RE: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!

2010-12-21 Thread Allen Esterson
Mike Palij cites Douglas Whitman’s “Cognition” textbook giving the “consciousness is the tip of the iceberg” analogy: A check of his references shows two entries by Freud, both in Strachey's The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (Hogarth Press). First is the

[tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread roig-reardon
I experience these occasionally, especially when I am driving. Anyone else? http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6914.abstract?etoc Miguel --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

[tips] Young chimps playing Mommy

2010-12-21 Thread Beth Benoit
An article in *Current Biology* describes how young chimps appear to carry sticks in the same way human little girls carry dolls around. This is more than twice as likely to be seen in female chimps. I loved the image of the chimps even playing the airplane game: lying on their backs and

[tips] Assistant Professor Position

2010-12-21 Thread Joel S. Freund
We have an new position for a clinical psychologist. I have attached a copy of the ad that will be out soon. If anyone has questions, send them to me. Joel Joel S. Freund 216 Memorial Hall Department of Psychology

[tips] question re. questionable paper

2010-12-21 Thread Patrick Dolan
Hi folks- thoughts for my colleague's message below? I'm sure this has been discussed before- brining the student in and asking question about it maybe? Thanks! Patrick ** Patrick O. Dolan Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Drew University Madison, NJ 07940 973-408-3558

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread Gerald Peterson
Might this be a good class topic regarding conditioning? It would seem to lend itself to discussion of expectation, suggestion, conditioning. Could we design a study to test the conditioning idea? That is, what might we find and not find to be the case to test whether it follows a

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread William Scott
I suppose signal detection theory might have something to contribute here. I've experienced them, too, mainly in the car where road vibration or radio speaker vibration might set off a false alarm. The BMJ article broke it down by medical specialty/status. Perhaps it occurs more when the

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread Dr. Bob Wildblood
Yes, this happens to me most frequently when I have been driving for a period of time - 1/2 hour or more. Original message Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:56:59 + (UTC) From: roig-rear...@comcast.net Subject: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations? To: Teaching in the Psychological

Re: [tips] question re. questionable paper

2010-12-21 Thread sblack
On 21 Dec 2010 at 10:38, Patrick Dolan wrote: Hi folks- thoughts for my colleague's message below? I'm sure this has been discussed before- brining the student in and asking question about it maybe? A more objective technique that once worked well is to ask the student to bring in

Re: [tips] question re. questionable paper

2010-12-21 Thread Beth Benoit
Patrick, One good way is to bring the student in, and in front of your colleague, write his/her own version of what the paper is about, pertinent points, etc. It can be pretty telling. (I recently concluded that two suspicious papers were indeed, probably written by the students. It's the first

Re: [tips] question re. questionable paper

2010-12-21 Thread Beth Benoit
And also, if the author of the paper turns out to have a different name or initials than the student, ask the student if he/she used someone else's computer, and if so, what is that person's name. That cleared one up for me, when there was clearly a different name. Without telling the student

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread Jim Clark
Hi The effect could be related to several other phenomena in psychology. One is obviously the phantom limb effect and the other is surviving spouse's imaginary hearing of voices and noisy activities of their dead partners. Both of these phenomena, and perhaps the imagined vibrations, can be

[tips] get ready for grade appeals!

2010-12-21 Thread Jim Clark
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[tips] SEXIEST TIPSTER ALIVE

2010-12-21 Thread michael sylvester
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[tips] Erroneous scientific beliefs

2010-12-21 Thread Allen Esterson
The EDGE website has selected contributors providing examples of wrong scientific beliefs that were held for long periods. Several of the contributors are psychologists. The child development psychologist Alison Gopnik has an interesting contribution, including that there is evidence “that

Re: [tips] get ready for grade appeals!

2010-12-21 Thread Blaine Peden
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Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread David Epstein
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010, sbl...@ubishops.ca went: I'm struck by the finding in the BMJ paper that taking the device off vibrate mode stopped the phenomenon in 75% of the cases. This doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a phantom. But a phone which can vibrate may vibrate, even if we don't know why.

Re: [tips] Young chimps playing Mommy

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Brandon
On Dec 21, 2010, at 7:10 AM, Beth Benoit wrote: An article in Current Biology describes how young chimps appear to carry sticks in the same way human little girls carry dolls around. This is more than twice as likely to be seen in female chimps. I loved the image of the chimps even

Re: [tips] Phantom (cell phone) vibrations?

2010-12-21 Thread sblack
I went: I'm struck by the finding in the BMJ paper that taking the device off vibrate mode stopped the phenomenon in 75% of the cases. This doesn't necessarily mean it isn't a phantom. But a phone which can vibrate may vibrate, even if we don't know why. to which David Epstein replied:

Re: [tips] Young chimps playing Mommy

2010-12-21 Thread Joan Warmbold
Fascinating article and thanks so much Beth. And a lot of projection you say Paul? Please, please read the book, _Next of Kin_ by Roger Fouts in which he describes his work with Washoe on sign language. Chimps are extremely bright animals and are as capable of learning through observing and

[tips] Gender based behavior in Men?!

2010-12-21 Thread Joan Warmbold
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eR11SE0RA0feature=player_embedded Hope this is OK Bill as it provides an amusing image of men acting totally against gender stereotypical behaviors and, for that very reason, is so funny, Joan jwarm...@oakton.edu Paul Brandon wrote: On Dec 21, 2010, at

Re: [tips] Young chimps playing Mommy

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Brandon
Joan-- I'm quite aware of Roger Fouts and Washoe (I used to use a movie (remember them?;-) featuring them in my Learning class). The question here is whether in fact the chimps were exhibiting some analog of parenting behavior. Not enough is presented about the context of the behavior to