Fwd: Mathematical Psychology

1999-09-08 Thread Drnanjo
Listdenizens, Maybe someone has a lead for this fellow? Regards, Nancy Melucci El Camino College Torrance, CA Hi everyone, I am presently doing a Masters by research in cognitive psychology. Next year I plan to pursue PhD studies in Mathematical Psychology. However, I know of only a few

Re: East Timor - Apology

1999-09-08 Thread David Bennett
Woolf wrote: Hi Nancy, I hope you don't restrain from posting important issues/topics to the list. Just because others may not see connections to psychology and teaching does not mean that they don't exist. I can't begin to tell you how many times {snip} The comparison to the "get rich

re: theories of psychotherapy

1999-09-08 Thread David Wasieleski, Ph.D.
Corsini Wedding are still going strong; I use it in my graduate-level class. It's in the 5th edition from Peacock Press. It might be a challenging text for seniors, but that may depend on the seniors involved. They also publish an accompanying casebook (Wedding and Corsini) that is quite good as

Re: Exotic Spices

1999-09-08 Thread Richard Platt
You might also want to point out that taste and odor both contribute to flavor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/07 9:37 PM Listfriends, No I haven't deteriorated to posting soft core porn to the list. This is re: Sense and Perception unit. In discussing the division of the taste buds - sweet,

RE: course evaluations

1999-09-08 Thread Paul Brandon
At 1:26 PM -0400 9/7/99, Rick Adams wrote: Add the fact that expected grade is the best predictor of course evaluations, and the fact that freshman have no frame of reference with which to grade college profs, and imho, the site is useless to anyone who is not naive. Then why would an

Re: Exotic Spices

1999-09-08 Thread Donald H. McBurney
Most spices are probably mostly olfactory, but the hot ones such as chili peppers (capsaicin), pepper (piperine), and ginger (zingerone) stimulate pain fibers. Although chili peppers do have a flavor, which is about the same as sweet peppers, the hotness comes from pain alone. One can

request for text recommendations

1999-09-08 Thread Matthew W. Prull
Hi TIPSters, In the spring I'll be teaching two new undergraduate courses and I was wondering whether anyone has suggestions for particular texts. The courses are intro research methods and cognitive aging. Thanks - Matt Prull Matthew W. Prull, Ph.D. Assistant Professor

Re: Exotic Spices

1999-09-08 Thread Mike Scoles
Richard Platt wrote: You might also want to point out that taste and odor both contribute to flavor. and texture, and temperature, and appearance, and satiety. . . Gibson's distinction between "tasting" and "gustation" is a good one. How many of us "gustate?" --

Re: East Timor - Apology

1999-09-08 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi Tipsters David Bennett wrote: Just because you don't see the connection to psychology of "get rich internet schemes" doesn't mean they don't exist. Hmmm. . . now who was it that said that? I don't know who may have made that particular comment (must of not been reading my posts

RE: Mathematical Psychology

1999-09-08 Thread Rick Adams
Nancy wrote: Maybe someone has a lead for this fellow? As I recall, both Dartmouth and UC Berkeley offer graduate studies in this area. One of my professors when I was working on my Master's was a psychologist who had spent some time in the Mathematics department at Dartmouth

Computer-mediated communication and aggression

1999-09-08 Thread Linda Lebie
Research comparing face-to-face (FTF) and computer-mediated (CMC) communication has been done by social psychologists specializing in small group research for a number of years. The latest references I can offer are from 1992. I am sure many more studies have been done and published since that

Re: request for text recommendations

1999-09-08 Thread Michael J. Kane
As a supplemental methods text I *strongly* recommend Keith Stanovich's "How To Think Straight About Psychology" (1998, 5th edition, Longman Publishing). This book should be required reading for every graduate and undergraduate psychology student, in my humble opinion. -Mike

RE: East Timor - Apology

1999-09-08 Thread Rick Adams
Linda wrote: Perhaps, you could list the number or name of the APA divisions for the "get rich internet scheme" division, the journals that focus only on this topic, the name of the graduate program at a major research institution focusing on this branch of psychology, etc. Sounds

Re: request for text recommendations

1999-09-08 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi folks, "Matthew W. Prull" wrote: In the spring I'll be teaching two new undergraduate courses and I was wondering whether anyone has suggestions for particular texts. The courses are intro research methods and cognitive aging. Depending on your focus and needs, I recommend the

Re: East Timor - Apology

1999-09-08 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Here we go again! Rick Adams wrote: "Get Rich Quick" schemes are marketing approaches snipping Sorry, Linda, but despite the "silly sounding" concept--it IS as valid a topic for discussion here as is East Timor. Just a quick reminder to folks to follow an entire thread

Re: request for text recommendations

1999-09-08 Thread ANN MUIR THOMAS
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Michael J. Kane wrote: As a supplemental methods text I *strongly* recommend Keith Stanovich's "How To Think Straight About Psychology" (1998, 5th edition, Longman Publishing). This book should be required reading for every graduate and undergraduate psychology student,

RE: East Timor - Apology

1999-09-08 Thread Rick Adams
Linda wrote: Personally, I have no problem with get rich schemes being discussed here or in classes related to the topics mentioned. I was responding to the tenor of a post that insinuated that such topics as ethnopolitical conflict were totally irrelevant to psychology (again see

Re: request for text recommendations

1999-09-08 Thread pamela joyce shapiro
If you're interested in a neuropsych account of cognitive aging, check out _The Neuropsychology of Aging_ by Diana Woodruff-Pak (1997). The publisher is Blackwell. The Blackwell series on aging includes a general psychology of aging text (Birren Salthouse) and a cognitive aging text

www.collegestudent.com

1999-09-08 Thread Linda M. Woolf
Hi Folks, I just had a very pleasant phone conversation with Griffen Davis, V. P. Marketing at www.collegestudents.com. They are very open to input both from faculty and students and they are working to maintain a site that will be useful to students. In regards to students comments, they