[tips] New ToPIX Content: 9/19/13

Hi everyone, This latest ToPIX update includes new content in the areas of classical conditioning, cognition, learning, neuroscience, operant conditioning, perception, social psychology, statistics, taste, and vision. Thanks go out to Jaclyn Spivey, Jeff Stowell, Jessica Hartnett, Joseph Swope,

Re: [tips] RE: [tips] Rat Park drug experiment cartoon – Stuart McMillen comics

Relative to drug addiction issues, I would highly recommend two books: 1. Blowing Smoke by a psychiatrist, Michael Resnicek, who takes on the controversial perspective that addiction is not a disease but, instead, an ingrained habit; and 2. High Price by Carl Hart whose research at Columbia Univer

[tips] RE: [tips] Rat Park drug experiment cartoon – Stuart McMillen comics

And Barry was very well known for his work in the skeptical community! Take care Jim Jim Clark Professor & Chair of Psychology 204-786-9757 4L41A From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 10:50 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subjec

[tips] The NRC Finally Comes to Its Senses on Improving STEM Education

Some subscribers to TIPS might be interested in a recent post "The NRC Finally Comes to Its Senses on Improving STEM Education." The abstract reads: *** ABSTRACT: Kevin Kiley (2013) in his "Inside Higher Ed" review of Robert Zemsky's

[tips] Rat Park drug experiment cartoon – Stuart McMillen comics

Here is a fantastic way to present the famous "rat park" studies of drug addiction to students who are not yet ready to read the original reports (or, are ready, but need a little "priming" first to get them to do it). http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/#page-1 Full disclosure: I

[tips] old journals

Does anyone know if there is still any market anywhere for old journals? I suspect that even remote areas now have broadband penetration and access to online journals. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, C