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Carol A. Serafin
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
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> From: Mike Palij
> Reply-To: TIPS posts
> Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:54:48 -0500
> To: TIPS po
John V. Serafin, Ph.D., 58, of Ligonier, died Sunday evening, Nov. 21, 2010,
at his home. He was born Oct. 22, 1952, in Garden City, Mich., a son of the
late John J. and Lillian Bach Serafin. John earned his Ph.D. from the
University of Michigan. He was a highly respected professor of psychology
To be as succinct as possible: I agree with Michael Smith here. Stop the
thesis level posts.
You know, Allen, you regularly remind us not to accept anything that someone
else has written. Good advice. But then you regularly quote what others have
written. Mike P, you regularly cite sources, and th
Hmmm...I'm not sure why the camera needs to be surgically implanted, so
maybe there's more behind this than is indicated in the story. He's not
feeding these images into any bigger database, is he?
Also, I'm not sure about Fred Ritchin's response that "Obviously you don¹t
want students to be under
Mike P:
You are apparently "picking a nit" with something I said in a previous post
(reference the following quote). No doubt, grooming behavior in these
animals has an important social characteristic. But I'm pretty sure that
they are picking out parasites and other debris in the process, and in
Yes, that certainly looks like the same story. Let's just leave out the
paranormal part of it!
John
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu
> From: Marc Carter
> Reply-To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)"
>
Michael,
Your memory about the monkeys & potatoes is pretty good. I don't remember
the original authors, but the monkeys under study were a colony of Japanese
macaqques on one of the Japanese islands. To support the colony, the humans
would dump food (e.g., potatoes) on the beach. The researchers
Michael,
We've had 2 situation of this type relating to tenure. One was just as you
describe--masters required at time of hiring, later the requirement went up
to PhD. They were grandfathered in, but all of them have since retired, so
it's not a current issue.
The other situation, you might find
Ha! One of the things I have to love about TIPS is that even when I post
something completely tongue-in-cheek, I can count on interesting and
informative replies. Thanks, John K! I'll just add that Brahe & Kepler did
their thing after Copernicus, so I'll still attribute the idea to
Copernicus.
Per
Hey, wait a minute here. Why is that Italian, Galileo, getting credit (or
blame, depending on your perspective) for all of this business about a
heliocentric universe? I thought that my Polish ancestor, Copernicus, was
the one responsible for all of this rabble-rousing.
If they're going to go off
Thank you to both Don and Gary for the comments on these clips. Yeah, I had
assumed that the tiger act involved prisms or some such to mask his original
appearance. I will say, however, that I'm still a bit puzzled by the other
one! Where the devil did that second gal come from?
In any case...good
Ok, I'm going to go out on a limb here. First of all, I admit to being a
huge fan of magicians (illusionists, if you prefer that term). I am not a
huge fan of the show, America's Got Talent. But
That show has a couple of pretty good magicians this year. Relationship to
psychology? This relates
The article cited refers to an earlier case of a "fig tree" growing in a
Russian man's lung. Actually, I believe it was a fir tree. For some
entertaining reports on this, just go to youtube and search for "tree lung."
I happened to run across this just a couple of days ago while looking for
somethi
Thank you, Scott. That's another great example. I love using data like these
in stats. We get to talk a little bit about the underlying psychological
issues, but also can discuss the statistical issues.
So...as in a previous discussion...what's best to summarize these data?
Mean, median, or mode?
Whoa! Little bit of a bimodal distribution...could be useful in statsbut
need more data, please
John
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu
> From: "Shearon, Tim"
> Reply-To: TIPS posts
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 1
Once in a while, our dude comes up with a question that interests me.
Knowing a bit about depth perception, but also having a cataract in one eye,
I can affirm that depth perception is affected by that condition. However,
as others have pointed out, monocular cues for depth are still there.
For a
No, the movie was based on the Kesey novel, which far predated the Rosenhan
study. Better to ask whether the Rosenhan study was a spin off from the novel.
John
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu
From: michael sylveste
have surprised us before (I hope that a degree of seriousness is
perceived in conjunction with a bit of tongue inserted firmly in cheek). :)
Likely, speculation is all we can have here though as I'm pretty sure that our
IRB won't approve this experiment.
Tim
-Original
I imagine that, in contrast to some of the other research recently discussed
here, the placebo effect might not be getting stronger in this field of
research?
John
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent College
Latrobe, PA 15650
john.sera...@email.stvincent.edu
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Ok, it is Friday afternoon, so excuse the silliness. But if you conclude that
Skinner et al. are spinning in their coffins over this, aren't you assigning
thought bubbles to them?
Just aumthought :)
Have a good weekend and break,
John
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John Serafin
Psychology Department
Saint Vincent
Good set of responses to the original question about REM & motor inhibition &
eye movements. Just want to correct one response. Eye movements are not
controlled by autonomic systems. The poster may have been thinking about
functions like pupil dilation/contraction, which are, in fact, controlled
For us, students who are required to take the remedial math course must pass
that remedial course before taking psych stats. The others, we assume they
have the basic math skills necessary. However, during advising, most are
encouraged to take a college-level math course before stats. Not because
t
Ok, all. Looks like TIPS works again.
Hey all, we can stop with the replies.
Bill, thanks for all of your work. I don't know whether this is a problem for
anyone else, but I am getting two copies of every message that is sent to TIPS.
Perhaps a problem on my end, but perhaps not. Anyone else se
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