Re:[tips] Legal Fight Delays Paper on Psychopathy Scale 3 Years

2010-06-13 Thread Mike Wiliams
I plan to write an opinion review criticizing Psych Corp and Pearson for arbitrarily changing the Wechsler Scales and creating new editions just to churn the scales and squeeze more money out of us, in similar fashion that Pearson is churning up textbook editions to squeeze more money out of ou

Re: [tips] Pleasure centers of brain

2010-06-13 Thread David Wheeler, Ph.D.
See: http://cogprints.org/1390/ Mostly people are talking about the various parts of the mesolimbic system: Dopamine neurons in Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) send axons via the Medial Forebrain Bundle (MFB) to the Nucleus Accumbens where they serve to reinforce unexpected pleasurable stimuli.

Re: [tips] Singularity University: The Model Of Higher Education For The Future?

2010-06-13 Thread Christopher D. Green
When I read it I could only think of Marvin Minsky's comment that we'd be lucky if our robots decided to even keep us around 25 years hence. That was about 40 years ago. Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164

Re: [tips] Singularity University: The Model Of Higher Education For The Future?

2010-06-13 Thread Paul Brandon
"If you're so rich why aren't you smart?" On Jun 13, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Mike Palij wrote: > Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated into the singularity. > See the NY Times article and those who think that being merely > human is so 20th century: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/busine

[tips] Singularity University: The Model Of Higher Education For The Future?

2010-06-13 Thread Mike Palij
Resistance is futile. You WILL be assimilated into the singularity. See the NY Times article and those who think that being merely human is so 20th century: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/business/13sing.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=all I don't know which is scarier: that a number of wealthy an

Re: [tips] Pleasure centers of brain

2010-06-13 Thread David Hogberg
There at least were *lots* of them. (assuming pleasure in that rats would work to turn it on and not work to turn off electrical stimulation to these areas). If I thought hard, I could give you coordinates. D On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:46 PM, michael sylvester wrote: > > > Can someone elaborate

RE: [tips] Legal Fight Delays Paper on Psychopathy Scale 3 Years - NYTimes.com

2010-06-13 Thread Annette Taylor
There seem to be many links towards the end of this website that address many of the issues. http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/06/paper-on-psychopaths-delayed-by-.html Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Dieg

[tips] Pleasure centers of brain

2010-06-13 Thread michael sylvester
Can someone elaborate with some degree of specificity the pleasure centers of the brain? I have heard of the septum being the key,but I am also aware of something called the nucleus accunbens and some others. Confused in Daytona while living on sponge cake and watching the sun bake. Michael "om

RE: [tips] Legal Fight Delays Paper on Psychopathy Scale 3 Years - NYTimes.com

2010-06-13 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Hi Jim et al.: I'm not an attorney (thank goodness for that), but it seems to me that there are at three separate issues here: (1) is the Skeem and Cooke article defamatory - which was the basis for Hare's lawsuit (and I've seen the original documents, which leave no doubt in this regard); (

[tips] Warning to Chris Green !

2010-06-13 Thread michael sylvester
DON't MESS WITH TEXAS ! On behalf of the Texas school board Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester.PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- 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