Re: [tips] Low light level cone function

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
Thanks. The constant eye movement and the fovea being so small does sound like a good physio-type answer. I had considered the idea that we do have one and I just have not tested it in dark conditions to really see it. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University

[tips] Low light level cone function

2018-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
the information with the rods and remembering it when shifting my gaze to that spot. I know memory stuff better than physiology stuff, so I thought that there might be a better or at least a more physio-oriented answer. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe

Re: [tips] Illusion

2018-03-26 Thread Rick Stevens
Right after I said that I wish I could get the gif file in response to Don's message, I see that this link has it. I have 'illusion day' for Sensation and Perception, so a good addition to my collection. RS Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe

Re: [tips] Easy/accessible articles

2017-08-11 Thread Rick Stevens
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/ Christopher Green's site is good for older stuff. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 4:03 AM, Miguel Roig <ro...@stjohns.edu> wrote: > Hi Lenore, I offer students extra cred

Re: [tips] Grad level cognition text

2017-07-21 Thread Rick Stevens
course only had readings. RS Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 07:50:44 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > >> Anyone have suggestions fo

[tips] Grad level cognition text

2017-07-19 Thread Rick Stevens
Anyone have suggestions for a graduate level cognition textbook? Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id

[tips] The Dress

2017-04-08 Thread Rick Stevens
ot; https://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/science-of-the-dress?utm_term=.ou38j5D1G#.dr0re5bR3 Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostbur

[tips] Beall's list

2017-01-22 Thread Rick Stevens
Just some info on the list going away. https://debunkingdenialism.com/2017/01/16/what-happened-to-jeffrey-bealls-list-of-allegedly-predatory-publishers/ Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re: [tips] Highest IQ cabinet

2017-01-21 Thread Rick Stevens
IQ = Investment Quotient Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Annette Taylor <tay...@sandiego.edu> wrote: > > Certainly the wealthiest! > > Billionaire 'boys' club--'boys' in quotes because th

Re: [tips] Practicing scientific thinking

2016-07-10 Thread Rick Stevens
assume that medical school approaches differ widely. In terms of the Gallagher, "...must be demonic possession", it reminded me of the 'god of the gaps' idea. I can see how that would seem overconfident. "If I don't know how it works, it must be magic." Rick Stevens School of B

[tips] Summer Hiring

2016-06-06 Thread Rick Stevens
, College of Business and Behavior Sciences, Strauss Hall University of Louisiana at Monroe, 700 University Avenue, Monroe LA. mcc...@ulm.edu (318) 342-1105 The University of Louisiana at Monroe is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Re: [tips] Cheating watches

2016-03-25 Thread Rick Stevens
and a very limited ability to search through it. If you had to decide what to put and dictate facts in some shortened audio format, it would amount to putting time into studying. I doubt that this will catch on. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe

Re: [tips] "Troubling Oddities" In A Social Psychology Data Set - Neuroskeptic

2016-02-07 Thread Rick Stevens
lpful if the authors explained why they decided to retract the 3rd study. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Christopher Green <chri...@yorku.ca> wrote: > > I think you were primed to say that, Michael. :-) &g

[tips] Re: [tips] Graphicacious Decepticons Say “No” to Tabular Bells and Statistical Cling (was: it is not FOX)

2015-11-16 Thread Rick Stevens
-dive/2013/12/10/gms-new-ceo-is-another-small-crack-in-the-glass-ceiling / Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. < jeff.ric...@scottsdalecc.edu> wrote: > > > On Nov 14, 2

Re: [tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-14 Thread Rick Stevens
I'm adding these to my collection for my stat class. One thing different about the Planned Parenthood one is that the Y-axis was ascending on one side of the graph, but it was reversed on the other side. This is in addition to the scales being totally off from one side to the other. Rick Stevens

Re: [tips] Most misleading statistical graphic ever?

2015-11-13 Thread Rick Stevens
This one was pretty good, too. http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/oct/01/jason-chaffetz/chart-shown-planned-parenthood-hearing-misleading-/ Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Jim Clark

Re: [tips] Fechner Day!

2015-10-22 Thread Rick Stevens
I put in my Sensation and Perception syllabus that they get the day off for Fechner Day. It has fallen on a day that we have off, anyway, every year except one since I started doing that, about 9 or 10 years. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe

Re: [tips] More on Nobel prize and traditional medicine

2015-10-14 Thread Rick Stevens
This is a good source for medical skeptical thinking. http://www.skepdoc.info/id10.html Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Jim Clark <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote: > > > Is it redundant

Re: [tips] Quack Psychology

2015-09-17 Thread Rick Stevens
And, darn if you didn't miss the Canadian Energy Psychology Conference. It was last month. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Jim Clark <j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca> wrote: > > > Hi > > > &

Re: [tips] Processes Involved in Visual Illusions

2015-06-04 Thread Rick Stevens
students who are willing to take the time or make the effort to see what I am talking about. One of my students had strabismus and could not resolve the images. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Mike Palij m

Re: [tips] Happy Vernal Equinox! Wait, What's The White Stuff?

2015-03-20 Thread Rick Stevens
The white stuff should make you feel better. That's how you know that global warming is a hoax, just ask senator Inhofe, or watch him throw a snowball in senate chambers. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:16 AM

Re: [tips] Why do we feel embarrassed for others?

2015-02-16 Thread Rick Stevens
=ATVPDKIKX0DERpf_rd_r=1WH7GRY22SBXVJV5YHS2 Actually, each one had 5 or 6 titles on Amazon. Something must have been reinforcing the behavior. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 2:58 AM, Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca wrote

Re: [tips] 13 charts that explain why your college major matters

2014-10-07 Thread Rick Stevens
That earnings chart did say that it would look different if you factored in graduate school and psychology was above the middle of the chart for who goes to graduate school. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 9:42 AM

Re: [tips] tips netiquette

2014-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
to evaluate what of it you might want to delete. Sometimes it is good to have the previous message if the reader doesn't remember or hasn't seen the first one(s). Personally, I just think that the digest option isn't a very good option. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University

Re: [tips] UG Psych students magazine

2014-02-03 Thread Rick Stevens
It looks nice. I'll show it to our Psi Chi group here and see if they get inspired. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote: Here is a link to a magazine that our

Re: [tips] Feynman on Psychology

2014-01-28 Thread Rick Stevens
It kind of sounded like he was criticizing Freudian theories rather than psychological research. Rick Stevens School of Behavioral and Social Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Michael Britt mich...@thepsychfiles.comwrote: Here's a clip from a video

Re: [tips] What's the Bold Term?

2014-01-08 Thread Rick Stevens
I thought it was just not caring about accuracy when it conflicts with your job description. Rick Stevens Department of Behavioral Sciences University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 7:14 AM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote

Re: [tips] Pavlov and bells

2013-09-27 Thread Rick Stevens
One possibility for why we don't remember the metronome could be that it doesn't fit well into our schemas for CS. My limited memory of a metronome is a thing on a piano that makes noise continuously. A bell is more of a discrete stimulus. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University

Re: [tips] Good Psychology Mobile Apps

2013-09-11 Thread Rick Stevens
I'm not sure what to make of the fact that Michael's list is very much oriented towards idevices with no mention of Android. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Deborah S Briihl dbri

Re: [tips] cost of skepticism

2013-08-26 Thread Rick Stevens
The latest episode of The Skeptics Guide to the Universe mentions the person in India who was shot and has an interview with another skeptic activist from India who has been staying out of the country for fear of being arrested, or possibly worse. http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ Rick Stevens

Re: [tips] Why my mind no longer changes on weed?

2013-08-14 Thread Rick Stevens
Was this stuff that had no effect in the back of your sock drawer for the last 20 years? Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wuens...@ecu.edu wrote

Re: [tips] The ultimate failure of true curving

2013-07-16 Thread Rick Stevens
them that I would uphold the rules and give everyone an A if they did that. Then, I reminded them of the prisoner's dilemma and asked them if they could really trust everyone in class to not go ahead and answer more questions. They chickened out. (I just saw Chris' post as I finished this.) Rick

Re: [tips] AAUP recommends more researcher autonomy in IRB reform | Inside Higher Ed

2013-03-07 Thread Rick Stevens
I recently had a simple, innocuous memory experiment rejected because 'the students might feel bad if they couldn't remember all of the words'. It did get approved after I explained that if all of the students recalled all of the words, I would have nothing to compare between groups. Rick

Re: [tips] Inattention blindness in radiologists

2013-02-12 Thread Rick Stevens
It was good timing for me. I showed the original in the cognitive class last week. When I heard the story I sent the NPR link to the class. I think it is good to be able to show how a rather goofy study about attention can actually have real applications. Rick Stevens Psychology Department

[tips] computer perception

2013-01-28 Thread Rick Stevens
of effort into their jobs, but reading non-distorted text seems like a big task. The distorted text that a 5-year-old can read but a computer can't was brought up in the textbook, but I wondered if anyone knew how the web bots would actually try to read text in a picture. Rick Stevens Psychology

Re: [tips] why the US is doomed

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Stevens
To follow up on Chris' comment, it's not the fact that Honey Boo Boo exists that dooms the US, it's the fact that so many people want to watch and talk about these people. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks On Sat

Re: [tips] Delicious irony

2012-08-26 Thread Rick Stevens
Don't forget, the 2008 Republican Convention was delayed by Hurricane Gustav. Perhaps this God's way of preventing the Log Cabin Republicans from speaking. I'm guessing that when they start cutting people from the schedule to make up for lost time, their time slot will be in jeopardy. Rick

Re: [tips] Pop Psych books that could be useful for research seminar class

2012-08-09 Thread Rick Stevens
is a cognitive psychologist and is currently working as Associate Professor in Consumer Behaviour at INCAE as well as being a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University. I think she was a grad student when she wrote the book, though. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana

Re: [tips] How To Get More Girls Interested in Science?

2012-06-27 Thread Rick Stevens
is on every episode and the nerdy, less attractive one has a Ph.D. and is only on sporadically. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com OSGrid - Evert Snicks.SL - Evert Snook On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote

Re: [tips] psychology and powerpoint

2011-11-21 Thread Rick Stevens
I've been giving out the PowerPoint pdfs after the lecture. They seem to take more notes that way, at least the ones near the front who I can see. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- You are currently subscribed

Re: [tips] Those MLB Necklaces and NFL Armbands

2011-10-28 Thread Rick Stevens
If you want to work up a health improvement birthday basket you can include some Mudoku Detox Foot Pads. Made with holistic ingredients. (Warning: For external use only.) http://www.amazon.com/Detox-Foot-Pads-Absorbs-Impurities/dp/B00485LTYY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1319839420sr=8-1 Rick Stevens

Re: [tips] The Finding Little Albert activity

2011-09-06 Thread Rick Stevens
have just been really tired of that game. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com wrote: I always used the example that when Albert got older, he may have

Re: Re:[tips] African-Americans versus immigrants and Latin Americans

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Stevens
of identifying who you don't want to hear from and setting up your own email filters to send those people straight to the trash folder. I have filtered more than one person over the years. It's a form of customizing the list to suit your taste. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana

Re: [tips] Oh, dear ...

2011-07-28 Thread Rick Stevens
(and poorly paid). Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:12 AM, roig-rear...@comcast.net wrote: The latest issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science contains the following paper

Re: [tips] Franklin's kite and other scientific myths

2011-06-08 Thread Rick Stevens
I'm not sure what problem there would be with a bar to press or a button to push in a crib. If you can teach pigeons to read that way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_ctJqjlrHA it should work on kids, too. Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r

Re: [tips] Blue eyes/brown eyes study?

2011-04-28 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] Course Instructor: You and Your Avatar

2011-04-12 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] Pet peeve: Grammar Nazis

2011-03-13 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] Minds of Mnemonists

2011-01-02 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] Distinguished scientist descends into pseudoscience

2010-12-12 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: Re:[tips] A brilliant discovery

2010-12-09 Thread Rick Stevens
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[tips] Retinal Implants

2010-11-05 Thread Rick Stevens
A bit of science news about retinal implants. http://tinyurl.com/29qrwlx http://tinyurl.com/29qrwlx* -- Rick Stevens Psychology Department University of Louisiana at Monroe stevens.r...@gmail.com SL - Evert Snook --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe

Re: [tips] Mind - Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits - NYTimes.com

2010-09-07 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: RE: [tips] Getting students to read (was: Textbook rentals?)

2010-07-23 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away | Ben Goldacre | Comment is free | The Guardian

2010-07-13 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] On Facebook, FYI

2010-04-04 Thread Rick Stevens
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Re: [tips] One-eyed 3-D?

2010-04-02 Thread Rick Stevens
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