On Jan 8, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
wrote:
> For example, Gervain (2015) stated:
I forgot to include the reference:
Gervain, J. (2015). Plasticity in early language acquisition: The effects of
prenatal and early childhood experience. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 35,
13-20.
Speaking of the difficulties that skeptics often face when challenging
pseudoscience, junk science, and antiscience (were we? ... well, I think it was
implied), here is a blog post by David Gorski about an invitation to debate
Andrew Weil.
SCIENCE-BASED MED
On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:42 PM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. wrote:
On Apr 28, 2014, at 2:22 PM, rfro...@jbu.edu wrote:
> Another one I have been contacted about is: www.counselingpsychology.org. I
> can’t find the advertising support for this one
I've looked more at their website and, although they hav
On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Mike Palij wrote:
> I suppose that Janet Leigh's shock at being stabbed in the shower
> is a UCS and the shower is CS but doesn't really sound right to me.
Yes, I agree that my labeling of these objects as stimuli is not valid if we
are designing and conducting an e
On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Gerald Peterson wrote:
> It appeared fine here. Enjoyed the reference too...and the picture.
Thanks. Perhaps it's a problem with our email system. I'll check into it.
Best,
Jeff
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On Jul 11, 2012, at 5:13 PM, Jeffry Ricker, PhD wrote:
> I don't think the authors meant it as a cautionary tale.
According to Craig Bennett, the first author of the "Salmon Study":
"The goal of the Salmon poster was to encourage the minority of researchers who
report un
On Jul 11, 2012, at 6:33 AM, Marc Carter wrote:
> Only offering this as a cautionary tale (but not taking sides because others
> know far more about this than I), and because it's damned funny.
> http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pdf
> I always use this in my methods and cog
Hi all,
A very interesting paper to be published in Cognition:
Shtulman, A., & Valcarcel, J. (in press). Scientific knowledge suppresses but
does not supplant earlier intuitions. Cognition. doi:
10.1016/j.cognition.2012.04.005
ABSTRACT
When students learn scientific theories that conflict with
On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Jeffry Ricker, PhD wrote:
> Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to
> Prove ESP Exists
> From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow
> the crowd.
> by Yudhijit Bhattachar
Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to Prove
ESP Exists
>From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never been one to follow
>the crowd.
by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
>From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012
"...Even in the context of a ca
On Jun 4, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:
> I'll give lengthy quotes
> here that typify the point being made by the whole article:….
The main point of this article reminded me of some of the conclusions drawn by
John Ioannidis and his colleagues regarding the reliability/validity of cl
Hi all,
I was just reading a Chronicle blog about linguistics and related topics.
Today's post was written by Carol Saller, who distinguished between writers who
work with music playing and those unable to do so:
"There are always listeners and nonlisteners, but the most passionate are those
w
Hi all,
I don't know if this has been mentioned on TIPS before, so please forgive me if
it has. Stephen Chew, professor and chair of the psychology department at
Samford University, has produced a video series titled "How to Get the Most Out
of Studying": http://www.samford.edu/how-to-study/
On Feb 20, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Deborah S. Briihl wrote:
> Hi!
> I had a list on misconceptions in intro to psych developed/published by
> Annette Taylor. I closed the link and lost the list. I can find the article -
> does anyone have this list? Know where it is at? Thanks!!
I have one from FL-2
On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Bill Southerly wrote:
> many do not have this extra space so that would suggest it may not be
> originating via the TIPS listserver
I suspect that it has something to do with Mac OS X: I can't tell you how many
times I've had difficulties using software and certai
On Jan 29, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Jeffry Ricker, PhD wrote:
> ..came up with the idea. Since it is newer than the idea that 1+1=2, it
> must be better.
I notice that, when I reply to a post (like I'm doing here), a large blank
space appears at the time of my reply. It doesn't
On Jan 28, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Brandon, Paul K wrote:Could be looked at as a variant of the argument from ignorance:In thinking more about this, I remembered something that Scott L. wrote on one of the listservs a while back about the fallacious argumen
On Jan 21, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Michael Palij wrote:
> Of course, it is just a matter of time before a new genre of movies
> appears: space porn.
Mike's post allows for a Teachable Moment, in which we can learn a bit about
the cultural milieu of our students. There is a group of "Rules of the
I
Hi all,
I suspect that many of us, when we teach students to 'think critically', state
that "one can't prove a negative." Here's a brief article that provides a
counter-argument to this claim, at a level that students (and I) can understand:
Hales, S. (2005). You Can Prove a Negative. Think, 10
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