Re:[tips] King George V1 and stuttering

2010-12-20 Thread Allen Esterson
Michael Sylvester writes on stuttering: …With the newly released film (which I have not seen) The King's Speech, he should probably hesitate on criticisms of some British associations. King George V1 is also mentioned by the BSA as does Somerset Maughan (sp). The new film on King George VI and

[tips] lunar eclipse tonight on this side of the pond

2010-12-20 Thread Beth Benoit
http://abcnews.go.com/US/lunar-eclipse-december-2010/story?id=12434926 Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

[tips] Dollars For Docs

2010-12-20 Thread Mike Palij
An article on the www.medscape.com website presents information about a new database Dollars for Docs on the ProPublica website which identifies individual physicians and how much money they have received from the pharmaceutical companies, often for giving lectures in professional education

RE: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases

2010-12-20 Thread Annette Taylor
Although this is interesting, I think that I would be more interested in having them provide a search box in which I can fill out criteria, as some other websites do, such as 2-syllable nouns and ask them to list the 100 most and least frequent. I don't see a way to do this; do any of you see

RE: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases

2010-12-20 Thread Jim Clark
Hi The google database does not lend itself to item selection in the way described by Annette as do numerous other smaller datasets. I think it is perhaps primarily useful for seeing the historical use over time of different terms. Entering repressed memory, recovered memory, false memory,

[tips] Neurobabble

2010-12-20 Thread don allen
If you haven't already seen it, there is an interesting (to me at least) article in today's NY Times entitled, A Real Science of Mind by Tyler Burge. It talks about the misuse of fMRI data and makes some good points about Psychology's real successes in understanding how the mind works. It

RE: [tips] Neurobabble

2010-12-20 Thread Annette Taylor
LOL! I never knew about the John Cleese podcast videos. Very funny stuff linked from that NY Times piece. Definitely something to embed in my biopsych lecture slides in intro! Annette ps: Oh, and the target article is quite good, as well! Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor,

[tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!

2010-12-20 Thread Mike Palij
So, I got my review copy of Douglas Whitman's Cognition textbook today (ominously, it's identified as First Edition) and I was skimming through the chapters. There is a chapter on consciousness (another bad sign) and what did I behold? A subsection labelled Conscousness Is the Tip of the

Re: [tips] Neurobabble

2010-12-20 Thread Beth Benoit
The red boxing glove that came out at the end of the Cleese video reminded me of Miss Sweety Poo in the IgNobel Awards. (Please stop! I'm BORED!) Funny stuff. I suspect that the gene for finding that clip funny ishe-yuh. (Feeble attempt at a phonetic translation of a British accent

[tips] From 'black white' to 'color'

2010-12-20 Thread michael sylvester
Are there any issues involved when perceptual stimuli are converted to color?I am thinking of the Rorschach (sp) projective tests that were originally in b w but now the so-called ink blots come in all different colors.And I guess the TAT migfht have gone through similar changes.And while

RE: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!

2010-12-20 Thread Annette Taylor
More likely a sign of a particular author's lack of knowledge about this bit of unsupported information--as is other information attributed to Freud :( Of course, the little iceberg group that formed as an off-shoot of tipsters interested in this topic never published anything that I am aware

Re: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!

2010-12-20 Thread michael sylvester
And my heart will go on Michael - Original Message - From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 9:14 PM Subject: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead! So, I got my

[tips] Did Anyone Attend This Evening's Secession Ball?

2010-12-20 Thread Mike Palij
Charleston, South Carolina, Hello! How better to remember the 150th anniversary of South Carolina's secession from the U.S. then to hold a Secession Ball! Here's a USA Today news story on the joyful activities:

RE: [tips] From 'black white' to 'color'

2010-12-20 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
Huh? The beloved Rorschach inkblots haven't changed since they were publlished in 1921, and they were not all in black and white - half have always (for the last 8 decades) contained at least some color, with some entirely in color. The TAT cards have similarly not undergone any changes