Re: [tips] Psychologists Muses About Leaving Academic Psychology for Popular Writing and Gets Willim James Wrong Among Other Things

2016-01-11 Thread Christopher Green
On Jan 11, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Mike Palij wrote: > She also mentions William James and says: > > |...he did establish one of the first psychological laboratories > |in the United States. > > This statement is potentially misleading in several ways: > (1) Billy J was not a researcher in sense th

[tips] Psychologists Muses About Leaving Academic Psychology for Popular Writing and Gets Willim James Wrong Among Other Things

2016-01-11 Thread Mike Palij
Tipsters who read the New Yorker, the NY Times, and some of the pop psych book will be familiar with the name Maria Konnikova who wrote on article in the NY Time magazine this past weekend about her decision to leave academic psychology (can you find the rationalizations?) for a life of writing fo