RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
ssage- From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:12 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable? Hi Scott's observation about lesser negative impac

RE: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Annette Taylor
...@sandiego.edu From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [slil...@emory.edu] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 7:58 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable? Allen: I'm

RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Jim Clark
cellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -Original Message- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:18 AM To: Tea

RE: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
ogical Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable? Unlike Stephen and Scott, I haven't investigated the literature on the effects of the spanking of children. So there are questions the answers to which I am ignorant – e.g., do

RE:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-12-01 Thread Allen Esterson
Unlike Stephen and Scott, I haven't investigated the literature on the effects of the spanking of children. So there are questions the answers to which I am ignorant – e.g., do the relevant studies include in the definition of "spanking" the merest slap across the legs of a recalcitrant infant

RE: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-30 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
ether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -Original Message- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [mailto:sbl...@ubishops.ca] Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:18 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [t

[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-30 Thread sblack
I can't find Michael Britt's original post on this topic in the archives but I recall that he said something to the effect that he was ok with research on spanking because it showed that it has harmful effects. This was compatible with his own view, and so it didn't make him uncomfortable. Whe

Re: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-28 Thread michael sylvester
Just as there are disclaimers on many products there should be a disclaimer written at the end of every reseach report that states that the research results may not hold for non-Eurocentric cultures and societies. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are current

Re: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-28 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
Michael Smith wrote several things of interest to me, anyway. First he said: >What I usually find uncomfortable is that people use "research" to >support their personal views. As a person who started my study of Psychology in 1964 and "practicing" as a teacher since 1970 and practitioner since

Re: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-28 Thread Michael Smith
What I usually find uncomfortable is that people use "research" to support their personal views. For example, Michal Britt finds that he's ok with the research that finds homosexuality is not a mental illness. This is clearly not what research shows since it can show nothing of the kind. Another

Re:[tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-28 Thread Allen Esterson
On 27 November 2010 Michael Sylvester wrote: >It is probably only in the U.S that spanking is viewed >as negative... Michael, I think you'll find that the Scandinavian countries comfortably outdo the U.S. in this respect, as well as some other European countries. Allen Esterson Former lecturer,

Re: [tips] On Objectivity - and what research findings make us uncomfortable?

2010-11-27 Thread michael sylvester
Comfortable/uncomfortable,eh! What's that? This must be the touchy feely aspect of Britt's research paradigm.It should not be a matter of whether one is uncomfortable with research findings.However we are talking about methodology flaws and although reliability can have a high degree of intern