cannot teach > much about science. It doesn't mean they can't have some partnership, but > > not much of one." > This is a very bizarre (maybe good, maybe bad) time to be having this discussion. What we all knew,

Hoisting petards Oedipus (etc)

Harry Avis wrote: > Hey folks, don't you all have anything better to do?. Maybe your colleges > should consider raising your teaching load to mine (5 classes plus one > overload) > Just kidding, of course > Hold on there, Harry. I thought my university DID pay me to spend my days and nights

Uncover Reveal or Ingenta

I use it and yes, it is now called Ingenta. Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Graduate Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of Psychology, West Chester Univ. of Pennsylvania ~~~ Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist,

Graduate Dean--Position Announcement

Position Announcement Dean of Graduate Studies and Extended Education West Chester University of Pennsylvania invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean, Graduate Studies and Extended Education Qualifications: Doctorate in a suitable discipline required, at least 8 years' e

Degree Fraud

I just received this ad on my AOL account. I think represents a new level in "degree fraud." Ed > University Degree Program > > Graduate without attending classes or taking a leave of absence from your > current job. Prepare for the professional advancement you deserve.

Seeking information about Masters Programs

And here's a link to our MA programs in clinical, I/O & gen. exptl. http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/sch_cas.psy/ Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Graduate Coordinator, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Department of Psychology, West Chester Univ. of Pennsylvania ~~

Degree Fraud

Mike Quanty wrote > This may be even grosser than you think. A colleague at my college had > received the same ad with the number to call being different. > 1.602.230.4252 > Both numbers have recorded messages with the same voice. Do you suppose > these are franchises? > Another thought that o

adjuncting - one more question

Susan Freedman wrote Just wondered if there was anyone out there who made the transition from post ph.D. adjuncting to a tenure track position. I'm not wanting to include those who did adjuncting while still ia graduate student. I was an adjunct for 2 years and was then hired by the same sch

Longitudinal studies on aging

> Ferreira Alves wrote > If any of you know how has been the participation of psychologists in > multidiscplinar research on longitudinal studies on aging, please send to > me > information about the goals, instruments, normal or pathological focus, > and > so on. > I thought we were ALL partici

Advice on biopsych

I agree with most of what has been said but I disagree with one point and want to make another. Disagreement: I don't believe that biology students have that much of an advantage for two reasons: 1)we require or strongly suggest that our students have basic bio before taking physiological psayc

seduced by science AND grade inflation

Although my teaching methods and views on grading are diametrically opposed to Louis' I respect greatly what he tries to do in his classes. I also know that I am constitutionally incapable of doing what he does in the classroom. The thought that the quality of a class might be largely out my cont

Posting Grades

Nancy Mellucci wrote > When students ask me to post grades, or to tell them how they are doing, I > > ask them to look at their quizzes, exam grades and assignments. They can > answer this question without my input. > I couldn't disagree more. On our periodic evaluations of their instructors,

approach-avoidance conflict

> At 11:28 AM -0500 12/5/01, Michael Sylvester wrote: > >Please help! Some of my students want to take the final exam on the last > >day of class,but the memo from the Dean states to follow the final > >exam schedule.The gradient seems to be fluctuating. > >I am going to flip a coin in class.Heads

Grading those experimental papers

I, too, disagree with automatically awarding extra points for more complex designs. I am in the processes of reading lab reports from an animal behavior lab. It was a very simple lab on the development of a motor skill in pup development. The only statistics required were the computing of corre

Near Death Experiences

Attached is blurb on a new Dutch study of NDEs. The only thing that strikes me as new or interesting is the claim that they observed NDEs in the absence of brain activity and seem to claim that as evidence for a mind/soul-body dualism and possible life after death. As an orthodox and unrepentant

FW: Overcome ADHD, alcoholism, and other Addictions

I just received this unsolicited e-mail. Has anyone else see it? It's comforting to know that's they've found THE genes for alcoholism & cocaine addiction and that now I can throw away my Zyban, nicotine patches, etc. Ed > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECT

How will statistics help me?

Rick Froman asked about a student question "How will understanding statistics really help me to contribute to my satisfaction with and success in life? as stated on page 11 in sats [sic] and the 'real world'." I have some ideas, of course, but I thought it would be really impressive to get the t

Sports (was Proof of God's existence?)

Can someone please explain to me why/how presumably intelligent people become so obsessed with the activities of a professional sports team with whom their only connection is that the team plays 1/2 of its games in a city close to where you live or have lived. I just don't get it. And don't tell m

Sports (was Proof of God's Existence)

Paul wrote I've got to admit that I agree on that last point (despite my earlier ribbing...). As I understand it, we're 9 point underdogs at the moment. On the other hand, the Packers are a better team than they've looked recently, and this IS the NFL's 1-loss-and-you're-out playoff system. If it

Re: Random Thought: Why Aren't You Retired?

> Harry Avis wrote > The time to leave a party is when thay are still asking you to stay. > The time to walk offstage is while the audience is still cheering > The time to leave teaching is when they still say: who are we going to get > > to replace you? > Yeah... What he said! I had a minor he

Random Thought: "It's No Secret"

I just finished reading Louis' latest humanistic dissertation and as usual I was amused/perplexed/inspired/annoyed. But I keep coming back to the same question: how do you know that you're a good teacher? Sure, we can all cite examples of students coming to us to swear that we're the greatest tea

Random Thought: Let's Stop Putting All the Blame on the Students

> Louis_Schmier wrote > "You know, I wish I had a dollar each time I heard those > long-running, self-pitying periodic professorial moanings and groanings. > When students are excited, enthused, turned on, perform as we want and > expect, we don't hesitate to lay claim to the reward and pro

Rethinking Sin

What you discuss is not dissimilar from Donald Campbell's (1975) view as described in his presidential address to APA (Amer. Psychologist 30 (12) 1103-1126). In that paper "On the Conflicts between Biological and Social Evolution and between Psychology and Moral Tradition) he argues that psycholog

Guess who is coming to dinner?

You wrote are we being put on again? Could it be that Michael is waving a red >flag in front of us to see if anyone charges? Naw, how could anyone think that Michael Sylvester would intentionally initiate a discussion for the sole purpose of getting people riled? ~

study time

I just have to share this cautionary tale with the group. It explains a lot. A student in my PSY100 class came in to try to figure out why she's failed all the tests to date. The following is a reasonably accurate description of our conversation: > She: I don't know why I'm doing so badly. I st

mandatory commencement attendance?

Granted it's been 26 years since I bought a gown but it was dirt cheap. I bought a "disposable" gown. It's thin, cheap material but it only gets worn once or twice a year and a little needle & thread keeps it in repair. You might want to check out sites for high school gowns. I think it's a sa

Random Thought: Dead Fish

Louis wrote "As (I) was watching the smooth > sweep of the Koi, I started to think once again of a question a troubled > graduate student at a Texas university posed to me over the internet with > which I had trouble answering.She said in a way I could > almost see the tears in her

Psychotropic medication and placental barrier?

The short answer is that both the placenta & blood-brain barrier are lipoidal barriers, selectively passing lipid soluble (and small sized) molecules. This means that, for the most part, anything that gets into the brain will cross the placenta. Since both steroid hormones and lithium have centr

Intro questions

> From: "Annette Taylor, Ph. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Here are a couple of questions from students: > > Where in the brain is taste information processed and what is the pathway? The primary auditory cortex is on the Isle of Reil, inside the lateral fissure. Think of it as an inferior extensi

RE: Intro questions

Oops. I meant "gustatory." (embarrassment) > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:53 PM > To: Pollak, Edward > Subject: Re: Intro questions > > Hi Ed: > > Thanks for

FW: Blatant heterosexism

> David Epstein wrote > And here's one more--the reference for what I referred to yesterday as > the "Bowie/Jagger" hypothesis of heterozygote advantage (i.e. having > one copy of a recessive "gay allele" increases men's sexual allure). > > A related hypothesis might be that the "gay allele(s)" h

Hormones & female infants

> "Rob Weisskirch" wrote > A student claims that because of the added hormones during pregnancy that > female infants sometimes have residual hormone levels and have like a > mini-period shortly after birth. Is this really a "mini-period?" or is it > fluid that is trapped in the > vagina that co

Prosopagnosia question

If I remember correctly, these patients cannot consciously distinguish between the faces of strangers and friends/family. But if you hook them up to a polygraph, they show different reactions to strange VS familiar faces... not unlike "blindsight." Can anyone confirm this? Ed ~~~

Good news for guys

I apologize in advance but I can't help myself. Q: Why do men die before their wives. A: Because they want to. Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D., happily married for 34 years and counting! Department of Psychology, West Chester Univ. of Pennsylvan

Welcome to University? Fw: Test???

I have mixed feelings about such pleas. On the one hand, I am as appalled as you at the "chutzpah." On the other hand, despite my reputation as being "tough," I'm really an old softie and if someone tells me "I was sick," "I was in a car accident," my aunt died," etc. I almost always fall for it

Welcome to University? Fw: Test???

Rip Pasacreta wrote > Sorry, but I don't believe in reinforcing procrastination. > None of us do, Rip. But as others have mentioned, there are occasionally valid excuses that are difficult to verify. But more than that, I think that we often fail to realize the import of grades on a student's li

Usefulness vs. Historical

What would your physicists say about the "law of gravity?" Einstein demonstrated that this "law" is incorrect when you are predicting certain things (e.g., the orbit of Mercury) but it's still considered a "law" because it provides a useful algorithm for predicting/explaining most phenomena. Has th

Ego psychology

Allen Esterson wrote "As you would expect me to say, it is questionable whether Freud's ego-psychological model has made any valuable impact on the development of modern psychology." I would agree wholeheartedly and would add that much of the problem (but by no means all) has come from people (

2 Tenure track: Cognitive & Child/Adol. Clinical

Please forward to any interested colleagues or students.. Ed --- WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA anticipates hiring two tenure track faculty at the assistant professor level. Child or Adolescent Clinical Psychology: The successful applicant

making a deal with students

Doug Peterson wrote "I have made one similar deal involving grading of essay tests: "If I don't have your essay exams returned within one week you all get 5 extra points" (which in 7 years of teaching I've never had to do!) This however leads me to ask others the following: Is it necessary or

making a deal with students

Carol & Doug rightly took me to task for implying that there never reasons for missing a deadline. Mea maxima culpa. I didn't quite mean that! Some things are obviously beyond the best planning. I was thinking of the more mundane sorts of excuses of the kind that, when students give them, have

Tenure Track Clinical Position

Title: Message Please circulate as widely as possible. We've had very few applications this far and we'd really like to see more good candidates! Ed   -  WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA anticipates hiring a Child or Adolescent Clinical Psychologist at the as

The legacy of Little Albert

The legacy of Little Albert takes a seasonal twist. http://www.southflorida.com/news/sfl-scaredsanta.photogallery ~~~ Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylva

Therapeutic efficacy (was "Candy Colored Clown")

Stephen wrote "All I ask is one convincing study with objective criteria for improvement, against an equally- credible control group (say, for example, psychotherapy by interpretation of goat entrails)." Wow! Psychotherapist = haruspex. Someone has finally started a thread that let's me use o

Ed. Psych as a general education course?

One of the consultants brought in to help revise the University's curriculum for Education majors has asserted that Ed Psych is widely accepted as meeting the General Education requirements of many schools... Can I get a feel from the group as to whether Ed. Psych. can serve as a general educ

Koko want wardrobe malfunction

FWIW, I was having dinner with a colleague last night who'd worked with some of Koko's keepers. These (male) keepers related that Koko loved it when they would lift their shirts, exposing their nipples. So maybe it's a gender-neutral nipple fetish! Ed I am on sabbatical during the spring

the other gates: off topic but very funny

This should amuse the art lovers among you, especially those in New York City. . http://www.not-rocket-science.com/gates.htm Ed --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PRO

Rate my professor

I've followed these for several years. Last semester I even tried an experiment. On the first day of class I brought the web site up on the room's projection screen and used the student ratings of me to convince the students that a) I'm a nice guy and b) I'm tough and if you think you're going

Obesity Danger May Have Been (vastly) Overstated

Yet another reason why the health risks of obesity are overstated. My wife has always assured me that infidelity would likely lead to death (or at least the loss of certain body parts) so, as a fat man, it's good to know I'm at low risk! Ed Edward I. Pollak

Commentary on Kansas' Intelligent Design from Washington Post

Verbatim: Noodle This, Kansas There's been no lack of commentary since the Kansas State Board of Education began debating whether to teach "intelligent design" alongside evolution in the public schools. One of the more unusual submissions to the board came from Bobby Henderson, a 24-year-old gr

S. African AIDS Expert Urges Circumcision (OT)

OT but pretty darned interesting: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050924/ap_on_he_me/south_africa_aids Ed Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Office hours: Mondays noon

[WCU SUSPECTED SPAM] Human Sexuality Questions

Nancy asked 1) If a man has one testicle removed, does it lower his sperm count? If it does, it's not by much. With the loss of one testic you get "compensatory testicular hypertrophy." Essentially, the loss of a one source of testosterone causes an increase in the production of anterior pitui

Tenure-Track Position for I/O Psychology

Please circulate to any interested colleagues/students. Ed - West Chester University anticipates hiring a tenure-track faculty member in Industrial/Organizational Psychology at the Assistant Professor level. Candidates must be able to teach graduate course

Has Anyone Ever Taught A Course on the "Psychology of Religious Conversion"?

One book for the course might be Andy Newberg's "Why God Won't Go Away." It deals with the neurobiology of religion written for the layman. See http://www.andrewnewberg.com/books.asp Ed ~~~ Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Dept. of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsyl

Has Anyone Ever Taught A Course on the "Psychology of Religious Conversion"?

m <http://mywebpages.comcast.net/epollak/home.htm> Subject: Re: Has Anyone Ever Taught A Course on the "Psychology of Religious Conversion"? From: "Mike Palij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:03:36 -0400 X-Message-Number: 4 Pollak, Edward writes: &g

a very cool illusion

Check this out. http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D. Department of Psychology, West Chester University of Pennsylvania Office hours: Mondays noon-2 & 3-4; Tuesdays & Thursdays 8-9:15 a.m. and 12:30-2 p.m. W

[tips] Ethnomusicologists against torture

Just FYI... the ultimate compendium of music jokes is maintained by a guy at M.I.T. and may be found at http://www.mit.edu/people/jcb/jokes/. Too many of these are simply recast versions of old lawyer and blond jokes. (The current banjoist in my band is delightful young woman with

[tips] RE: Psychology/Out of Africa

The most compelling question for me is why you people even bother to respond? We've all had that student in class who, whenever he opens his mouth, elicits the synchronized rolling of dozens of eyeballs. In class I feel compelled to respond to poor soul described above. I feel no such compulsion o

[tips] Re: states of consciousness

[EMAIL PROTECTED] asked "I think that the stages of sleep are differing states of consciousness, but what about the following, which came up in class today? alpha (awake, relaxed), when taking Benadryl or some other drugs with side effects of drowsiness, and a change in alertness and reaction ti

[tips] Re: states of consciousness

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 aware of their surroundings." This implies that conscious is a

[tips] Re: states of consciousness

Peter wrote > 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&#

[tips] Re: states of consciousness

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? If not, what is missing beyond the tautological observation that they are not human?" I don't believ

[tips] Re: states of consciousness

Marc Carter asked: "if I am completely engrossed in a pain, in what sense would I not be conscious? Even though in this case the pain and the awareness of that pain cannot be physically separated, they can be conceptually separated, and so we have that "aboutness" -- but in this case without the

[tips] Angry God, angry people

Angry God, angry people New re­search may clar­i­fy the re­la­tion­ship be­tween re­li­gious in­doc­tri­na­tion and vi­o­lence, a top­ic that has gained new no­to­ri­ety since the Sept. 11 at­tacks. In the stu­dy, psy­chol­o­gist Brad Bush­man of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Mich­i­gan in Ann Ar­bor,

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