RE: More on academic astrology

The biography on his web site mentions "his native Canada". Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Michael Sylvester [mail

RE: Gallup/creationism

I nominate Michael to design the first non-Eurocentric faith-based research methods course. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message---

RE: Policy to forward TIPS posts?

I will reinforce both remarks and note that I have had a member of TIPS deny my request to use a post. It would be wise to ask. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 757.825.3500 Fax: 75

RE:

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RE: disk personality test?

I think it might refer to the DISC which, as I recall, is a short version of a type indicator. It gives Myers-Briggs-like descriptors. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 757.825.3500

RE: Recounts and Statistics

My admittedly limited understanding of this process is that some of the older technology like punch cards are unreliable but not predictable. In other words, if you do a recount using the same set of ballots and the same machine to count them, you will likely get a different count but it is not n

No Subject

I am interested in reviewing and doing research on the effectiveness of e-learning in college courses. Has anyone done research on this? Is there a good source for this kind of literature? I have our library doing a literature search, but I think there may be a lot of things that are not publis

RE: Personality test for counselors

This thread is really starting to scare me. First, as Bob Hill points out, how reliable are any of these measures at predicting any kind of meaningful behavior? How much of the variance can they account for in such a complex task as being a good counselor or clinician? Second, it seems that you a

RE: Student Question: Learned helplessness

As I recall, he had to drag dogs to the other side with the barrier completely down. Other attempts, such as calling them and putting Hebrew National franks on the safe side did not work. It took a number of times for some of the dogs. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institu

Sabbatical Leave Policies

Which of these are acceptable sabbatical arrangements at your college? 1 year at half salary. 1 semester at full salary. either of the above 1 year at full salary other: Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampt

RE: efficacy studies

I recommend looking at Seligman,M.E.P. The effectiveness of psychotherapy: The Consumer Reports study. American Psychologist, 50, 965-974. I found it to be a very thought-provoking article; it actually blunted some of my cynicism. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institution

RE: Missour-e vs. Missour-ah

When Michael S and I attended It was Missourah to rhyme with the rah! rah! cheers. Given the way the football team has done since, the current pronunciation is miz-er-ee. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Ham

RE: Booting bouton

That must be fairly common. We had the same thing. It would have been in Missouri in the early to mid-70s. I just looked it up. The short a is a second pronunciation, but you should still pronounce the t. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nel

RE: d) two of the above

Which two are correct? Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Michael Sylvester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, O

RE: Millennium Schizophrenic symptoms

Didn't we have a post last year about a minister who was casting the devil out of computers? He had taken over the computer's memory and intelligence, sending unwitting people to porno chat rooms, etc. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Co

RE: Clinical vs statistical significance

What is wrong with "confidence level"? If we can reject the null hypothesis at the .05 level, we are 95% confident that a real difference exists. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Community College PO Box 9407 Hampton, VA 23670 Phone: 75

RE: What's in a name? The case of Gay

Not only that. He asked patrons in another bar where he could find a gay bar because he was going to shoot a gay. They gave him directions and then called the police. Not quite Kitty Genovese, but when details come out, it could be an interesting case study. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology

RE: N versus N-1 [Was: Another Standard Deviation question]

Why is 1 the magic number? I see how it makes more radical corrections for smaller sample sizes. But was it chosen for a theoretical or practical considerations. Michael S: Don't even think about referring me to Three Dog Night. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutiona

RE: Bachelors - Masters - MBA - PhD

Now that's what we mean by customer service in education: 24/7 by 365. Advisors must be really well trained to determine the difference between those with life credits suitable to a Masters ABD and a Ph.D. I guess they must have formulae for determining when it indeed has been "piled higher and

RE: Zajonc subliminal experiment

You are correct about the Turkish words being used for social facilitation research. He also used them in exposure and attraction research. I know they were used in supraliminal demonstrations of exposure leading to attraction. I also know that Zajonc and his colleagues demonstrated the exposure

RE: info: subliminal

My recollection is that Zajonc was extending the "mere exposure" effect on attraction by demonstrating that the exposure could be so minimal as to escape notice. I believe he was most interested in demonstrating the robustness of the relationship between exposure and attraction rather than the pe

RE: info: subliminal

Research by Zajonc showed that being exposed to nonsense stimuli below threshold increased S's liking for them. The more often someone was subliminally exposed to the stimulus the more they liked it (e.g., a Turkish word flashed 16 times would later be rated higher than one flashed 2 times). Mic

RE: Visually impaired student in a stats course

A faculty member at our college several years ago wrote some software to turn a computer into a talking calculator for a blind student in his stats class. I am trying to track it down now. More relevant, though, is that his work was supported by IBM and they had a huge library(?) of resources to

RE: Real Life Applications

There is a person at the University Of Missouri (Columbia campus) who teaches a class designed around this idea. I don't have more info. It was in an alumni mag. I believe he was in math, not psych. Michael B. Quanty, Ph.D. Psychology Professor Senior Institutional Researcher Thomas Nelson Com

RE: Applied Survivor Activity

I think you and Louis should team teach a class (good cop, bad cop). We could start pools on which students and teachers survive. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 11:21 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Applied Survivor A

RE: (Fwd) URL:> ethics complaints & APA resignation

If this truly is just an old story, I would be very interested in how it turned out. This has made me less confident than I was at the beginning of the day to talk about constructed memories of abuse. Does anyone know how things turned out? -Original Message- From: Rick Stevens [mailto:

RE: Liars Anonymous

There is but htey never meet where or when they say they will! SorryToo many papers to grade. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message-

RE: Social Psychology Surprizes

When I teach Social Psychology, I use David Myers' text. The supplemental material includes a true/false quiz on topics covered in the course. I make students complete it the first class period. Most get 50% or less and it leads to lively discussion. The exercise works equally well when I use

RE: terminal drop hypothesis

Maybe you should approach this millenium with a little more optimism and start with just the 2. Who knows? Wasn't that Fountain of Youth supposed to be somewhere in your area? Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virgi

RE: Nosing out suspects

Last night on the news, one of the networks (Dan Rather, I think) did a piece on airport security in which they found dogs to be 100% accurate in sniffing out guns in baggage (I believe; since I was only patially attending, I am not necessarily a reliable eyewitness to this). They were far super

RE: Attitude Scales

Freidrich in the 1996 Teaching of Psychology, Volume 23, 6-13 has a scale. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Susan

RE: Calculating sample size in a random sample

For a .05 level of confidence and precision of +/-5%, he would need 286. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Marie Helweg-Larsen

RE: Handing out A's like candy

Based on research that we have done, I would be surprised if that is the case. For those who are interested in this topic and want to look at some data, you can start at our web site: http://www.cnu.edu/cbmts . Our research basically shows that, in the vast majority of cases, students who comple

RE: Styles of Loving

In the early Christian church, it was the name for the love feast accompanied by the Eucharistic celebration. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Me

RE: Y2K opportunities for teaching & research

I have been formulating a small hypothesis in this regard. I have been impressed by the relative lack of apocalyptic cults that have surfaced. My hypothesis is that the presence of the "real" Y2K threat has dampened the enthusiasm for the more Nostradamus-type of predictions. My problem is I do

RE: PSYCHOLOGY2K

Michael Sylvester will start playing Mozart at all of his DJ gigs, raising the average IQ level of south Florida by ten points and reducing bar fights by 40 percent. His 15 minutes will end abruptly when an anonymous TIPSter leaks a story to the media about this being part of a great European con

Adult Development

Can anyone point me to a list that would compare the physical capabilities of adults at various ages that I could use in an Intro class? Thanks in advance. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757

RE: Spanking

Unfortunately, I do not think your argument holds weight either. If we entertain the possibility that some of the spanking behavior could be elicited by children who have not responded to other forms of treatment, then if it is only effective in some instances, the outcomes of the spanked group c

FW: Long Distance E-mail Charges - Please Read and Complain!

The message below is from the Head Tech Dweeb at our school. You may want to hold off on the e-mail barrage. Don't give them any ideas. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 75

Triplets

Has there ever been a case of identical triplets (i.e., a zygote splitting into three rather than just two)? Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807

RE: Administrivia: Consult TIPS Website for insrructions

Just imagine what some of our Freudian colleagues may have read into insurrections. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Paul Bran

RE: Karen Horney/Paul Smith

Maybe some of you should model the mature behavior you would like to see in Michael. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Paul Bra

Fair Use

If you have supplemental material from a text that you assigned in one class, are you allowed to use it in a class with a different text? What if you are no longer using the text? Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, V

RE: student's question

In most cases I think people are referring to reactance when they use the phrase reverse psychology. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message

RE: Colleague with bad breath

Maybe your colleague is a member of TIPS and your problem is solved. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message- From: Michael Sylvester [mailt

RE: The Great Escape: not a speck of teaching

One that has gotten a good deal of air time locally is You can't argue with a hurricane by Jimmy Buffet Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Original Message-

RE: Cool facts about psychology

The APS web site has a today in psychology feature where I have students look up what happened on their birthday. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807 -Origina

RE: a little question

The answer as you will see twice is that when one replies on Outlook you have a "reply" icon that will bring only the sender's name or a "reply to all" icon that sends the response to you as the sender and the list as a recipient of your original message. To get the message to the list only, you

TIPS for students

Is anyone aware of a listserve or other internet resource that connects students in psychology? I am interested in giving my students access to another source of potential support and a place to ask questions in a less threatening environment. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Di

RE: state dependent learning

Fortunately the squirrel's reflexes or dominant response or dumb luck were more up to the task than my braking. It was unscathed. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 7

RE: State-dependent learning

I dont't think pedal braking is my dominant response. I've been using hand brakes the majority of my life. That is why I was so surprised by my panic reaction. I've made many more total stops via hand brake: hence it should have higher habit strength and the arousal should have activated it. I

State-dependent learning

Since college in the late 60s I have ridden bikes with hand brakes. Yet today when I was riding on a nature trail near the college, with my hand resting on the brake I was startled by a squirrel and immediately tried to brake with the pedal. Earlier on the same ride i had slowed successfully for

RE: List behavior

When I teach both intro and social one of my main goals is to make students aware of the cognitive biases that affect the way all of us view the world and interpret events, behavior, etc. I usually cite a study by Vallone, Ross, & Lepper (1985) showing how perception of bias in network news repor

RE: beer and brest feeding?

Are people assuming that the alcohol ends up in the mother's milk? I'm certainly not an expert on this topic, but it would seem to me that the alcohol would be broken down before it would get to the baby. Are we talking vampires here? Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director T

RE: Rats/aggression/crowding- reference

I believe the research was by Calhoun. Behavioral Sink Hope this helps. I would be interested in the original reference. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia 23670 Voice: 757.825.3500 Fax: 757.825.3807

RE: STM/phone numbers

I do an exercise using the Seven Dwarfs (no pc police, please) suggested by Miserandino that is a great introduction to the whole topic of memory. See Teaching of Psychology 1991 I believe. I don't have exact reference. Students really liked it. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project

RE: Milgram effect as Orne effect?

I would suggest a look at the video that Milgram made. To the extent that these S's are representative, the Orne effect would be a hard sell. I think he also addresses the question of skepticism in the video. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community Col

RE: Subject Pool

It seems to me that participation is a valuable learning tool. Students get first-hand experience with scientific procedures. I also find when I teach Social that students from programs that do not have participation requirements (e.g., community colleges) are more skeptical that anyone would ag

RE: Social Psych in Film course

The Milagro Beanfield War provides an excellent example of escalation of conflict, the blacktop illusion, and negotiation strategies while also showing cultural differences. Michael Quanty Psychology Professor CBMTS Project Director Thomas Nelson Community College P.O. Box 9407 Hampton, Virginia