Thanks, and yikes. (Yikes on the Fox 25 interview claiming that national health care leaves countries vulnerable to terrorism.) I agree that this would be a good clip to have students in social psych consider.
I'm new to this list serve-very lively! Thanks. I will be teaching social psych and a senior thesis class this fall. Have others on this list read Drew Westen's book "The Political Brain"? In it he talks about how good the political right in the US is at using emotional appeals, and how the left fails when it uses exclusively rational appeals. (At least that is my interpretation of one aspect of the book.) The health care debate seems to exemplify this. It puzzles me that the administration and advocates for health care reform do not use the many possible emotional appeals that would be available. Any thoughts on this? Alice Alice LoCicero, Ph.D., ABPP, MBA, Associate Professor and Chair, Social Science Endicott College Beverly, MA 01915 978 232 2156 From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:46 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] National Healthcare: a breeding ground for terrorism? - Bad Science Yes, that's right. Fox "News" is now claiming that a universal national healthcare program is a breeding ground for terrorism. http://www.badscience.net/2009/08/national-healthcare-a-breeding-ground-for- terrorism/ Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
