Mike, Never heard of him. Thankfully, from what I can gather. Sorry I can’t be more helpful. Chris ….. Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 43.773895°, -79.503670°
chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo ………………………………... On Nov 16, 2016, at 8:48 AM, Mike Palij <m...@nyu.edu> wrote: > I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in > because of former students sending me invites) and though I > have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are > some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in > the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). > One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much > time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. > There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad > The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian > colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named > Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) > https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 > and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an > endowed chair which always raises questions). > > Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that > early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive > psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of > the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets > before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson > was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears > to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and > consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises > certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal > "Intelligence". ;-) > > These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank > God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV > shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to > become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being > an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian > Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC > (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron. > > So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are > familiar with him? You can contact me off-list if you like but > I would appreciate a public discussion if possible. > > Send me something. > > -Mike Palij > New York University > m...@nyu.edu > > P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the > same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students > from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown). > To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see > the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at > some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower > East Side: > http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html > I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who > voted to Voldemort. > > .P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"? > You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas > though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor". > Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post > can be accessed here: > https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83 > NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave > from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see > the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and: > https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html > So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty > member? He got a promotion; see: > http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/ > Damn! Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-) > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=49914 > or send a blank email to > leave-49914-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=49915 or send a blank email to leave-49915-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
