RE: [tips] University College of London Facebook study
Wonder what it means that I regularly pare my "friend" list.
Of course, I also drink martinis from time to time, so there may be a
confound
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 12:24 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Cc: Mike Palij
> Subject: Re: [tips] University College of London Facebook study
>
> The story was all over the place a couple of days ago and I thought
> about posting to TiPS about it but it struck me as being just another
> rank piece of pop cog neuroscience.
>
> For one presentation of the research, see:
> http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/10/20/141560380/dont-count-on-
> facebook-boosting-your-brainpower-just-yet
>
> If one takes one interpretation of the results to a logical/absurd
> extreme,
> one might be led to the following statement which is a paraphrase of
> what
> Samuel L. Jackson said in "Pulp Fiction":
>
> "Check out the big brain on Mark Zuckerberg!"
>
> The original research article can be accessed here:
> http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/10/12/rspb.20
> 11.1959
>
> Note the title: "Online social network size is reflected in human
> brain structure".
>
> -Mike Palij
> New York University
> m...@nyu.edu
>
>
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:06:58 -0700, michael sylvester wrote:
> > A TV station in my area has segment on research findings
> periodically..I
> >assume that Googling would help.Apparently it was a positive
> correlation-more
> >friends on Facebook,more gray matter. and enhanced memory.
>
> - Original Message -
> On Friday, October 21, 2011 11:16 AM, Michael Britt wrote:
> > Hmm...sounds interesting. Got a link? I'm always interested in
> what the
> >"Britts" are doing
>
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, michael sylvester wrote:
> The Brits are reporting that they have found a correlation between
> the
> amount of friends that one has on facebook and the amount of gray
> matter in the
> brain.
>
>
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RE: [tips] Any Tipsters Planning On Being Raptured Today?
Wait, wait. I thought it was the coming of the *raptor*. I brought my birding
binocs and everything...
Shoot.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:29 PM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
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> Subject: [tips] Any Tipsters Planning On Being Raptured Today?
>
> Remember when Harold Camping predicted the Rapture back
> in May of this year? When it didn't happened, a scheduling error
> was discovered and the "real" rapture is supposed to occur today,
> October 21, 2011. So, are there any Tipsters preparing for their
> big move upward while the rest of us spend the rest of our wretched
> little lives here on earth?
>
> If so, there is still time for you to sign over all of your property,
> assets,
> and money to me since you won't have any need for them where you're
> going.
>
> Please, no old textbooks or journals -- cash preferred. ;-)
>
> -Mike Palij
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[tips] Re: [tips] Any Tipsters Planning On Being Raptured Today?
Well that explains it! ... i am in Phoenix AZ today for the National Collegiate Honors Council annual meetings. Its 90 degrees F, sunny, great food, palm trees, nice swimming pool, pool bar . i am in a state of rapture :-) John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Coordinator, University Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 Sent from my U.S. Cellular Android device - Reply message - From: "Mike Palij" Date: Fri, Oct 21, 2011 9:29 pm Subject: [tips] Any Tipsters Planning On Being Raptured Today? To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Cc: "Mike Palij" Remember when Harold Camping predicted the Rapture back in May of this year? When it didn't happened, a scheduling error was discovered and the "real" rapture is supposed to occur today, October 21, 2011. So, are there any Tipsters preparing for their big move upward while the rest of us spend the rest of our wretched little lives here on earth? If so, there is still time for you to sign over all of your property, assets, and money to me since you won't have any need for them where you're going. Please, no old textbooks or journals -- cash preferred. ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: ku...@mail.plymouth.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66454&n=T&l=tips&o=13573 or send a blank email to leave-13573-13338.f659d005276678c0696b7f6beda66...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13575 or send a blank email to leave-13575-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] University College of London Facebook study
The story was all over the place a couple of days ago and I thought about posting to TiPS about it but it struck me as being just another rank piece of pop cog neuroscience. For one presentation of the research, see: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/10/20/141560380/dont-count-on-facebook-boosting-your-brainpower-just-yet If one takes one interpretation of the results to a logical/absurd extreme, one might be led to the following statement which is a paraphrase of what Samuel L. Jackson said in "Pulp Fiction": "Check out the big brain on Mark Zuckerberg!" The original research article can be accessed here: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2011/10/12/rspb.2011.1959 Note the title: "Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure". -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:06:58 -0700, michael sylvester wrote: > A TV station in my area has segment on research findings periodically..I >assume that Googling would help.Apparently it was a positive correlation-more >friends on Facebook,more gray matter. and enhanced memory. - Original Message - On Friday, October 21, 2011 11:16 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > Hmm...sounds interesting. Got a link? I'm always interested in what the >"Britts" are doing On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, michael sylvester wrote: The Brits are reporting that they have found a correlation between the amount of friends that one has on facebook and the amount of gray matter in the brain. --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13574 or send a blank email to leave-13574-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Any Tipsters Planning On Being Raptured Today?
Remember when Harold Camping predicted the Rapture back in May of this year? When it didn't happened, a scheduling error was discovered and the "real" rapture is supposed to occur today, October 21, 2011. So, are there any Tipsters preparing for their big move upward while the rest of us spend the rest of our wretched little lives here on earth? If so, there is still time for you to sign over all of your property, assets, and money to me since you won't have any need for them where you're going. Please, no old textbooks or journals -- cash preferred. ;-) -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=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13573 or send a blank email to leave-13573-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] University College of London Facebook study
A TV station in my area has segment on research findings periodically..I assume that Googling would help.Apparently it was a positive correlation-more friends on Facebook,more gray matter. and enhanced memory. Michael - Original Message - From: Michael Britt To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 11:16 AM Subject: Re: [tips] University College of London Facebook study Hmm...sounds interesting. Got a link? I'm always interested in what the "Britts" are doing Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, michael sylvester wrote: The Brits are reporting that they have found a correlation between the amount of friends that one has on facebook and the amount of gray matter in the brain. Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=13567 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-13567-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: msylves...@copper.net. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587541&n=T&l=tips&o=13569 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-13569-13424.eb17e1c03643c971ab35c22d86587...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13572 or send a blank email to leave-13572-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] University College of London Facebook study
Hmm...sounds interesting. Got a link? I'm always interested in what the "Britts" are doing Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Oct 21, 2011, at 11:07 AM, michael sylvester wrote: > > > > > > > > > The Brits are reporting that they have found a correlation between the amount > of friends that one has on facebook and the amount of gray matter in the > brain. > Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD > Daytona Beach,Florida > > --- > > You are currently subscribed to tips as: michael.br...@thepsychfiles.com. > > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958f69&n=T&l=tips&o=13567 > > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > > or send a blank email to > leave-13567-13405.0125141592fa9ededc665c55d9958...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13569 or send a blank email to leave-13569-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Theories of addiction
On Fri, 21 Oct 2011, Brandon, Paul K went: Personally, I have always thought that the concept of 'addiction' as a monolithic entity was a consequence of its medicalization; that there is such a thing as a 'disease' called 'addiction'. If instead we look at addiction as a behavior pattern, we should apply the basic principle that the same effect can have different causes. But the natural categories of addiction may or may not correspond to the classes of substances to which people get addicted. --David Epstein da...@neverdave.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13568 or send a blank email to leave-13568-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] University College of London Facebook study
The Brits are reporting that they have found a correlation between the amount of friends that one has on facebook and the amount of gray matter in the brain. 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=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13567 or send a blank email to leave-13567-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Theories of addiction
Hi, Ed-- I'm aware of this. But while the medical profession talks professionally about cancers (knowing that it refers to a broad category of diseases with many varied causes), when they're trying to raise money they simplify it and talk about a 'war against cancer'. Talking about it as A disease makes it easier to sell. There's a difference between the medical literature and 'medicalization'. which is a PR/guild battle. Same thing with addiction. On Oct 21, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Pollak, Edward (Retired) wrote: Brandon, Paul K wrote, How could one say that the differences DON'T matter? Personally, I have always thought that the concept of 'addiction' as a monolithic entity was a consequence of its medicalization; that there is such a thing as a 'disease' called 'addiction'. If instead we look at addiction as a behavior pattern, we should apply the basic principle that the same effect can have different causes." There's nothing in "medicalization" that would make one see a disease (or problematic behavior) as a "monolithic entity." Many (most?) medical diseases have multiple causes. genetic, environmental, developmental, traumatic, etc, And there could easily be a common link among all addictions (e.g., DA transport molecules) and still have dramatically different characteristics of other facets of the disease(s). e.g., Diabetes mellitus has a common feature of high blood glucose & (real or functional) lack of adequate insulin but the causes & clinical pictures of type I & type II diabetes are quite different. And have we, for many years, recognized that depression may be viewed as a "final common path" resulting from any number of factors or combinations of factors. Ed --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=13566 or send a blank email to leave-13566-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
