[tips] When Faces Aren't Recognized

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Palij
Over on the Science Daily website, there's a summary of some research that looks at facial recognition of a person in pictures and finds that some people perceive different pictures of the same person as representing two different people: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120709092602.ht

[tips] I Guess There's Some Things You Can't Pray Away

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Palij
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International, apparently has come to the conclusion that one can't pray away the gay. There are a couple of sources on this so I'll begin with the usual suspect: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/us/a-leaders-renunciation-of-ex-gay-tenets-causes-a-schism.html?_

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Beth Benoit
Good for you, Michael! You always put in a lot of effort for psychology teaching, so I'm thrilled for you that you'll get some recognition. HOpe it was fun! Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Britt
It was definitely fun to do the filming. They used a dark room for the filming in order to maintain the "mystery/drama", but the content is all good. I checked it myself. When we talked about neuron communication for the "Awakenings" episode it was their idea to use a set of dominoes and a ru

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Jonathan Mueller
Very cool. === Jon Mueller Professor of Psychology North Central College 30 N. Brainard St. Naperville, IL 60540 voice: (630)-637-5329 fax: (630)-637-5121 jfmuel...@noctrl.edu http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu >>> Michael Britt 7/9/2012 8:43 AM >>> I thought I'd

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Ken Steele
Michael: Congratulations. I will check out the shows. Ken --- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. steel...@appstate.edu Professor Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boon

Re: [tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Gerald Peterson
Cool! Congrats Michael. I will check it out. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Jul 9, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > > I thought I'd let everyone know that I will be appearing on several episodes > of the television show "Dark Matters". Yes, the show includes dramatiz

[tips] Fighting GNATS: computer game to treat adolescent depression

2012-07-09 Thread William Scott
GNATS are "gloomy negative autonomous thoughts", of course. Merry, et al. article at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330131/ Synopsis from POEMs research summaries: ... investigators enrolled 187 adolescents presenting to youth clinics, general practices, and school-based counselin

[tips] Dark Matters

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Britt
I thought I'd let everyone know that I will be appearing on several episodes of the television show "Dark Matters". Yes, the show includes dramatizations of famous experiments and studies in the history of many sciences, but I know a great deal of effort went into fact checking for every episod

[tips] Bem would have predicted this

2012-07-09 Thread William Scott
The Global consciousness project is interesting at: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ Following is an abstract of a recent review article available at the site. EFFECTS OF MASS CONSCIOUSNESS: CHANGES IN RANDOM DATA DURING GLOBAL EVENTS Roger Nelson, PhD, and Peter Bancel, PhD2 A long-term, continuin

[tips] Phineas Gage redux?

2012-07-09 Thread sblack
Amazingly, so far it appears he has escaped without the still-controversial changes in personality and behaviour which allegedly afflicted poor Phineas. But it may be too soon to say. In particular, check out the remarkable CT scan for Mr. Lopez (which Phineas never got for suffering his injur