Re: Skepticism, Religion: A Tangent

ot. Amazon lists a couple of titles by that name, though of more recent vintage; but I am certain that I read a book with that title way back in 1969 or 1970. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: William James and dope

than a few sites that quote the verse without any citation). John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: External review of animal projects: the summary

, or more years down the line. BTW, much the same could probably be said about the majority of undergraduate research projects that use human participants. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

and now the (w)hole story...

. This should make for some interesting discussion in bio psych this afternoon... John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ted's not-so-new spam

of. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspected cheating/double-dipping

on 12/9/99 10:21 AM, Renner, Michael at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I disagree with John Serafin concerning how far the student's right to privacy extends. It is appropriate for university officers -- which we are, in this context -- to discuss a student and her or his performance. What

Re: Suspected cheating/double-dipping

fears about violating confidentiality. Again, I'm not advocating letting students get away with double-dipping, I'm just advising caution on how we deal with it. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Suspected cheating/double-dipping

ng is verboten. Does your school have a stated policy? If not, this might be a good time to raise the issue. (Well, maybe not right now--but maybe after finals are over.) ------ John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Hebb and the Milners

and the Hebbian synapse, it seems like Hebb might also be given more credit than he typically receives for stimulating the cognitive psych movement (e.g., his 1960 paper in American Psychologist, "The second American Revolution"). John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Sai

Re: Skinner, Hebb...and the Brelands

y have worked together at some time (in graduate school?), but I don't remember the details. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hebb and the CNS (conceptual nervous system)

the phrase back to 1938 for the simple reason that I don't even have a copy of Behavior of Organisms. The page # in the source was even given in that 1950 paper. We're not being very good behaviorists these days, are we? John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser

Re: Perspective: Is Science Religious?

Anyone else seeing any impact from this? John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on after-image after red

As long as we're talking about these negative afterimages, I have another question. When you create the afterimage, it fades pretty quickly. Why does it regenerate when you blink your eyes? John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd

Re: How do I get those @#$% complementary after-images?

cause I do this with overhead transparencies, rather than PowerPoint). John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the failure to replicate

of this nature, if for no other reason than to stimulate addtional studies on the issue. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blueberry Boy

peeking in on this thread. This might be just what he's looking for. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Blueberry Boy Date: Wed, Oct

Re: TIPS Awards

okingly suggests that he would like to spank Michael. Am I missing something here? Why is it that only some members of the list need to be concerned about being sensitive? John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: TIPS Awards

-- From: "Rick Adams" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "John Serafin" [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: TIPS Awards Date: Mon, Oct 18, 1999, 7:59 PM (snip) Am I missing something here? Why is it that only some members of the list need to be concerned about bei

Re: Applied Statistics/and math dept

s to sound pretty weak. Of course, if this really is just a turf war, then none of these arguments will carry any weight with the math people. But maybe others will listen. Good luck, John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15

position announcement--clinical psych

until the position is filled. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: great question

e thalamus), but the full reference to the article is given: http://www.drkoop.com/news/stories/september/stroke.html John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shoe size and negative r

s actually negative, it has the added advantage of leading to discussion of the correlation/causation issue. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for some help!

day. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: help re: tenure

as easily could be email...but my experience matches Linda's. RT committees tend to take signed, hard-copy letters more seriously than emails. John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From

Re: Transparencies for dyslexia

their effectiveness (or for the syndrome that Irlen hypothesized). If anyone is aware of any more recent work on the topic, I'd be interested in knowing if that situation has changed. John ------ John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent College 300 Fraser Purchase Rd. Latrobe, PA 15650 [EMAIL PR

Re: Theory query

-- From: "Petersik, Tim" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Theory query Date: Fri, Apr 16, 1999, 10:55 AM Good Colleagues: Can anyone recommend a good, relatively short, article or chapter that attempts to explain Theory? Ideally, this article

Re: Little Albert

) American psychology is: The Return of the Repressed: Psychology's Problematic Relations with Psychoanalysis, 1909-1960, by Gail Hornstein (American Psychologist, 1992). This article is reprinted in one of the readings books for history of psych (I think Benjamin's). John -- John Serafin

Re: take away suggestion/placebo and what does that leave?

ion" presumably impacts on effective treatments, as well as phony ones. Wouldn't they prefer to receive a treatment that has both placebo and "real" effects, as opposed to a treatment that has only placebo effects? John -- John Serafin Professor of Psychology Saint Vincent

Prenatal androgens (was: inner ear question)

In addition to the effects of androgens on the inner ear, and effects on the hypothalamus that I am aware of, are there other reasonably well-documented effects of prenatal androgens on biology (besides on the reproductive system itself, of course)? John -- John Serafin Professor