M.Sylvester and racial comments.

1999-03-23 Thread Donette Steele
Hello everyone, I was told to ignore Michael but I just can't (but I will try after this). This post makes no sense to me at all (much like his last one). I don't think the first sentence should have been written in past tense because as the post continues we are in the present again. I would l

Re: Philosophy of teaching intro psych

1999-03-23 Thread SNRandall
In a message dated 3/23/99 9:29:03 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In my classes students are required to complete a term project. Last > semester I had such diversity of learning styles in my classes that I gave > them the option of a traditional research paper, a natura

Performance Anxiety

1999-03-23 Thread Stephen Black
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Michael Britt wrote: > Can anyone point me in a fruitful direction for resources on this topic, > particularly as it relates to musicians, actors, etc?? > Not particularly fruitful but I can contribute the one lonely and neglected paper in my file. It's Stanton (1994),

Re: Ph.d. vs. Psy.d. vs. LCSW vs. MFCC

1999-03-23 Thread Donette Steele
Hello everyone, Just joined and I have already found this to be a stimulating and diverse group. I do have opinions regarding the issue of Ph.D. vs. Psy.d vs. LCSW vs MFCC. For a teaching position at a university your bet bet would be a Ph.d. forget the Psy.d. An M.A. in Psychology will enable

Re: FW: New email virus (this is no joke)

1999-03-23 Thread Kathy A. Eads
This is an urban legend! It is a hoax! It is untrue! Kathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lynn DellaPietra, Ph.D." wrote: > Subject:New email virus (this is no joke) > > Hey everyone. I'm pretty sure this is for real, so be careful > > >If you receive an email titled "It Takes Guts to Say 'J

Re: Happy99.exe - apology

1999-03-23 Thread Ron Blue
> Obviously I had no idea my email was infected. CORRECT! > My anti >virus program did not catch it. CORRECT! None did until after the virus was invented.

Re: Intelligence Tests

1999-03-23 Thread Janice Swartz
Nina, The WISC III came out in 1991 and I believe the WISC-R came out in 1974. Intelligence tests have their roots with psychology being a separate discipline. This took place in latter part of the nineteenth century when Wundt set up the first scientific psychology lab. The study of mental

Re: Philosophy of teaching intro psych

1999-03-23 Thread Janice Swartz
Matt, The art of teaching is something that continually evolves with experience. What matters more than a "right" or "wrong" approach is to know your own teaching strengths and weaknesses so that you can maximize your strengths. Second is to know your students if that is feasible. With techn

RE: New email virus (this is no joke)

1999-03-23 Thread Rick Adams
This is another hoax--please do NOT forward it to everyone! It is _impossible_ for a text file to carry a virus. Not difficult--impossible! Unless a file is an attachment (i.e., a Microsoft Word file with an attached macro virus or an executable file such as happy99.exe) which _mu

Re: transplant recipients and anti-rejection medication

1999-03-23 Thread SNRandall
I was just asked off list whether or not anti-rejection medication is needed following corneal transplants. . . thought I'd share the answer to the list for those who may try to explain my 'behavior' based on extended use of steroids !! =) procrastinating again . . . Sandra NR In a message da

Guts to Say Jesus virus - HOAX!!

1999-03-23 Thread Mark Casteel
Please folks, practice some critical thinking skills before passing on every email you receive warning of some new and deadly virus. Take the time to verify what you receive. At the least, check a couple of reliable sources. The info below was cut and pasted from Symantec's (a popular anti-virus s

Re: Heart transplant recipients

1999-03-23 Thread RICHARD PISACRETA
When I was a kid a local priest received one of the first heart transplants. The donor was an executed strangler. The priest started choking people in the confessional. Only kidding, but this was a tv show plot about 30 years ago. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Ph.D. vs. Psy.D. vs. LCSW vs.???

1999-03-23 Thread Weisskirch, Rob
As one of the few MSW/Ph.D. combos, I want to add my two cents to this thread. I usually approach this issue looking at time, money and prestige. Now, I know that people will disagree with my thinking on this but feel free to add your own interpretations. Also, all my facts are from California

Happy99.exe - apology

1999-03-23 Thread Marie Helweg-Larsen
Hi Tipsters First my most sincere apology for infecting the list and causing any of you any inconvenience. Obviously I had no idea my email was infected. My anti virus program did not catch it. I have now learned my lesson: never run any programs even if mailed from a known source, and keep yo

Journal with review process list

1999-03-23 Thread Ron Apland
Does anyone know where I could get hold of a list of non-APA psychology (and related) journals with the type of review process required for publication? I know it will be impossible to get a complete list but any list would be better than starting from scratch. Thanks. Ron Ron Apland [EMAI

Re: Student mellab (LONG)

1999-03-23 Thread Jennifer Trich Kremer
Annette & Others, E-Prime is an upgraded version of the full MEL System. From what I have been told by Psych. Software Tools, there is no plan for having a student (MELLAB) type version. At 11:40 AM 3/23/99 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: > > >In order to save space I deleted your long posting, b

Re: Performance Anxiety

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Michael Britt wrote: > Can anyone point me in a fruitful direction for resources on this topic, > particularly as it relates to musicians, actors, etc?? > > Thanks for the help..Mike > There is an interesting segment on Basketball performance anxiety of Karl

RE: What is important about psychology?

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Johnna K. Shapiro wrote: > At 12:30 PM -0500 3/23/99, Michael Sylvester wrote: > > I point out to students that there are basically four ways to > >establish belief:by authority,feelins,reason and the scientific. > >SNIP... > >psychology examines all these > >methods in

FW: New email virus (this is no joke)

1999-03-23 Thread Lynn DellaPietra, Ph.D.
-- From: Joseph Kishman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 2:56 PM To: Alec Meltzer; Amy Hammersmith; Ann Francis; Bill Carmichael; Burke; Carl T Jankiewicz; Chris Caruso; Chris Rutledge; Clarion Wise; Dan Applegate; Dan Piper; Dave Effross; Eddie Belmont; Em

Re: I/O Texts--brief note

1999-03-23 Thread David Campbell
In response to Bob Keefer's post: "...I certainly hope Frank Landy's 'Psychology of Work Behavior' is still being published. I've used it, happily, for years. And I'm hoping to use it this fall..." I checked the Brooks/Cole web site and found that Landy is indeed still available, but we're talki

RE: Student mellab (LONG)

1999-03-23 Thread Gary Klatsky
I agree with Bob that EPrime will be a great upgrade to Mel Professional. I have the beta version and it is a much more user friendly package. There is, however, no upgrade to Mellab that is out there as far as I know. Given the new interface, it will be easy to generate the canned experiments t

Re:Micheal Sylvester's comments on "What is Important"

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Donette Steele wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am just trying to figure out what M.Sylvester means by "there may be > dead persons walking". Also how do dead minds walk? Also how will > psychology awaken their minds- students, "dead persons" and "walking > dead minds". I

RE: What is important about psychology?

1999-03-23 Thread Johnna K. Shapiro
At 12:30 PM -0500 3/23/99, Michael Sylvester wrote: > I point out to students that there are basically four ways to >establish belief:by authority,feelins,reason and the scientific. >SNIP... >psychology examines all these >methods in order to allow them to look for flaws in arguments. I was

Performance Anxiety

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Britt
Can anyone point me in a fruitful direction for resources on this topic, particularly as it relates to musicians, actors, etc?? Thanks for the help..Mike --- Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. Psychology Department

Re: I/O Texts--brief note

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Keefer
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, David Campbell wrote: > I would love to see a systematic assessment of ALL the I/O texts if > someone has the time. These "other texts" include: Jewell, Aamodt, > Lowenberg & Conrad, Smither, Berry, Cascio, Riggio, Spector, Auerbach, Saal > & Knight, and Dipboye et al.

testosterone and IQ levels

1999-03-23 Thread Deb Briihl
Need some help here. In my senior seminar, a group of students were presenting a debate on racial differences in intelligence (a topic from the taking sides book). For the side stating that there ARE racial differences, one argument that this person used was that Blacks tend to have higher testost

I/O Texts--brief note

1999-03-23 Thread David Campbell
Several weeks ago, comments on texts surveying industrial/organizational psychology were summarized here. This posting included an item from the TIPS archive in which I said the Schultz & Schultz text ("Psychology & Work Today," Prentice Hall) was superficial when compared with Muchinsky ("P

Re: Student mellab (also Superlab)

1999-03-23 Thread Kenneth M. Steele
Another program to consider is SuperLabPro. They have had a 16-bit windows version for quite a while and are currently testing their 32-bit version. Demo versions can be found at www.cedrus.com Ken -- Kenneth M. Steele[EMAIL PROTECTED] Associate Professo

dentures (was Heart Trans)

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
do people who wear dentures undergo a radical change in their eating preferences? after all,if they have lost and removed their natural teeth when they were eating mangoes,do they now change to tamarind? Btw,there is a story about a person who underwent a penile enhancing procedure.He said that

Re:Micheal Sylvester's comments on "What is Important"

1999-03-23 Thread Donette Steele
Hello everyone, I am just trying to figure out what M.Sylvester means by "there may be dead persons walking". Also how do dead minds walk? Also how will psychology awaken their minds- students, "dead persons" and "walking dead minds". I would love to see one of the walking dead minds, in fact

Re: Student mellab (LONG)

1999-03-23 Thread Annette Taylor
In order to save space I deleted your long posting, but what I am curious about is whether there will be a complementary Mellab program. The E-prime sounds like an upgraded version of the full Mel system but not the student version, called Mellab. I am more interested in a student version than

Re: Heart transplant recipients

1999-03-23 Thread SNRandall
In a message dated 3/23/99 1:53:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Subj: Re: Heart transplant recipients > Date:3/23/99 1:53:06 PM Eastern Standard Time > From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Allen) > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-to:mailto:[EMAIL PR

Re: Student mellab (LONG)

1999-03-23 Thread Bob Keefer
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Annette Taylor wrote: > But if they don't go to a windows format with the new P2s coming > in we will have to deep six them too. But they have! The beta is currently testing. This is a little long, but there's obviously some interest here. I'll attach the announcement be

Re: Heart transplant recipients

1999-03-23 Thread Don Allen
Mathew- I don't have any hard data on this, but my sister-in-law is the recipient of a heart and very active in the area of transplant support groups. I asked if they had head of anything in this area and I got the following response: Don - My info is anectdotal from people in Barries group,

the lost letter technique

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
Remember when social psychologists -in order to assess honesty and integrity-employed the lost letter technique? Letters were left at several locations and depending on how many were returned,they would make judgments about people. I have been toying with the idea of having students drop letters

RE: What is important about psychology?

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
I point out to students that there are basically four ways to establish belief:by authority,feelins,reason and the scientific. And that their life is guided by these.So they make judgments about their world based on these and that psychology examines all these methods in order to allow t

Re: tyson's eval

1999-03-23 Thread SNRandall
Couldn't resist this one ! The report is entitled, Independent Medical Evaluation for the Nevada State Athletic Commission. The commission was seeking advice in the question of whether or not Tyson was/is fit to warrant reinstatement of his boxing license. It appears as though the actual and c

Re: SIOP?

1999-03-23 Thread Michael Sylvester
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Erica Klein wrote: > Wondering if any list members will be attending/presenting at the Division > 14 conference in Atlanta next month? Might be nice to put some faces to > some names... > Erica Klein > University of Houston > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > don't they have thei

Re: Student mellab

1999-03-23 Thread David Bennett
> annette > > ps. anyone know where 'deep six' comes from? >From burying 'six feet under'? Dave === David J. Bennett Ph.D.Voice: 617/521-2603 Department of Psychology Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Simmons College 300 The Fenway

RE: What is important about psychology?

1999-03-23 Thread Susan Howell
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Gary Klatsky wrote: > Like many of you I have added a critical thinking > component to my class (I use Levy, 1997 Tools of Critical Thinking) and use > > Gary, Do you require this as a student text, or do you choose assignments from Levy's book? I've recently become i

Re: Student mellab

1999-03-23 Thread Annette Taylor
I have run into similar problems. One thing I have found that helps it work is to exit windows and reboot in dos. running the dos prompt through windows is when we get the problem of blank screens. Yes, it is time I think to go to a new program. I've been looking at Lab in Cognition and Perceptio

SIOP?

1999-03-23 Thread Erica Klein
Wondering if any list members will be attending/presenting at the Division 14 conference in Atlanta next month? Might be nice to put some faces to some names... Erica Klein University of Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tyson's eval

1999-03-23 Thread Tim Shearon
>Ethics Question, perhaps: Mike Tyson's psy eval was published on net by >"smoking gun". Why is this public domain? The only thing that might make sense is to claim that it was obtained with public funds as a part of the criminal justice system? But that can't be right. My recollection is that

RE: What is important about psychology?

1999-03-23 Thread Chuck Huff
For folks who are going to APA this summer, you might be interested in a symposium that David Wulff has organized and that I will be participating in. Don't know any more details than I can provide from the mail below. The idea of the symposium is to alternatives to using the standard textbok in

FW: Obituary for Mary Ainsworth (

1999-03-23 Thread Dr. Kristina Lewis
> -- > (written by Inge Bretherton, Professor, Child and Family Studies, > University of Wisconsin-Madison) > > Mary D. Salter Ainsworth, one of the preeminent developmental > psychologists > of the 20th century, died in Charlottesville, VA on March 21, 1999, after > a > lengthy illne

tyson's eval

1999-03-23 Thread pkolodin
Ethics Question, perhaps: Mike Tyson's psy eval was published on net by "smoking gun". Why is this public domain?

Re: path analysis

1999-03-23 Thread Pat Cabe
Dennis, You might find it useful to take a look at the chapter on path analysis in the APA volume edited by Grimm & Yarnold, _Reading and understanding multivariate statistics_ (APA, 1995).. It's a conceptual introduction with a list of references for additional reading. Pat Cabe

Random Thought: DARKNESS: My Third Word For Good Teaching

1999-03-23 Thread Louis_Schmier
Good morning. Just came in from a delightful although deliberately short walk. And does it feel good. I've been off the streets for a couple of weeks. A hip kink from a misstep and the ravages of whatever non-flu crud was racing around here will do that. I have to admit that as I step

Interpersonal therapy

1999-03-23 Thread pkolodin
Looking for a good protocol on how to do Interpersonal Therapy (IPT) as part of Counseling Psych lesson. Ideas? Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A meme is a terrible thing to waste

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel Kruger
Looks like I will have to seek out "The Meme Machine" for some good reading this summer. Dawkins and Dennett see meme selection as a process that conforms to the laws of natural selection exactly. As an aspiring social psychologist, I have to disagree. This doesn't fit with the massive