RE: replacement for the dead grandmother

Dead grandmothers were rampant in Eastern Kentucky when I was at Pikeville College some 12 years ago. The faculty joke was that the local paper had to put out a special obituary issue finals week. Some of us devised an absence petition form that required documentation. In the case of deaths, I re

RE: statistics course

Dennis, In my opinion, Lockhart is the best stat book I've ever used. As you know, first hand, that covers 30 years of teaching stat. I did have a problem the first time I used Lockhart in that many of the topics no other text covered I had to add as lectures and handouts in the past. With Lock

RE: Affective aspects of teaching (fwd)

Marty, Even when they can parrot back to us what you say below, if you stick them with a pin they may say something like: "Radical behaviorism is the behaviorism that most people _instinctively_ think of when the term is mentioned."The young man who wrote that on a test last week went on to ri

RE: Reviews on human sex differences?

s of Sexual Coercion." "The latest deadweight dragging us closer to phrenology is 'evolutionary psychology...'" Al Cone -Original Message- From: John W. Kulig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 8:46 AM To: Michael J. Kane Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Skepticism, Science, Religion, and Respect

Mike, Stopping the mouths of lions is a frequent biblical metaphor for God taking care of those who are faithful to him. That's the case in Daniel 6:18-24 to which your student refers. Notice that in the last verse of that pericope the evil people who had falsely accused Daniel are torn to piece

SEPA Tipsters

Folks, My sincere apologies. My paper session ran way over time, and I was the last presenter. Then, all sorts of folks hung around to ask questions and I politely stayed to answer. I didn't have any way to communicate with you guys. Sorry. I was really looking forward to it. Al

SEPA

Southeastern Tipsters? With SEPA finally going back to New Orleans, are any of you going? Anybody want to get together for lunch? See the faces behind the emails? I know there are a lot of Tipsters from SE institutions. I've been in ND for 12 years, but SEPA's my roots, and I wouldn't miss one

RE: Help with Fairy Tales?

Shirley, My wife (Reference Librarian for the ND State Library) says, off the top of her head, that MLA has a data base equivalent to our PsycInfo. It, too, is subscription only, but some member of your English faculty may be a subscriber. That may be the best starting place. Sorry she can't r

FW: Tenderness/Moral Equivalent...?

TED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone The Internet is democracy at its ugliest. Apologies to Paddy Chayefsky who said this about television -Original Message- From: Prof. Frank Pajares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, March 20, 200

FW: William James and dope

Dear Professor Schultz, The teaching of Psychology listserve, in the process of discussing William James' use of nitrous oxide, included the following. I'm sure the list would interested in why the classic poem was deleted as well any other comments you may have to make. Al L. Cone, Ph.D.

Lost URL

Folks, Some how I've deleted the TIPs URL. Would someone please forward it to me. Thanks in advance. Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone The Internet is democracy at its ugliest. Apologies to Paddy Chayefsky

RE: William James does dope

gliest. Apologies to Paddy Chayefsky who said this about television -Original Message- From: Tim Shearon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 4:25 PM To: Bill/Hank/et al Subject: RE: William James does dope Al Cone pointed out that I forgot to include the source of the "

RE: [Re: activities,demos,group work (long)]

-Original Message- From: Paul C. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 11:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Re: activities,demos,group work (long)] > Dennis Byrnes wrote: > > One of the objectives of our new general education plan is > to help students

RE: Free on-line journals

Stephen, Many thanks, though it is notable that the American Psychological Association despite an extensive letter writing campaign by members last year still refuses to allow any of its publications to go on line unless one is a member of APA and either subscribes to at least one hard copy journa

RE: Question - Standard Scores & Standardized Distributions

Judith, My favorite history of stat book is: Stiger, S.M., (1986). _The history of statistics_, Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D.Professor & Chair Department of Psychology 6019 College Lane Jamestown College Jamestown, ND 58405 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jc.

RE: customer friendly?

-Original Message- From: Richard Pisacreta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 25, 2000 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: customer friendly? >From: Paul Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >He is the very model of >a modern University President. > > Is that good? Pa

FW: Annie Glenn Chairs Stuttering Awareness Week.

Last comment (I promise) -Subject: Annie Glenn Chairs Stuttering Awareness Week. Annie Glenn is a product of the Hollins stuttering training program I mentioned a couple of emails back on this topic. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http:

FW: The superstar who couldn't speak. (basketball player Bob Love )

More stuttering. Sometime last fall someone asked about the basketball player who stuttered. Well, here's a reference. Source: Reader's Digest, Nov 1992 v141 n847 p49(5). Title: The superstar who couldn't speak. (basketball player Bo

RE: More on stuttering

Years ago Wendell Johnson wrote a book entitled _People in Quandaries_, a general semantics approach to various "mental" illnesses. One chapter was, I seem to recall, called The Indians have no word for it. This chapter was about stuttering. The long and short of it was that Native Americans have

RE: Antidromic Conduction

Rob, et al., If I recall correctly there was a major research effort in Japan (at least most of the authors had distinctly Japanese names) during the early 1960s, e.g., Suzuki. It was produced in the lab by using a cold cuff around the sensory root. Somewhere I may still have a copy of a paper rev

RE: take-home tests

Another bad excuse for take-homes: Twice in my 12 years here I have missed most of a semester because of illness. Since I could not be certain that critical material was covered by my substitute, I have constructed a take-home final that would require that they construct a major essay or two on th

RE: The end of the world as we know it?

Rip, Your prognostications, tongue in cheek I'm sure, reminds me of this goodie on the failure of those who predict for a living: http://www.csicop.org/articles/psychic-predictions/1999.html Rip, I know your predictions were tongue in cheek, but they remind me of the following from CSICOP on th

RE: Screwy stats; top of my head

Stephen, Since M-W compares ranks (the two groups are put together for common ranking and then separated again if I recall correctly) it is possible, though I think not too likely that the two groups could have a common median. Your neighbor, Robert Lockhart, at the University of Toronto whose st

Data fudging

Tipsters, This a spin off of the recent double-dipping discussion. Has anyone had reason to apply Benford's Law to detect data fudging?. Do you know of software that does the "Digital Analysis" proposed by Nigrini? Wouldn't properly set up stemplots give you at least an eyeball approximation of

The little boy from Cuba

Folks, I don't know how a discussion of the little boy from Cuba entered the lists (double meaning intended), but the Atlanta Constitution editorial cartoon of 12/9/99 by Mike Luckovich does seem to have a little relevance to psychology. See: http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/newsatlanta/

RE: Castro/Life Span Development

Paul, Lukowich (sp) cartoon in this morning's Atlanta Journal/Constitution shows guy with all sorts of guns saying to the kid, "If you go back to Cuba, you'll have to learn to fight other kids with your fists" or words to that effect. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North D

RE: Suspected cheating/double-dipping

Erica, We have researchers give student participants an extra credit "ticket" which identifies the research project and which asks the participant several simple questions about the project. These tickets are collected twice each semester. One ticket; no double-dipping. Granted this is the procedu

RE: origins of "occupational therapy"?

David, This will be very incomplete, but I read a book on the eugenic movement in North America several months ago. One of the featured psychiatrists was director at Butler Hospital in Providence, RI early in this century. The author quoted him as emphasizing occupational therapy as part of the t

RE: psych minor

Rip, Total of 25 semester hours; 16 of those are required. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone -Original Message- From: RICHARD PISACRETA [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November 26, 1

RE: Test for sense of humour

Dap, There are bunches for adults that we have used with freshmen. I know of none that are specific to adolescents. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone -Original Message- From: DAP Louw (Sielkun

RE: Teaching uncertainty

mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 3:35 PM Cc: TIPS Subject: RE: Teaching uncertainty Hi On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Al Cone wrote: > in to dualistic/absolutistic thinking. An, in progress, student project > which described professors whose behaviors typify each of Perry'

Birdseed

Folks, Someone else may have rained on the MIT student birdseed parade which was interesting if often misinformed about conditioning mechanisms, but here is the URL from which it comes. http://www.snopes.com/college/pranks/birdseed.htm Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nor

RE: Teaching uncertainty

-Original Message- From: Paul C. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 8:20 AM To: 'TIPS' Subject: RE: Teaching uncertainty Al Cone wrote: Jim Clark wrote: > Perry studied student development in Universities and found that > students (on av

RE: Teaching uncertainty

-Original Message- From: Jim Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 1999 12:42 AM Cc: TIPS Subject: Re: Teaching uncertainty HI On Sat, 20 Nov 1999, Jeff Ricker wrote: > It seems to me that a particular motivation--the need for certainty--is > a primary determinant

RE: Red River Conference

Jim, Unless there's another flood it will be at one of the three schools in the Fargo area. NDSU, MSU, and Concordia take turns, but I can't recall whose turn it is. It's only 100 miles, so we almost always have a few students present posters. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: threshold

Bill, I doubt it. That's the same value given in my dog eared copy of Geldard's Human Senses from 1953 and he gives no reference for it either. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone -Original Messag

RE: Belling the dog/ Pavlov: bell or metronome?

Stephen, I thought you were also a member of the Chieron list. On these two topics Roger Thomas presented his finding a little less than a year ago if I recall in response to questions raised by members of that august body. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701

RE: jobs in psych

Rip, I recommend http://www.psywww.com/careers/index.htm Marky Lloyd's page. I seem to recall that it was from her that I got a disk with Appleby's book on it with permission to reproduce it. That was just over a year ago, and I assume it is still available. Oh, the entire http://www.psywww.

RE: Creative and Imaginative Curricula

John, Good for you. Right on target. However, I'd suggest that they get a half-dozen catalogs from first rate liberal arts colleges from the 1950s and propose the introduction of their curricular models. That would sure as heck be innovative and creative, and who knows, it might even do somethi

RE: RE: the failure to replicate

ke a distinction between "a failure to replicate" and "a failed replication". At 10:56 AM -0400 10/23/99, Kenneth M. Steele wrote: >On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:34:49 -0500 Al Cone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> In science we build by replicating (with extens

RE: RE: the failure to replicate

Fri, 22 Oct 1999 20:34:49 -0500 Al Cone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In science we build by replicating (with extensions) on the method side in > order to confirm or disconfirm the earlier findings of others. To say that > someone "failed to replicate" means that

RE: the failure to replicate

-Original Message- From: Stephen Black [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 4:53 PM To: TIPS Subject: Re: the failure to replicate > -- > >From: Michael Sylvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > what can be the various explanations why some studies have not > > be

RE: Maze learning in people and rats

Jeff, I'm pretty sure the maze referred to in # 2 is the "Hampton Court" which was once popular and was reproduced many places including the Governor's Place at Wiiliamsburg, VA where I once spent an afternoon wandering around in circles. I'd be willing to bet, though at home I don't have the re

RE: Aging teacher needs help

Good point, Paul. This morning I said "...robbing Peter to pay Paul," and got blank looks. Glad I knew its derivation. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone -Original Message- From: Paul C. Smith

RE: Value of "old" research: a dissenting view -- Practical Short -cut to the old

I suggest that students start with more recent research and use the reference sections of the recent articles to trace the topic back 20-30 years. This, by the way, is to be done using APA's _Thesuarus_ since the key terms tend to change over time. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: What do you do?

A few years ago I bought a ton of mailing labels. I didn't intend to, but there was this huge box. Students buy their own 9 X 11.5 envelopes. Papers are turned in in labeled envelopes and returned the same way on a table just outside the classroom. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTE

RE: "Old" research

Ah, Mark, you've pushed my button. Science is self correcting. If old references stand the test of time, they must be considered as valid examples of the principle they support. Yes, I know that once and a while something comes along that demands a change, but most of the time the principle cite

RE: TIPS Awards

Jeff, Perhaps the first part of your award has merit, but the second, "special recognition" for not using a filter, strikes me as a lot like giving an award for encouraging stupidity. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/use

RE: In Class History Activities

Tasha, I don't have the original reference handy, but it was from _ToPs_ about seven or eight years ago, and I've found it very useful. The author was a Randy, but not Randy Smith, the other one. Simple: Begin each day with a toast to a "Great Psychologist." Mere biographical renderings are not

RE: This is a test

Mike, It wouldn't solve all the design problems, but it's too bad you can't send half of them out of the room while you do the "F's" first and the "N's" second; then send them out while you reverse the orders. Then, examine both sets of data with them all back in the room. Al Al L. Cone Jamesto

RE: scopolamine & Child Birth Pain

Beth & others, Years and years ago I had a wife who did the totally natural child birth thing, not even an aspirin. I recall that in discussions by the natural childbirth group it was often said, partly in jest I thought, "It is a good thing we forget just how severe the pain is. If we really r

Dalai Lama

Jeff, Great article on the Dalai Lama about a month ago in the NY'er. It will answer questions you didn't even know you had. Al -Original Message- From: Jeff Ricker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 1:55 PM To: TIPS Subject: Oh, so that's where I left that spo

RE: Looking for some help!

pathways. This leads to the famous "possum trot." Al Cone -Original Message- From: Kent Korek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 8:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Looking for some help! Today my Advanced Placement Psychology class finished goin

Ritalin withdrawal?

Tipsters, I don't usually bother the list until I've exhausted the on-line search sources I have available to me. Well, I can't find anything either way on this. Background. My friend described how wonderful Ritalin was for his 7-year-old grandson. He supported how great it was by saying how

RE: drugs text

>= Original Message From Linda Walsh = >I think I'm ready for a new text in my Drugs and Behavior class. I used >Leavitt's book last. Does anyone have recommendations? > >Linda Walsh >University of Northern Iowa >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linda, I really like Palfai & Jankiewicz _Drugs and Hum

FWD: check this out

Tipsters, My reference librarian wife sent me this goodie this morning. It contains a wide assortment of style manuals and exercises to go with them. It was up to date in May, but the first one I tried had moved. Still, it may prove useful for students. >= Original Message From "Cone, Stel

RE: Help re I/O

Mark, In asking these questions you don't ask for one other important bit of data: what is your undergrad enrollment? Oops, maybe two bits: how many majors? With those added, enrollment = 1000; majors = 60 One unified I/O course, even Falls Al >= Original Message From Mark E. Ware

Theories of Psychotherapy

Folks, Our adjunct who teaches Theories of Psychotherapy -- a high 400-level course -- is more than a little unhappy with his text. Good man, he's thinking about a Spring course the second week of the Fall semester! All you good clinical-teaching types, listen up. What's a good text for an a

This Year's Freshmen

Friends, Here is this year's list of factors that comprise the cultural gap between us and this year's Freshpersons as developed at Beloit College and reported in USA Today. The URL contains the list. The article follows. Al http://www.usatoday.com/life/lds014.htm#class Today's college freshme

RE: Getting in to graduate school

Pat, Here's a time consuming, but I think, valuable technique. Start with a detailed literature search of the specific area in which you'd like to do research and become competent. Identify the authors. Don't forget that junior authors may now be assistant profs somewhere. Track down the autho

RE: 17-year old college students as subjects

o become members of the participant pool they have to state whether or not they are 18. Those who are not have a brief conference, and one faculty member takes the respnsibility of contacting the parents and getting a consent agreement ASAP. Al Cone Al L. Cone, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PR

LIST OF PUBLISHERS

Folks, Last week, or the week before, I'm not really sure, August 2 we got a new server and new email software and I'm more confused than usual, some one posted to the list a URL that contained a master list of book publishers. I clicked it and it really looked good, but in the middle something ha

RE: Introspection and cognitive psychology

hten me? > Buddy, It just can't be! Cognotive may be tender-minded, dualistic, and all that stuff, but you're right. Nothing that even looks like classical introspection, the method. Al Cone Jamestown College North Dakota >Thanks, >Buddy Grah >Dep't of Psychology >Austin Peay St. Univ. >Clarksville, TN 37044

Jeff's question

ead which hasn't been chopped off lately. I know of no cases of the body running around. Gilbert & Sullivan in _The Mikado_ has the Lord High Executioner sing of a head that smiled three times at him. Al Cone Jamestown College North Dakota who is struggling with a new and grossly inferior em

Re-hash:Multivariate text

Folks, A week or two ago there was a question about a multivariate text. It was rightly said that the APA paperback, while hardly an appropriate text, was a valuable resource if one were teaching such a course. Well, here's another. It is old, it is out of date in many ways, but if one really

Re: First day of class activities

On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, David wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mark Casteel went: > > [a really good little first-day quiz, including...] > > > 17. As people age, they sleep less. T SO TO BE ON THE SAFE SIDE: 17. AS PEOPLE AGE, THEY SLEEP LESS AT NIGHT. T Al > > Within the past three years, I'

Re: Activities for the first day of class

Michelle, Some time in the past there was a 20 item "quiz" (T/F as I recall) on this list. I've got it at school, but I'm home. Maybe someone else is the office and can pull it up. I recall that after scoring there are a bunch of half-witty comments to go with various scores, ranging from 0-8 --

Tangentical: Mallard Fillmore 7/18/99

If your Sunday Funnys don't contain Mallard Fillmore, I quote, frame by frame: 1. MALLARD: A Mallard Millennium Flashback...Looks at College in the Postmodern era: 2. PROFFESSOR: "As your professors it is our job to challenge your minds!... 3. "Up is down 4. "G

Re: multivariate text

On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, David Wasieleski, Ph.D. wrote: > um, not to be picky, but my name is David. ;-) > David W. > > >At 09:40 AM 7/7/99 -0500, Al Cone wrote: > >>By the way, the APA publication mentioned by Dan Wasieleski is a book that > >>should be o

Re: multivariate text

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Mike Scoles wrote: > Does anyone know of a good multivariate text that focuses primarily on > MANOVA? Most that I have found emphasize regression (e.g., factor > analysis, cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling). Mike, Our favoorite -- we've used it twice -- is Keppel (

Web Site Evaluations

Folks, Last Friday Hank Goldstein came through with Joyce Morris' list of URLs for evaluating web sites. It was a goodie, but the best one in my opinion was Two people at the library there have put together a fantastic collection of materials

Judith Rich Harris

Folks, She's back. Good interview with her on Not an area of interest for me, but thought I'd pass it on. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Psychology701.252.3467 X 2604 Jamestown College 6019 College Lane [EM

RE: Sleep question

More than you want to know. I suggest you start with and go down the 2nd column until you reach the article on biological clocks http://www.discover.com/july_99/featmind.html> There you will find a recent article for the non-clock person on recen

Re: Need Activities for I/O Class

On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Erica Klein wrote: > I'm in the middle of a fast fast 5 week semester, Intro to I/O Psych. > We're wrapping up I and getting into O. I would appreciate suggestions for > class activities, I am getting tired of talking and writing for 2 hours > every day! > > We have some

Re: Behaviorism & Walden Two

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Linda M. Woolf wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm using Walden Two in a class this summer and while surfing the web, I > ran across a Walden Two community's web site (Los Horcones: > http://www.loshorcones.org.mx/). > > Anyway, it says the following. I would love to get your feedb

Re: Korean dictionary in class

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Stephen Black wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Al Cone wrote: > > > Michael, > > > > Had that happen a few years ago when we experienced an influx of Japanese > > students who didn't have enough English to hack it here. Discovered that

Re: Korean dictionary in class

Michael, Had that happen a few years ago when we experienced an influx of Japanese students who didn't have enough English to hack it here. Discovered that they were depending on the very detailed dictionary definitions of terms. Got a local person whose wife was Japanese to examine the dictionar

FW: Focus on electronic Information 99-5 (fwd)

Too lazy to go to the library? Dependent on the internet. My wife forwarded the following web site to me, and it has got to be the most complete, well-organized thing of its kind I've ever seen. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Psychology 701.252.3467 X 2604 Jamest

Taking the cheating bull by the horns

Many useful suggestions have been made here recently. Here's our attempt to handle plagiarism and several other matters. These were all areas that were being covered in bits and pieces in several other courses This Spring we introduced a new required course for all majors. We called it Psychology

Re: history and systems list

Miguel, The one I subscribe to, and the best one for me, is Cheiron, the Society for the History of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Send message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In Message space: "SUBSCRIBE CHEIRON" without the quotes. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Psycholog

sports study (fwd)

This is an interesting bit of research.   After a two-year long study, The National Science Foundation announced the  following results on Corporate America's recreational preferences.    1. The sport of choice for unemployed or    incarcerated people is BASKETBALL.  2. The sport of choi

Re: INFO NEEDED

On Tue, 11 May 1999, DAP Louw - Psychology wrote: > > Tipsters > I would like to know what the situation in other countries (especially the US) is > concerning the following: > What percentage of colleagues in your Department/Departments that you know > of > > * also studied in the same

Article Summary Handout

Folks, Some time ago (December-January?) someone, I think from Valdosta State ( but not Deb), posted a handout which contained guidelines for beginning students doing their first written summary of a psychology journal article. Whoever you are you did a good thing. Please email me off-list. Th

Excuse whole list

Please forgive, but Pat Cabe please email me off list. I've lost your email address. Folks, I haven't been lurking or mad for the past two months. I've been recuperating from surgery. Got about three-four months to go. Hope to be ready to go again by Fall. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Ch

Re: EMDR & ethics

Linda, Thanks for your thoughtful response. I certainly have no desire to go to war with a CMHC. That, and it does sound to me as if this guy is pressuring her to let him do EMDR. That, I think, is quite different from a physician saying, "take these herbs." You go home and either do or don't tak

EMDR & Ethics

Folks, I'm in a quandry. Several weeks ago Jim Guinee was kind enough to forward to us a nice long list of quackeries from Quackwatch. One of them was EMDR. Without really thinking too much about it, I forwarded Jim's post to a class of mine. Now it turns out that a student has a therapist in

A & E Biography

Should have passed this on last week. A & E is doing -- as part of their biography series all this week -- shows on people who "give" advice. They've already done Dr. Laura of recent list discussion, and Dr. Ruth. I've never heard of the guy for tonight, but "Joycie" is on the schedule for eith

Dramatic favorable responses of children with learning disabilities... (fwd)

First of two slightly more recent articles by Levinson on same topic in same journal. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Psychology 701.252.3467 X 2604 Jamestown College 6019 College Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jamestown, ND 58405 -- Forwarded me

The diagnostic value of cerebellar-vestibular tests in detecting le... (fwd)

Jeff, This second one, ditto, but didn't come with abstract, sorry. Al Al L. Cone, Ph.D. Professor & Chair Department of Psychology 701.252.3467 X 2604 Jamestown College 6019 College Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jamestown, ND 58405 -- Forwarded message -- D

Re: GRE - the writing test

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Deborah Briihl wrote: > In class today, I was talking about the writing portion of the GRE that is > to start Fall 99. Does anyone know how the graduate schools will be using > this information? DEB: I'D BE WILLING TO BET MOST OF THEM DON'T. WITHIN THE LAST TWO YE

Re: Accusations and Joyce Brothers

Folks, Couple of points. 1. APA used to (may still) publish the names of people involved in ethics issues and removed from membership. I'm not volunteering to look it up, but it should be public record. 2. I've lost (thrown away?) my earliest APA Directory and I can't

Re: Sensory registers and non-foveal vision

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In regard to the discussion of Sperling's study, does anyone know what > ever became of him? The study is such a classic in cognitive psychology, > but I have never seen his name mentioned anywhere else. (Of course, this > could be due to the fact

RE: library usage feedback?

Susan, You don't say where you are, what level these student are, and what kind of library facilities you have, so it is difficult to provide you with a useful answer, but here are a few hints. Here, where there is an online computer in every dorm room, and labs scattered all around, I may be gett

RE: Thanks/Research proposals

Nancy, That's fine, but since you started out with an ethics question, isn't the logical next step to translate that proposal into an IRB format? Our folks in Experimental, once they have done their individual project research proposal transform it into IRB format and have a "mock" IRB meeting wit

Freudian Limericks

Folks, Neither panic nor get your hopes up. I shan't quote any of them, but the latest issue of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, has an article by Sachi Sri Kantha entitled, Sexual humor on Freud as expresses in limericks. The author says that he has scanned 6000 limericks from six

RE: perception question

Folks, Forgive me for being silly, but even it I owned an electric toothbrush, I can't imagine brushing my teeth in front of, or anywhere else near, the TV. Al Al L. Cone Jamestown College <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> North Dakota 701.252.3467 X 2604 http://www.jc.edu/users/faculty/cone -Ori

RE: Student perceptions of academic performance

I recall that 5-6 years ago (I'm not going to track it down) there was an article in Psyc Record by investigators in Israel in which they had students rate their confidence in each response on multiple choice major tests. I seem to recall that some students were consistently over confident. Al

FW: exams

Sorry, folks, my address book for TIPs seems to be messed up. Al -Original Message- From: Al Cone Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 4:52 AM To: 'TIPS' Subject: FW: exams -Original Message----- From: Al Cone Sent: Thursday, November 04, 1999 4:46 AM To: 'Mol