Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

Yes I think textbook costs for psychology are ridiculous. I suppose the publishers are cashing in on the popularity of psychology It must be all those chapter technologies for enhanced learning. Only for visual learners though :-) It might be helpful if people posted specifically which textbooks c

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

Education does not come cheap neither do prof salaries. Michael - Original Message - From: "Paul C Bernhardt" To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:23 AM Subject: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180! Excuse this rant. I know it isn't news, bu

[tips] Student's question via twitter

Do you have an extra terxtbook I could use? 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=4348 or send a blank

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

After writing my rant I did a little checking on prices of texts in other fields and without any systematic data gathering, my impression was that Psychology students are getting hammered by higher prices than others. Are there studies to show this? What you are suggesting about sharing powerpo

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

Hi Paul- I understand where you're coming from. I lost it a few years ago when the research methods text I had been using jumped in price to $150.00.  Many of my students quickly realized that the cost of photocopying the text was only a small fraction of the purchase price so they quickly set

RE:[tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

I have talked about this in the past so most tipsters know where I stand on this. As a mom of college students (I just graduated the last one! Yeah!) I am hyperaware of textbook costs and nowhere is it more rampant than in business classes. My accounting major son had to pay nearly $400 for a ta

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

I just sent out the emails to my students in the relevant classes. By allowing them to purchase the previous editions of these books, they can save $90 in one class and $100 in the other class, if they choose. The savings I indicate are based on the best price I could find (not exhaustively res

Re: [tips] Warning: Rant: $180!!!!!

Thanks for the plug Annette. I just wanted to add that the book was revised and re-released in April 2010, now called "EZ Psychology" and I REALLY took care to revise the writing, which in the first edition, at second glance, was pretty dreadful. Now the information is just as good, more up to

[tips] Dukenfield's Law & Campbell's Law #2

Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in "Dukenfield's Law & Campbell's Law #2" [Hake (2010)]. ** ABSTRACT: An earlier post "Dukenfield's Law & Campbell's Law" [Hake (2010)] initiated a 31-post thread on EvalTalk which may be accessed at

[tips] Emotional Reasoning, Snap Judgments, and Going Viral

Howard Kurtz, in his Washington Post article for Aug 23, 2010, reviews several recent events in the popular media and how the public has responded to them. It might be of some benefit to analyze the psychological components of these events, as least with respect to public response, as an aid to cr