Re: [tips] Replication report released

Thanks for this, Ken. A lot of work by a lot of people. Somebody had to do it. From: Ken Steele Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 3:21:17 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Replication report released Some

Re: [tips] So, What is Going On at Dartmouth?

Their lab website is down. From: Michael Palij Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 9:36:13 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: [tips] So, What is Going On at Dartmouth? Dartmouth is keeping silent about

Re: [tips] When the Impossible is Shown to be Impossible: A Case Study in Failing to Replicate

There are those who would argue that it is the peer review process that has failed us by avoiding the publication of replication studies in favor of flashy "discovery". As well many of the critics who have been accused of cyber-bullying have argued that when the arguments have been made in the

Re: [tips] How Should the New Papers by Scientists Convicted of Misconduct Be Handled by Journals?

It appears that we see those colleagues who have been found to violate scientific standards in the same way that society views sex offenders. Place them on a registry and treat them with extraordinary vigilance. We all know they are incorrigible. From: Miguel

Re: [tips] What the Numbers Tell Us About Literature (and non-lit)

He had to read and code each first sentence in his database as to whether it was weather. That is one step toward coding "It was a dark and stormy night", but how do you operationalize "perfervid turgidity"? From: Mike Palij Sent: Monday, March

Re:[tips] Student's Name: _________

Those who carry their sense of humor to the very end of the stats semester deserve both. Kudos. From: Wuensch, Karl Louis Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 8:51:48 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Student's

[tips] Interesting idea to avoid publication bias

Reviewing Results-Free Manuscripts An open-access journal is trialing a peer-review process in which reviewers do not have access to the results or discussion sections of submitted papers. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/47081/title/Reviewing-Results-Free-Manuscripts/

Re: [tips] The Longest Running Scientific Experiments, Part Uno

Neither article mentioned the Framingham Heart Study, which I believe should qualify, especially if one is including HeLa cells as an example of long running research. The FHS started in 1948, while HeLa was still alive. BTW, it was "World is Not Enough".

Re: [tips] on STM

Mike, I read your reply and said to myself "thanks for clearing that up, Mike. Now I don't have to write anything." I should have replied, "thanks for clearing that up, Mike" but I didn't want to sound sarcastic and I didn't know which emojee to attach. Thanks for clearing that up, Mike[??]

Re: [tips] Is 7% Copying Still Plagiarism?

quote from the CNN report: "Manafort said the words Melania used were not "cribbed" but are common words." What a great defense to the charge of plagiarism. We have a bass player in our bluegrass group who often tells a joke on stage. He claims to know all the words to all the Bluegrass

Re: [tips] The Flaw at the Heart of Psychological Research

Meehl certainly knew of and was concerned with structural equation modelling. The way his 2002 paper on this is written seems to imply that he had been worrying himself with it for decades. http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/177pathanalysismw2002.pdf

Re:[tips] Cheating watches

Interesting, and ironic that they seem worried about folks buying counterfeit versions of their watch. From: Miguel Roig Sent: Friday, March 25, 2016 7:42 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Cheating

Re: [tips] Have Scientists Become Gutless Wonders?

Reminds me of this article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147596701917342 Bertocchi, G., & Spagat, M. (2001). The Politics of Co-optation. Journal of Comparative Economics, 29(4), 591-607. Abstract Our model consists of two groups. Group 1 holds political power and Group

[tips] color as a brain construction

Here's a great afterimage video that gives you a full color photo illusion when viewing a black and white photo. You can make the illusion disappear by moving your eyes during the experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8q_dCU3RI

Re: [tips] The Bayesian Reproducibility Project

Mike Palij writes: it is not always clear what a Bayesian approach buys one though there may [be] situations when it is the method of choice. - Well, it seems to help identify those studies that REALLY REALLY didn't replicate and those that REALLY REALLY did. To me, this

Re: [tips] Fw:CORRECTED If Your Students Want To Get A Mortgage When They Graduate, Tell Them Be Good Students

Wagerman Funder (2007) showed that conscientiousness predicted college GPA independent of SAT and high school GPA. Also see Noftle Robins (2007, http://psychology.okstate.edu/faculty/jgrice/psyc4333/FiveFactor_GPA_JPSP.pdf) who found conscientiousness as the best personality predictor of

Re: [tips] Retraction of another psychology article

There is something peculiar about Professor Green's spin on his own culpability in the matter. Even though he is the co-author, he claims not to have had access to the raw data because the study was not approved by Columbia's IRB, only by UCLA. I do not know of anything that forbids data

Re: [tips] Rich Atkinson Lays The Smackdown On The SAT

It seems to me that criterion referenced tests and norm referenced tests are appropriate for different purposes and the usual use of the SAT is best served by a norm referenced approach. Criterion referenced tests are helpful in evaluating the educational institution or establishment under

Re:[tips] Confidential test materials Ethics Review Boards

Could your colleague use one of the disappearing text apps to send it to them? From: Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 11:08 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Confidential test materials Ethics Review

Re:[tips] Neurobabble and Eminem

Speculation regarding the size of certain bodily organs of rock stars has a long history, but usually among groupies. Are these babblers doing anything different? From: Gerald Peterson peter...@svsu.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 4, 2015 8:42 AM To: Teaching

Re: [tips] Are Expenisve Placebos More Effective Than Cheap Placebos?

Although not a properly controlled study, this phenomenon was reported back in 1965 by Park Covi. http://archpsyc.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=488749 From: Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edu Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:45 PM To:

Re: [tips] Are Expenisve Placebos More Effective Than Cheap Placebos?

Sorry. I think my previous post may have been unclear. I was referring to the effectiveness of unblinded placebos, not expensive placebos in my previous post. From: Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edu Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2015 12:45 PM To:

Re: [tips] Psychology is over.

cognitive vs. behavioral makes a clear picture for class. From: Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca Sent: Saturday, November 1, 2014 2:21 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology is over. a) Sorry, Ken, I thought

Re:[tips] Does education about their mental illness help clients/patients?

It's called bibliotherapy by some, and it is usually seen as an adjunct to psychotherapy. There also is a group who uses the term bibliotherapy in a way similar to music or art therapy, wherein the guided contact with literature in general is seen as good for the psyche. I do not know of any

RE: [tips] Biological/Physiological Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience

From: Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca Ooo! Something I know a little about. First off, Gary NO ONE says history and systems anymore. Sure fire way to reveal that you haven't revised your history and systems course in about 25 years. :-) --- I'm glad

RE: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook Is Here And Somebody Is Not Going To Be Happy!

I see that 5% of the quality of education is based on RateMyProfessor scores. From: Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2014 6:14 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Holy Crap! The New Phonebook

RE: [tips] The NYT Reviews Lucy, The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More...

Mike Palij points out: In this review Mr. Roston notes the 10% myth and actually provides a link to a Scientific American article from 2008 on it; here is the article: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-people-only-use-10-percent-of-their-brains/ Do we need to

[tips] Visiting faculty position 2014-2015

Excuse if this is redundant. Please share with those who might be interested. Thanks! Beloit College invites applications for a one-year (with possible one-year renewal) faculty leave replacement in Cultural and Developmental Psychology beginning August 15, 2014. The successful candidate will

RE: Re:[tips] While we are on the topic of Skinner

From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:36 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: Re:[tips] While we are on the topic of Skinner ... A behavioral account might be relevant to certain

RE: [tips] What Binge Drinking In Rats Can Teach Us

I don't think they were using Falk's technique which was the induction of polydipsia in response to intermittent schedules of food reward. They used simple intermittent availability of the ethanol to pump up consumption. But what bothers me about their study is they seem to have no control

RE: [tips] Need SPSS data sets

Sciences (TIPS); William Scott Subject: Re: [tips] Need SPSS data sets Hi Nancy, Are you aware of the data archive on the Journal of Statistics Education (JSE) website? You can get to it here: http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.htm. There is typically a .txt or .csv

Re: [tips] Polling...

To me, the phrase approaching significance implies that all we need to do is run a few more subjects until we see significance, a practice known to bolster your chances for a type I error. Bill Scott Claudia Stanny 04/22/13 1:28 PM Highly significant

Re: [tips] Evidence for Defense Mechanisms???

Although a little old, students find the following article edifying. Freudian Defense Mechanisms and Empirical Findings in Modern Social Psychology: Reaction Formation, Projection, Displacement, Undoing, Isolation, Sublimation, and Denial Roy F. Baumeister, Karen Dale, and Kristin L. Sommer

re: [tips] The evidence based bandwagon?

Although evidence-based practice is certainly a nice ideal, it rarely occurs in most of the practices that try to follow that ideal. The reason is that all the evidence is not available. There have been many discussions of the file-drawer problem and small studies with lack of power on this

Re: [tips] What Famous Experiment Was Conducted on Good Friday?

I wouldn't call all of the participants of Pahnke's Good Friday experiment divinity students unless you use a broad definition. Timothy Leary was putatively one of them. Bill Scott Mike Palij 03/29/13 11:00 AM What experiment is associated with Good Friday, 1962 and went on to become known

Re: [tips] What Famous Experiment Was Conducted on Good Friday?

Jim James M. Clark Professor Chair of Psychology j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Room 4L41A 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax Dept of Psychology, U of Winnipeg 515 Portage Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0R4 CANADA William Scott 29-Mar-13 1:01 PM I wouldn't call all of the participants of Pahnke's Good Friday

Re: [tips] Is Pavlov in the House?

It might depend on their age. Younger people are more likely to find the aroma of Windex more comforting than baking bread. Here's a recent related study. http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facBios/file/Smell%20of%20Virtue%20Psych%20Sci.pdf A spritz of windex led folks to being more willing to

Re: [tips] Where have all the tipsters gone?

I thought Jeff's listserv had died, perhaps along with Jeff, until he reappeared on TIPs. I may still be a member because I don't remember signoffing (that will probably never become a verb now that listservs are a thing of the past), but many of us don't start things off, just adding in every

[tips] Happy Fechner Insight Day

October 22, 1850 A day to celebrate psychophysics!!! --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=21231 or send a blank email to

Re: [tips] Is p .05 ?

I think the prediction from Karl's observation is that if the obtained t is 1.0999783 and the critical t is 1.1113, then many students would make a mistake in choosing which was larger. I am gob-smacked. Karl's observation, if true, might explain many things that until now have been

RE: [tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

I've seen a couple of liberal arts schools go from requiring math courses to requiring a quantitative course which is probably in the direction that Marc Carter is suggesting. These curricular changes were for the better but in the examples that I have participated in, the main motivation came

Re: [tips] Textbook Prices

Pretty expensive. Of course students know how to find it and read it at places like this: http://www.filestube.com/f5PGP13qX71itChTWgUy4T/Experiement-and-Quasi-Experimental-Designs-for-Research.html by just Googling the title and adding pdf to the search Wuensch, Karl L 07/29/12 8:30 PM

RE: [tips] Portable, digital texbooks

Pirated copies are easily available on the internet of Shadish's update, too. Bill Scott Michael Palij 07/29/12 8:57 PM On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:08:04 -0700, Karl LvWuensch wrote: One of my online students has queried me regarding why psychology textbooks are not available in

Re: [tips] Query about Type of Multi-Choice Question

These items and other puzzle solving type items such as odd-item-out almost always show the highest index of discrimination when I do an item analysis of my tests. Of course, if the tests are meant to score thinkers more highly than knowers, then this will probably not be a surprising result.

[tips] Bem would have predicted this

The Global consciousness project is interesting at: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ Following is an abstract of a recent review article available at the site. EFFECTS OF MASS CONSCIOUSNESS: CHANGES IN RANDOM DATA DURING GLOBAL EVENTS Roger Nelson, PhD, and Peter Bancel, PhD2 A long-term,

[tips] Fighting GNATS: computer game to treat adolescent depression

GNATS are gloomy negative autonomous thoughts, of course. Merry, et al. article at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3330131/ Synopsis from POEMs research summaries: ... investigators enrolled 187 adolescents presenting to youth clinics, general practices, and school-based counseling

Re: [tips] NPR says...

Correlation-causation. Do crazy cat-ladies go out looking for (possibly infected) cats or do the cats make them that way? In any case, maybe the study helps justify the stereotype. Bill Scott 07/08/12 2:14 PM My dog tipped me off to this. She's

Re: [tips] USA TODAY: Report: UNC athletes took suspect classes

The course was titled. Blacks in North Carolina, without instruction, but with a 10-15 page paper required. According to the Census Bureau there are 2,076,126 blacks in NC. It would take more than 15 typed pages just to list their names. Bill Scott Gerald Peterson 06/12/12 10:24 AM I bet

Re: [tips] Replication studies

Ken, Because of your good work at attempting to replicate the Mozart effect, you are by far the most cited TIPS contributor in my classes and in research conferences with my students. You have set a good example. It is interesting that Animal IRB's often set a standard which makes it

Re: [tips] vegan diet + alcohol + antidepressant = perfect storm?

Beth Benoit writes-- Her defense psychologist argued that Schuler's medical and physical ailments combined with her vegan diet and use of alcohol and an antidepressant were a 'perfect storm' that impaired her ability to tell right from wrong. The defense psychologist's web page can be

Re:[tips] Why Do People Need A College B.A.?

Bob Wildblood sez: I think we are facing a qualifications inflation as well as a possible grade inflation problem. - Of course the two are probably related. Perhaps in the past as well as now the requirements for a position have always been having the credentials that indicate you

Re: [tips] naming labs

Annette, You may be interested in the musings of another person in your position who had similar thoughts. http://science-professor.blogspot.com/2011/06/awesome-lab-of-significant-science-and.html Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click

Re: [tips] REALLY Reading Your Mind (No Bem Stuff)

I am reminded of the work of musical composer David Rosenboom 30+ years ago where he attempted to eliminate the middle-man of the musical instrument by having synthesizers directly play the music imagined by the performer as calculated from the EEG. Interesting results can be heard in his album

RE: [tips] When Prophecy Fails, 2011 Version

Helweg-Larsen, Marie 04/28/11 11:51 AM wrote: ...Science denial today is considerably more prominent on the political right-once you survey climate and related environmental issues, anti-evolutionism, attacks on reproductive health science by the Christian right, and stem-cell and

Re:[tips] Random Thought: The Birthright To Make Mistakes, II

In responding to foma, Mike Palij claims to be creating more. I agree with the first characterization but disagree with the latter. I think there are survivable mistakes and nonsurvivable mistakes followed by some good allusions to zen and descriptions of flow states. I'd like to add some zen

Re: [tips] Rubber band snapping

I think the original purpose of the technique was distraction/disruption of a behavioral chain. The original name of the technique was thought stopping. It was an early cognitive-behavioral method. Bill Scott Rick Froman 02/23/11 11:28 AM !--/* Font Definitions

Re: [tips] Recovered memory therapy in court

This is a local case where I live here in Wisconsin. Of particular interest is the fact that the patient and therapists claim that the patient arrived in therapy with the memory of abuse and that the therapists claimed that they challenged the memory (although clearly ineffectively). No

Re: [tips] breakthrough! 3D video without glasses

204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca William Scott 20-Jan-11 5:16:45 PM This fellow has discovered a way to view 3D TV without the glasses. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/15/man-discovers-glasses-free-3d-tech-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-video/#disqus_thread Bill Scott --- You are currently

[tips] breakthrough! 3D video without glasses

This fellow has discovered a way to view 3D TV without the glasses. http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/15/man-discovers-glasses-free-3d-tech-in-the-blink-of-an-eye-video/#disqus_thread Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

I suppose signal detection theory might have something to contribute here. I've experienced them, too, mainly in the car where road vibration or radio speaker vibration might set off a false alarm. The BMJ article broke it down by medical specialty/status. Perhaps it occurs more when the

Re: [tips] Psychological Science

We could turn this into an empirical question. The following article (abstract from PsychInfo) might be of interest: Title:Psychology's Status as a Scientific Discipline: Its Empirical Placement Within an Implicit Hierarchy of the Sciences. Author:Simonton, Dean Keith Author

[tips] Death of John Sarafin

I am sorry to hear of this and send my condolences to John's family. I am re-sending this to TIPS with a proper heading so others won't miss it who otherwise might. Bill Scott Serafin, John 11/25/10 7:19 AM John V. Serafin, Ph.D., 58, of Ligonier, died Sunday evening, Nov. 21, 2010, at his

Re:[tips] NYU Faculty First In Backward Looking Technology!

Mike Palij provides the The description of Bilal's art: |The artwork, titled The 3rd I, is intended as “a comment on the |inaccessibility of time, and the inability to capture memory and |experience, the WSJ explains, quoting press materials from the |museum, which is to feature Bilal’s work

RE:[tips] English as a second language

I have a grading rubric that allocates 15 points out of 100 for writing and communication. The rest of the points are for content and form. If the paper is in any way putatively written in English, it is hard for a student to receive fewer than 8 points for writing. The rest is based on what I

Re: [tips] Tenure Track Position in Cognitive Neuroscience

Qualifications: ... 6.An ability to perform all duties with or without reasonable accommodations. Am I misperceiving this, or is this code for something? Bill Scott --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Why isn't this plagiarism?

How about this one. Jay Leno, in his autobiography, Leading With My Chin, wrote (and I think no one doubts that he wrote it) at least one story about his life that didn't happen to him but rather happened to someone else (comedian Jeff Altman). He paid Altman for the right to claim Altman's

Re: [tips] Peirce smart; Wundt nazi?

Allen Esterson wrote: Freud does not suggest anti-Semitism played any role in his deciding to change his career, and nor to biographers Ernest Jones, Ronald Clark or Peter Gay, so I'm left wondering where Chris got his mistaken notion from. --- Freud may have dismissed

RE: [tips] IRB Question

I have served on the IRB of two different institutions. In both, approval to continue gathering data ended on the termination date when there was no renewal, but not data analysis or presentations. This makes no sense. Papers are written regularly using data that were never even collected by

Re: [tips] Experiential Learning

Students have 2 written assignments for internships. 1) a journal of their activities and reflections regarding such 2) a paper that reviews some relevant literature and compares the experience with the literature. The purpose of this paper is to discuss which experiences were as described in

RE: [tips] diploma mills

I think the phone number in Scott's original post is an identified spam number (try googling it) and Beth's message got through because she deleted it. By the way, the number for outside the USA is the same as inside the USA except you dial +1 instead of 1. How do you do that? Bill Scott

Re: [tips] Happiness and the good life -- was Parenting taken to the woodshed

Sorry for a delayed response. I've been out of town. This article which defends parenting in the face of the fact that parents are less happy than single adults should be the place where it could be pointed out that a good life need not be equated with a happy life. I didn't reply earlier

Re: [tips] Cloned authors

My father who was an attorney found someone with exactly the same name who was a district attorney in Denver, but they never wrote a paper together. My wife found out that there was someone with exactly the same name as hers in town who was a bad person (fraud and missed rent payments) that led

Re: [tips] Grading by Crowdsourcing

Long ago I had the brilliant idea of asking students to grade themselves on their own class participation which was a syllabus defined percentage of their grade. I found their estimates to be close to what I would have given them. They seemed to be quite honest and few went for the easy A.

RE: [tips] Grading by Crowdsourcing

Paul says Paul C Bernhardt pcbernha...@frostburg.edu 05/03/10 8:17 PM Seems that you can get around the FERPA issue by the contract at the start of the semester? I think this might only be true if the original syllabus contract explicitly states that the students will be sharing their

[tips] the relationship between behavior and public events

I know others have contributed graphics from this source which is highly recommended and here is another. The relationship between water use in a large Canadian city and the Canadian Olympic hockey finals. Water use includes drinking, watering the lawns and plants, washing the cars, and of

Re: [tips] Profs now outsourcing marking to India - thestar.com

Sounds like a good idea. I've rarely had a TA that could provide good feedback. The usual consequence of giving papers to a TA is to have the papers delayed in giving them back to the students, without any improvement in feedback provided beyond what I do. I've seen that as training for the TA

RE: [tips] Coke bottle cheating

I usually allow one note card per chapter of text that is being covered. It makes no difference in relative student performance and the students like the idea. By the way, the coke bottle cheating is hardly new. My (now 90 year old) mother taught me her favorite way of cheating in college. She

Re: [tips] Will Your College Accept Chickens For Tuition?

No government in its right mind (oxymoron?) would support a barter system. Imagine calculating the taxes. Can't go there. Bill Scott Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu 04/23/10 9:20 PM Perhaps you have heard of Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada Sue Lowden's plan for paying for health care:

RE: [tips] Top 10 challenging concepts

other challenging concepts: heritability discriminative stimuli Paul C Bernhardt pcbernha...@frostburg.edu 04/20/10 8:00 PM Thanks for the various responses to the Biserial question. I love that I learn new things every day! Challenging Concepts to Teach: Sleeper Effect

RE: [tips] Psychology and Military in News Again

Tim Shearon asks: what evidence is there that these particular individuals are not exceptional (exceptionally bad examples!). --- I had second thoughts after sending the outrage that Tim was referring to (still partially hanging below) because I know that psychopathic individuals are

Re: [tips] Psychology and Military in News Again

Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com 04/08/10 7:29 PM writes: I'll be interested to read the analysis. - The analysis published here is hardly an analysis but rather a justification as explanation of the actions of helicopter snipers. Although there may be a way to understand

RE: [tips] What A Day: Mystery, Redemption, Astrology, Astronomy, History, and Tragedy

Louis Schmier lschm...@valdosta.edu 04/04/10 8:42 PM As a member of said race? As a spokesman in this region of the United States on many an occasion for my religion, not to mention a scholarly resume of some professional repute on this subject, I can attest that Judaism is not--I repeat, is

Re: [tips] Long before Rosenhan

What would be the outcome of someone now sending pseudodeppressives into primary care offices with complaints of being unhappy and sad and having trouble sleeping in order to see how many were diagnosed with mood disorder and given a presciption for antidepressants. I can predict that most would

RE: [tips] graduate program admissions

Shearon, Tim tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu 03/19/10 9:05 PM wrote: I'd have to say that she applied to one program that had a lick of sense and they got a good graduate student! (I think I sort of knew the last part was true- that the system doesn't necessarily select the best students - but I

Re: [tips] A Moment To Remember

April 19 was also the Waco massacre which the Oklahoma bombing was a tribute to. April 20 Columbine was mentioned in diaries as a tribute to Adolph Hitler's birthday. There does seem to be some pattern of anniversary violence. Do we know anything about it? Bill Scott Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu

Re: [tips] Of Pups And Puzzles

showings on the books at this time. Too bad. I'd like to get a copy. Bill Scott Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu 02/21/10 8:19 PM I believe that showing refers to earlier today when Mike saw it (11:00 am). Rick Rick Froman rfro...@jbu.edu On Feb 21, 2010, at 4:46 PM, William Scott : wsc

Re: [tips] Of Pups And Puzzles

Oops. I'm wrong.The MMPI came first. Beth was of course right. The movie was produced in 1941 and the MMPI was first published in 1942, but the development of it was previous to the film. Bill Scott Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com 02/21/10 4:48 PM They're still using the MMPI, aren't

Re: [tips] Of Pups And Puzzles

My last post of the day, all 3 about this interesting movie which I would love to have both for the psych testing course but also for the history and systems course. TCM.com says that it is showing it tonight Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:01 AM EST which according to my TIVO puts it in the middle of

RE: [tips] Which is the Better Bet: A Coin Toss or Punxsutawney Phil?

is .031, significant. Cheers, Karl W. -Original Message- From: William Scott [mailto:wsc...@wooster.edu] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:32 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Which is the Better Bet: A Coin Toss or Punxsutawney Phil? If Phil