Re:[tips] King George V1 and stuttering
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 his efforts to overcome stuttering is not, of course, revealing anything that hasn’t long been known (except in the details). For someone who has to make public speeches, it is not something easy to conceal. Checking (again) to see if there’s a difference between stuttering and stammering, I was surprised to find this on Wikipedia: “Stuttering is sometimes popularly associated with anxiety but there is actually no such correlation (though as mentioned social anxiety may actually develop in individuals as a result of their stuttering).” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering I think this must refer to the *cause* of stuttering, as it seems likely that anxiety would exacerbate the problem. Psychological explanations for the origins of stuttering seem to have gone out of fashion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering#Causes_of_developmental_stuttering Michael writes: A commentator remarked some genetic basis to stuttering but I am not buying it. I would hope it is not a question of anyone “buying” this, but of examining the evidence. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: michael sylvester msylves...@copper.net Subject:King George V1 and stuttering. Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:43:57 -0200 In an earlier post I mentioned that Darwin was a stutterer according to info I got from the British Stammering Association. Allen Esterson, however, was skeptical of info from self-interest groups like the BSA. 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). As the only Tipster with an extensive background in Speech Pathology and Stuttering,I subscribe preferably to the conditioning and learning theoretical approaches of Wendell Johnson (iowa),Van Riper at Western Michigan,Bringelson (Minnesota) and Yates (Westrn Australia). A commentator remarked some genetic basis to stuttering but I am not buying it. Btw,I will be writing a work titled- OVERCOMING STUTTERING:JOURNEY IN AND JOURNEY OUT. Stay tuned. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7371 or send a blank email to leave-7371-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] lunar eclipse tonight on this side of the pond
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: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7374 or send a blank email to leave-7374-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Dollars For Docs
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 programs (ProPublica is a journalist organization and won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting). For the time period 2009-2010, the physician receiving the most money is an endocrinologist who received $303,558 for his services. However, pscyhiatry is the medical specialty that appears to dominate the database. Quoting fromt he Medscape article: |More psychiatrists are listed in the database than any other kind of |specialist. Of the 384 physicians in the $100,000 group, 116 are |psychiatrists. Leading all psychiatrists was Roueen Rafeyan, MD, in |Chicago, Illinois, who received $203,936 from Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, |Johnson Johnson, and Pfizer, mostly for professional education programs. | |In an interview with Medscape Medical News, Dr. Rafeyan said that |compensation from pharmaceutical companies does not cloud his |clinical judgment at the expense of patients. | |The day I'm influenced by that is the day I'm not fit to practice medicine, |Dr. Rafeyan said. The Medscape article is accesible at the following link but one might be required to register with www.medscape.com to read it. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/731028 Here is a link to the Dollars for Docs section of the ProPublica website: http://www.propublica.org/topic/dollars-for-doctors The database maintained by ProPublica can be accessed on this page and can be used by anyone. Just enter a specific doctor's name to see if he/she is in the database (if so, then the amount received, the company paying, and the service being compensated is provided -- worked for me). Perhaps it should come as no surprise that medical schools and teaching hospitals, though they have policies against receiving compensation from pharmaceutical companies, do a bad job making sure that physicians follow these policies; see: http://www.propublica.org/article/medical-schools-policies-on-faculty-and-drug-company-speaking-circuit -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7375 or send a blank email to leave-7375-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases
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 a way to do it? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:41 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases Google, which has been digitalizing the book collections of the world, has created a database that allows one to examine the frequency with which words appear as well as their frequency overtime. There is a NY Times article on this (which misidentifies Steven Pinker as a linguist; people in the humanities seem perplexed about whether such a database would be of any use to them); see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=a26pagewanted=all There is an article in Science by the people who worked on the database that can be viewed here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644 The Google database can be accessed here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ And data from the database can be downloaded; instructions on how to do this can be found here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=7272 or send a blank email to leave-7272-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7376 or send a blank email to leave-7376-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases
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, for example, reveals interesting pattern across time for the increase and then decrease of these terms, with false memory persisting somewhat longer. And others have mentioned names, like Freud. Given sets of words for some experiment, then it would be possible to show, for example, that one set tends to occur more frequently than another, although even here numerical values are not produced (scores are relative to total number of words in database). It is possible to download the entire database, which would give more flexibility, but the files are huge and it would be necessary to manage the database in some way. Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu 20-Dec-10 11:06 AM 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 a way to do it? Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 4:41 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] The Mother Of All Word Frequency Databases Google, which has been digitalizing the book collections of the world, has created a database that allows one to examine the frequency with which words appear as well as their frequency overtime. There is a NY Times article on this (which misidentifies Steven Pinker as a linguist; people in the humanities seem perplexed about whether such a database would be of any use to them); see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html?_r=1nl=todaysheadlinesemc=a26pagewanted=all There is an article in Science by the people who worked on the database that can be viewed here: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644 The Google database can be accessed here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/ And data from the database can be downloaded; instructions on how to do this can be found here: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/datasets -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=7272 or send a blank email to leave-7272-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9n=Tl=tipso=7376 or send a blank email to leave-7376-13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a89172...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7377 or send a blank email to leave-7377-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Neurobabble
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 might make a good discussion starter for some of your students The link is: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/?hp Don Allen Retired professor Langara College --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7381 or send a blank email to leave-7381-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Neurobabble
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, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu From: don allen [dap...@shaw.ca] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 1:11 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Neurobabble 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 might make a good discussion starter for some of your students The link is: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/?hp http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/?hp Don Allen Retired professor Langara College --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=7381 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-7381-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-7381-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7382 or send a blank email to leave-7382-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!
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 Iceberg. Quoting from page 332: |Sigmund Freud, proposed an iceberg model of consciousness, |illustrated in Figure 10.2. Fig. 10.2, on page 334, is similar to many other iceberg representations Tipsters may be familiar with but with far more detail to the three levels (i.e., conscious level, preconscious level, and unconscious level). Of course, there is no citation either to Freud or any of the usual suspects. It's almost as though Whitman's saying so was enough to make it true for him. ;-) 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 1925 Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety (pp77-175). Second is 1895 Project for a scientific psychology (page 302). Anyone have a copy handy to check what is on these pages? I thought that intro psych textbooks were abandoning the Freud iceberg and it comes as a surprise that a textbook for an upper level course would use such a figure. Is this a sign of progress in cognitive psychology or another sign of the apocalypse? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7383 or send a blank email to leave-7383-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Neurobabble
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 saying, here. Actually not too different from New Englandese...) Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu wrote: 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, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu -- *From:* don allen [dap...@shaw.ca] *Sent:* Monday, December 20, 2010 1:11 PM *To:* Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) *Subject:* [tips] Neurobabble 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 might make a good discussion starter for some of your students The link is: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/?hp http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/a-real-science-of-mind/?hp Don Allen Retired professor Langara College --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=7381 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-7381-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: beth.ben...@gmail.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aaf72n=Tl=tipso=7382 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-7382-13105.b9b37cdd198e940b73969ea6ba7aa...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7384 or send a blank email to leave-7384-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] From 'black white' to 'color'
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 pondering this issue,are dreams in technicolor more of existential import than dreaming in black and white. Honesrly,I won't be surprised if some future psychology experiments are in 3-D and surround sound. I am curious at how the differeing levels of the independent level would be affected using 3-D qnd surround sound. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7385 or send a blank email to leave-7385-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!
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 of on this topic :( :( Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edumailto:tay...@sandiego.edu From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 3:14 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead! 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 Iceberg. Quoting from page 332: |Sigmund Freud, proposed an iceberg model of consciousness, |illustrated in Figure 10.2. Fig. 10.2, on page 334, is similar to many other iceberg representations Tipsters may be familiar with but with far more detail to the three levels (i.e., conscious level, preconscious level, and unconscious level). Of course, there is no citation either to Freud or any of the usual suspects. It's almost as though Whitman's saying so was enough to make it true for him. ;-) 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 1925 Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety (pp77-175). Second is 1895 Project for a scientific psychology (page 302). Anyone have a copy handy to check what is on these pages? I thought that intro psych textbooks were abandoning the Freud iceberg and it comes as a surprise that a textbook for an upper level course would use such a figure. Is this a sign of progress in cognitive psychology or another sign of the apocalypse? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: tay...@sandiego.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a21b0n=Tl=tipso=7383 or send a blank email to leave-7383-13534.4204dc3a11678c6b1d0be57cfe0a2...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7386 or send a blank email to leave-7386-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Ahoy! Iceberg Ahead!
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 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 Iceberg. Quoting from page 332: |Sigmund Freud, proposed an iceberg model of consciousness, |illustrated in Figure 10.2. Fig. 10.2, on page 334, is similar to many other iceberg representations Tipsters may be familiar with but with far more detail to the three levels (i.e., conscious level, preconscious level, and unconscious level). Of course, there is no citation either to Freud or any of the usual suspects. It's almost as though Whitman's saying so was enough to make it true for him. ;-) 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 1925 Inhibitions, symptoms, and anxiety (pp77-175). Second is 1895 Project for a scientific psychology (page 302). Anyone have a copy handy to check what is on these pages? I thought that intro psych textbooks were abandoning the Freud iceberg and it comes as a surprise that a textbook for an upper level course would use such a figure. Is this a sign of progress in cognitive psychology or another sign of the apocalypse? -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: msylves...@copper.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541n=Tl=tipso=7383 or send a blank email to leave-7383-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.872 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3327 - Release Date: 12/20/10 05:34:00 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7387 or send a blank email to leave-7387-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Did Anyone Attend This Evening's Secession Ball?
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: http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/12/charlestons-succession-ball-a-contentious-start-to-civil-wars-150th-anniversary/135669/1 Here's a quote from the article on what is being celebrated: |War and death is never something to celebrate. But we do |celebrate the courage and the integrity of 170 men who signed |their signatures to the Article of Secession – the courage of |men to do what they think is right. To do what they think is right Here's the website of the organizers of the celebration: http://www.scsecessiongala.org/index.html There is a schedule of events on the website and it doesn't look like they're going to show D.W. Griffith's masterpiece The Birth of a Nation, a film based on the novel The Clansman (sic!) which would seem to be consistent with the spirit of the event. Historically, The Birth of a Nation was a cinematic landmark while being one of perhaps one of the most racist films ever made. The Ku Klux Klan is actually portrayed as the heros in the film. Wikipedia (yadda-yadda) has an entry on the film and here is a quote about the ideology embodied in the film: |The film is controversial due to its interpretation of history. |University of Houston historian Steven Mintz summarizes its message |as follows: Reconstruction was a disaster, blacks could never be |integrated into white society as equals, and the violent actions of |the Ku Klux Klan were justified to reestablish honest government.[15] |The film suggested that the Ku Klux Klan restored order to the |post-war South, which was depicted as endangered by abolitionists, |freedmen, and carpetbagging Republican politicians from the North. |This reflects the so-called Dunning School of historiography.[16] Another quote is worth noting, about the significance of the film: |In 1992 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film |culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant and selected it |for preservation in the National Film Registry. Despite its |controversial story, the film has been praised by film critics such |as Roger Ebert, who said: 'The Birth of a Nation' is not a bad film |because it argues for evil. Like Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will, |it is a great film that argues for evil. To understand how it does so |is to learn a great deal about film, and even something about evil.[21] | |According to a 2002 article in the Los Angeles Times, the film |facilitated the refounding of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.[22] |As late as the 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan continued to use the film |as a recruitment tool. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_a_nation Maybe they'll show it next year. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7388 or send a blank email to leave-7388-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] From 'black white' to 'color'
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 (although many variations of the TAT have been developed). Scott From: michael sylvester [msylves...@copper.net] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 6:24 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] From 'black white' to 'color' 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 pondering this issue,are dreams in technicolor more of existential import than dreaming in black and white. Honesrly,I won't be surprised if some future psychology experiments are in 3-D and surround sound. I am curious at how the differeing levels of the independent level would be affected using 3-D qnd surround sound. Michael omnicentric Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2fn=Tl=tipso=7385 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-7385-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-7385-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=7389 or send a blank email to leave-7389-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
