Yes. Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Department of Psychology, Room 473 36 Eagle Row Emory University Atlanta, Georgia 30322 slil...@emory.edu
P.S. Trying to win Mike S.'s new award for "Most Succinct TIPSTER of the Year." -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 12:00 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: RE: [tips] The NYT Reviews "Lucy", The Film Scarlett Johansson Goes From Using 10% of Her Brain To Slightly More... On Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:11:31 -0700, William Scott wrote: >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-percen >>t-of-their-brains/ >-------------------- > >Do we need to de-bunk all of the scientific hokum that students see in >movies? If Scott Lilienfeld is back from vacation, I'll let him answer this. >Here's a Scientific American site essay on how we should expose more >students to radioactive spiders in order to give them super-powers. Hey! No fair using NYU faculty in rebuttals! See: http://www.psych.nyu.edu/skaufman/ >I was going to add the adjective "metaphorically" in the previous >sentence but current usage might allow me to use "literally". > > http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/2013/09/09/why-edu > cation-needs-more-radioactive-spiders/ Methinks that perhaps Dr. Kaufman has read too many comics in his youth and young adulthood (it is possible that he still reads them but I digress). But the Spiderman reference provides the necessary hook to get a reader to read an article/blog entry (because so many people have read the comic books and saw the movies) instead of the somewhat more accurate title "valuing people and increasing self-esteem". I just wonder if someone has written a Scientific American blog entry or elsewhere on "Why you are psychic like Professor Xavier" written either by Daryl Bem or one of his PSI promoters. One might want to say "you mean figuratively, right" but it would be more correct to say "you mean literally, right? You really do believe this stuff?" It's always a good idea to think about whether one is being metaphorical or literal and the consequences of each. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: slil...@emory.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2f&n=T&l=tips&o=37699 or send a blank email to leave-37699-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=37701 or send a blank email to leave-37701-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
