The latter, but I encourage you to do the former.
Cheers,
Karl L. Wuensch
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From: Carol [mailto:devoldercar...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 11:54 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Text reviews
If a publisher pays
Probably neither one or the other. There is a need to have inputs from various
sources and each text has certainly good or innovative points as well as less
good and repetitive stuff. Probably it is honest and adequate raise the best
points if the less good points are not very serious.
Carol Devolder asked, 'If a publisher pays me an honorarium to review a
potential text, are they paying me to be honest or are they paying me to say
only good things about the book?"
I can't speak to the publishers' motivations. They may well think/hope they're
paying you for a good review, o
Dear Carol,
I have reviewed a number of texts for payment, and never felt any obligation to
be anything but honest in objective criticism. Of course, $200, although
welcome was not a lot for at least 25 hours of work.
Stuart
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> On Oct 18, 2016, at 12:34 AM, Carol wrote:
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TBH, I think it might be subtle bribe in that they hope that by having us
review their text we might be more motivated to use the text. Keep in
mind the social psychology principle that if you can alter people's
behaviors, sometimes such will result in altering their attitudes. At
times I have tol
Most DEFINITELY to be honest! I have always been honest. For better and for
the WORST! and I wish there were more books I could review ;-) But I do
send feedback routinely on errors or other problems in books. I'm currently
teaching IO and the text selected for me by the department has some
sectio
A colleague of mine is looking for suggestions about journals that would be a
good fit for undergraduate research projects while avoiding the predatory or
for fee. The school does not have a Psi Chi chapter so that one not an option.
Doug
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Hi Doug, I don't have any recommendations for undergraduate journals, but do
recommend that your colleague read the following paper,
http://www.kon.org/ferrari_davis.html.
Miguel
From: Peterson, Douglas (USD) [doug.peter...@usd.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:58 PM
To: Teaching in the
Also, speaking of predatory journals, this item posted today to RetractionWatch
might be of interest.
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/10/18/bats-are-really-cool-animals-how-a-7-year-old-published-a-paper-in-a-journal/#comment-1144827
Miguel
From: Miguel R
Thank you all for taking time to answer my question about text reviews. I
have always reviewed texts honestly and for some reason it occurred to me
that maybe that wasn't what the publishers wanted. I reviewed one the
other day that just didn't seem all that great to me and my feedback to the
publ
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