Re: [tips] "Touch-bonded teams" and other evidence on touching

2010-03-02 Thread michael sylvester
- Original Message - From: Beth Benoit To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 9:01 PM Subject: [tips] "Touch-bonded teams" and other evidence on touching An interesting article in last week's New York Times (I get it by mail, so

[tips] Global warning existential phobia

2010-03-02 Thread michael sylvester
Authorities are reporting the suicide pack of a mother,husband,and brother.And a child was left with a bullet in the chest.The dead adults were terrified by the thought of global warming.This happened in Argentina. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently s

Re: [tips] DSM V

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher D. Green
Two interesting notes here. First, Ed Shorter isn't just a psychiatrist but one of the most influential historians of psychiatry around. His historiographic commitments are rather, uh, conventional, but he knows as much as anyone about nearly everything. Second, this article is a sample of the "new

Re: [tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need "audients"

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher D. Green
It would be great to meet you in person Michael. Best, Chris === Michael wrote: > Sounds interesting Chris. I can make it. I plan to be at the conference > with iphone, camera and microphone in hand to capture the event. Looking > forward to meeting other TIPSters there too. Anyone els

[tips] Common Sense: The 4th Date Test

2010-03-02 Thread Mike Palij
As we all know, students get most of their useful daily life info from outside of their college classes and from a variety of sources. For dudes it might be sources like Maxim, FHM and other sources depending upon where he falls in the multidimensional jock/geek/lamer/loser dude space. Females

[tips] "Touch-bonded teams" and other evidence on touching

2010-03-02 Thread Beth Benoit
An interesting article in last week's New York Times (I get it by mail, so they occasionally arrive very late) about other types of nonverbal communication than just facial expressions and folded arms: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/23/health/23mind.html This kind of article - particularly with t

[tips] Human pheronomes do exist

2010-03-02 Thread michael sylvester
Human pheronomes do exist. Co-ed in dormitories have been known to go through synchronized menstrual periods.And as the cross-cultural dude on Tips,there are African tribes where males with very strong body odor are viewed as sexualy attractive. In the kuma-sutra practices the smell of the gland

[tips] Tipsville racism of neglect

2010-03-02 Thread michael sylvester
It was a bit disappointing that not one tipster presentd any ideas as to how he or she would demonstrate and engage in some discussion as to the afrocentric perspective and noted black contributions to psychology especially during Black History Month. This only confirms that psychology has been h

Re: [tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need "audients"

2010-03-02 Thread Paul C Bernhardt
I'll be there, presenting late on Saturday. Paul Bernhardt Sent from my iPhone On Mar 2, 2010, at 2:45 PM, "Michael" wrote: Sounds interesting Chris. I can make it. I plan to be at the conference with iphone, camera and microphone in hand to capture the event. Looking forward to meeti

Re: [tips] Assessment Question (ahhhhhhhhhhhh :-)! !))

2010-03-02 Thread taylor
This is a good discussion for us to have on tips--the whole idea of teaching for conceptual coherence. I've been working on changing misconceptions and have read the education literature on conceptual development and more importantly on conceptual change extensively. What I have come to conclu

[tips] DSM V

2010-03-02 Thread Horton, Joseph J.
The Wall Street Journal offered an interesting perspective on DSM V from the perspective of a psychiatrist. http://tinyurl.com/yh5ah47 Two paragraphs from the column: To flip through the latest draft of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, in the works

RE: [tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need "audients"

2010-03-02 Thread Horton, Joseph J.
That is the same time as Miguel's talk. What poor planning to have two prominent TIPSters presenting at the same time. J Joe Joseph J. Horton, Ph. D. Box 3077 Grove City College Grove City, PA 16127 724-458-2004 jjhor...@gcc.edu In God we trust, all others must bring data. From

Re: [tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need "audients"

2010-03-02 Thread Michael
Sounds interesting Chris. I can make it. I plan to be at the conference with iphone, camera and microphone in hand to capture the event. Looking forward to meeting other TIPSters there too. Anyone else coming? Michael > I hope that no one will object to my "promoting" my own upcoming EPA tal

[tips] Microsoft: Don't press F1 key in Windows XP

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher D. Green
The John Hodgman types out there might want to read this warning about XP, IE, and F1 keys. :-) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9164038/Microsoft_Don_t_press_F1_key_in_Windows_XP Chris (from his Mac) -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Can

Re: [tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need "audients"

2010-03-02 Thread Christopher D. Green
I hope that no one will object to my "promoting" my own upcoming EPA talk. "140 Years of Psychology Trying to Capitalize on Evolutionary Theory" Sat, March 6. 9:00-10:20 am, Gleason Rm. Abstract: It is often argued that evolutionary theory was effectively banished from psychological thought duri

[tips] Assessment Question (ahhhhhhhhhhhh :-)! !))

2010-03-02 Thread Richard Hake
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[tips] position announcement

2010-03-02 Thread Steven Specht
Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Psychology at Utica College to begin in the fall of 2010. Utica College, located at the foothills of the Adirondacks, is a small comprehensive liberal arts school that emphasizes teaching and rewards research. Ours is an undergraduate department

[tips] Eastern Psychological Association- Need presenters

2010-03-02 Thread albramante
Hello Colleagues I had prepared a session for the EPA meeting that will be taking place March 4-7 in Brooklyn NY, however my departmental colleagues just backed out on me last minute. My session descriptions is: "CHAIR: ALBERT C. BRAMANTE (UNION COUNTY COLLEGE) GIVING STUDENTS AN ACTIVE

RE: [tips] Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

2010-03-02 Thread Shearon, Tim
Paul I think Mike was being a bit more subtle than that- Perhaps his point was that administrators CAN take our jobs away. I suspect one is less likely to be sanctioned some places for criticizing the President or Prime Minister than, say one's own institution or its policies. Tim __

Re: [tips] Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Brandon
Mike-- Suggest that you read the history of the 1950's: People did have their livelihoods taken away, in the name of 'anti-communism'! It CAN happen here. On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:50 PM, Michael Smith wrote: Perhaps we should be worried about joining the 'facebook group for tired teachers' (I'm s

Re: [tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread taylor
Maybe perpendicular universes? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu Original message >Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:37:01 -0500 >From: Ken Steele >Subject: Re: [tips]

Re: [tips] Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Bernhardt
Reading the linked newspaper article, the professor had not 'friended' any students (that's my Facebook policy, too). Depending on how your account is set up, I think you can theoretically make everything you put on Facebook completely public, though the defaults are fairly private (only frien

Re: [tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread Ken Steele
An interesting case of parallel universes. Cutler's PhD is from Penn and she was affiliated with the Hospital of the U of Penn at one point. Richard Doty, the author of the critical article, is the head of the Smell & Taste Center at the Hospital of the U of P. http://www.med.upenn.edu/st

Re: [tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread William Scott
I think the tongue-in-cheek icon is -) You can buy a little bottle of pheremone from her for $100 or so. I saw her ad last Sunday in Parade Magazine. >>> Rick Froman 03/02/10 8:43 AM >>> And what of the breakthrough research of Dr. Winnifred Cutler in 1986? To get the uninformed up to speed:

Re: [tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread Rick Froman
And what of the breakthrough research of Dr. Winnifred Cutler in 1986? To get the uninformed up to speed: In 1986, her co-discovery of human pheromones received major news coverage in Time (12/1/86), Newsweek (1/12/87) and a front page story in the Washington Post newspaper, (11/18/86) because

RE: [tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
I notice that the article ignores the research showing that females prefer the scent of symmetrical males, or the new research showing that males prefer the scent of menstruating females. Although neither show direct evidence for pheremones, they do provide data relevant to the debate. And havin

[tips] Do human pheromones exist?

2010-03-02 Thread roig-reardon
Is the notion of human pheromones another myth slain by lack of data? http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527491.100-the-pheromone-myth-sniffing-out-the-truth.html?page=1 Miguel --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.

Re: [tips] Prof Buckland wins one for the Gipper

2010-03-02 Thread Allen Esterson
I see that getting the "smiley" wrong (twice) in my last message rather spoils the effect of using them. :-) Allen E. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=99

Re: [tips] Prof Buckland wins one for the Gipper

2010-03-02 Thread Allen Esterson
On 1 February 2010 Stephen Black wrote: >And while we're on the subject of winning, allow me >to slip in this modest observation on the recently-concluded >Winter Olympics. Canada, with one-tenth the population of the >USA and one-quarter the population of Russia, managed to >win more gold medals t