[tips] Help with experimental design

2010-12-01 Thread michael sylvester
There are many suggestions re activities to improve cognitive function during aging,but the one that struck with me is the activity of jogging backwards.It is hypothesized that jogging backwards will force the brain to make new connections and thus improve cognitive flexibility.I would like to t

[tips] Spanking and sado-masochism etiology

2010-12-01 Thread michael sylvester
Has anyone heard of the idea that spanking could generate S-M sexual practice? Proponents of this idea reason that some S-M could have originated in a situation where the spanking elicited a penile erection - hence establishing an association between pain and sexual excitement. Michael "omnice

[tips] TIPSTER OF THE WEEK

2010-12-01 Thread michael sylvester
ROBIN MUSSELMAN 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=6894 or send a blank email to leave

re: [tips] something new?

2010-12-01 Thread Mike Palij
On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:20:14 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: >Have any of you heard of either the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® >(HBDI®) or Whole Brain® Thinking? This sounds like more megabuck psychobabble >that is bleeding businesses and individuals without any evidence to back it >up. >Y

[tips] something new?

2010-12-01 Thread Annette Taylor
Have any of you heard of either the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument® (HBDI®) or Whole Brain® Thinking? This sounds like more megabuck psychobabble that is bleeding businesses and individuals without any evidence to back it up. You can google if you haven't heard about it but I just can't fin

RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Jim et al.: I would presume that in cultures in which spanking is rarer, there are stronger societal prohibitions/discouragements against spanking. Hence, in cases in which parental spanking "breaks through" (loose causal language, here, I realize) these societal norms, parents probably possess

RE: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Annette Taylor
And I wonder how many studies look at nonphysical punishment such as yelling, screaming and calling your children stupid, etc.. i.e., verbal abuse? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandie

RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Clark
Hi Scott's observation about lesser negative impact of spanking in cultures where it is more common (blacks, Kenya, India) than in cultures where it is less common (e.g., whites, China, Thailand) is interesting, but perhaps not the only consequence of spanking that might be important. Might cu

RE: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Allen: I'm most certainly not an expert in this literature (and I suspect that some TIPS members know it much better than I do), but yes, at least some of these studies do distinguish mild spanking from severe punishment. For example, Lynch et al. (2006, Journal of Family Psychology) differenti

RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Allen Esterson
Unlike Stephen and Scott, I haven't investigated the literature on the effects of the spanking of children. So there are questions the answers to which I am ignorant – e.g., do the relevant studies include in the definition of "spanking" the merest slap across the legs of a recalcitrant infant

RE:[tips] RE:Being Objective

2010-12-01 Thread Allen Esterson
Rick Froman wrote: >I also enjoyed the statement by blogger Dooglas Carl that >“continuing to use the term ‘science’ in the association's >mission statement had become a concern because it maintained >"the colonizing, privileging, superior positionality of anthropology >that continues to plague the

Re:[tips] Autism miracle or hoax?

2010-12-01 Thread Allen Esterson
On the Carly Fleischmann autism story, Stephen Black writes: >But it seems churlish to question her accomplishment and >no one appears to be doing it. From a Google search I'd say that's a slight overstatement, but forgivable given the overwhelmingly accepting response. :-) Some posters on the