[tips] When Prophecy Fails

2011-05-23 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
I thought that some TIPSters might be interested in this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110522/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday The following line in particular caught my attention, and surely would have put a smile on the faces of Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter: "Many followers said

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2011-04-30 Thread William Scott
>>> "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 biome

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2011-04-28 Thread Helweg-Larsen, Marie
/~helwegm/index.html -Original Message- From: Bourgeois, Dr. Martin [mailto:mbour...@fgcu.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 17:56 To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] When Prophecy Fails, 2011 Version Here's another related piece that points out th

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2011-04-28 Thread Bourgeois, Dr. Martin
ott O [slil...@emory.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 11:45 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] When Prophecy Fails, 2011 Version This brief piece may be relevant to the Mike P-Mike S interchange about rebutting conspiracy theories. I suspect the outcome

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2011-04-28 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
u; 404-727-1125 -Original Message- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 9:02 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: Re: [tips] When Prophecy Fails, 2011 Version On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:23:24 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote

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2011-04-28 Thread michael sylvester
Mike P: I have read Festinger's work.- don't forget I am PhD.Whereas there are multiple ways to manage cognitive dissonance, remaining obstinate and obdurate are not methods to resolve the issue. Btw,I taught citizenship class and keep in mind that one can also becoma a citizen if one has one

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2011-04-28 Thread Mike Palij
On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:23:24 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote: >My take on this is that if some people demand evidence,then prviding >evidence will not hurt. I think you miss the point and did not watch the clip from "The Last Word"; see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVG772L1v_k As Obama mention

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2011-04-27 Thread michael sylvester
My take on this is that if some people demand evidence,then prviding evidence will not hurt.The Donald perpective reminds me of Ronald Reagan's TRUST BUT VERIFY. I am more concerned about people who doubt the holocaust . Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are

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2011-04-27 Thread Mike Palij
I'm sure that it will only be a little while before a video clip from Lawrence O'Donnell's show "The Last Word" goes viral, showing what happens when a true believer is asked about President Obama's birth certificate which became publicly available today. What happens when those who believe, lik