[tips] summer reading
I cannot remember if we had posts on summer reading .. but these two are on my coffee table: The Social Animal by David Brooks (Conservative writer and NY Times columnist). He follows the lives of hypothetical people Harold and Erica to put a human face on evolutionary psych findings. I didn't think I'd like the Harold/Erica angle but so far its ok. Quiet by Susan Cain, about Introverts .. actually its on my iPad. This is my test case to see if I can actually read books on the iPad. I mean, I am just a few thumb strokes away from video games and the internet . == John W. Kulig, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Coordinator, University Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 == --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=18459 or send a blank email to leave-18459-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Summer Reading 2012
I've already got a bunch of reading to do this summer but I came across a book review that may add another book to the list. In the spring 2012 issue of the Journal of American Psychology Joachim Krueger of Brown U reviews everyone's favorite academic psychologist Marty Seligman's new book Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being. There is good new and bad news: The good news is Marty is giving up on using the term happiness. Quoting Krueger quoting Seligman: |In Flourish he writes that he “detest[s] the word happiness, which |is so overused that it is almost meaningless. It is an unworkable term for |science” (p. 10). The departure from the happiness model lies in the |abandonment of the idea that there is a single underlying dimension |along which individuals can be lined up. Well, so much for authentic happiness. The bad news is that Marty is working with the U.S. military. Quoting Kreuger: |In 2008, at a “Seligman Lunch” at the Pentagon, he is told, |“We have read your books, and we want to know what you |suggest for the army” (p. 126). The chief of staff of the Army, |“the legendary George Casey,” announces that “Dr. Seligman |here is the world’s expert on resilience, and he’s going to tell |us how we are going to do it,” that is, how “resilience will be |taught and measured throughout the United States Army.” |Casey also says, “Dr. Seligman, Comprehensive Soldier |Fitness began two months ago. It is under General Cornum’s |command” (p. 128). And, Casey continues, “General Cornum, |I want you and Marty [Marty!] to put your heads together, put flesh |on the skeleton of Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, and report |back to me in sixty days” (p. 129; brackets in the original). |In short, Seligman has to scramble to catch up with the Army |empirically, theoretically, and ideologically. He does nothing |to defuse the impression that his revised theory of well-being |is a response to what the Army had already chosen for him to do. |Says Cornum, “If we had waited [for the science to catch up], |we’d still be talking and planning” (Azar, 2011, p. 32). . Finally, there is this to recommend the book: |Flourish is also a very personal book. I suspect that there is |more candor than the author intended. Throughout the book, |Seligman makes his claim that he is a very, very important |psychologist. If you missed the note on how he was elected |president of the American Psychological Association by the widest |margin of votes ever, [NOTE: This make Marty the most popular academic psychologist] |he reminds you of it in the biographical blurb in the back. At the |same time, he confesses to having self-doubts and fears of being a |failure. Happiness theory has not worked for him, it seems. Krueger makes the argument that proponents of, say, a happiness position in psychology are under pressure to be significantly happier than others because, if they are right, they *SHOULD* be happier. Your run of the mill ordinary psychologist doesn't have to pretend to be happy. Or even likable. There's also some gossip in the review but I'll leave that for the interested reader. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. If one were to play such a game, who would one nominate as the world's most powerful living psychologist? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=17667 or send a blank email to leave-17667-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Summer Reading 2012
P.S. If one were to play such a game, who would one nominate as the world's most powerful living psychologist? Maybe Daniel Khaneman ? On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. If one were to play such a game, who would one nominate as the world's most powerful living psychologist? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: dhogb...@albion.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c7628en=Tl=tipso=17667 or send a blank email to leave-17667-13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c76...@fsulist.frostburg.edu -- David K. Hogberg, PhD Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Department of Psychological Science Albion College Albion MI 49224 Tel: 517/629-4834 (Home and mobile) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=17668 or send a blank email to leave-17668-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Summer Reading 2012
Without a doubt, Dr. Phil alas. Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-05-06, at 7:54 PM, David Hogberg wrote: P.S. If one were to play such a game, who would one nominate as the world's most powerful living psychologist? Maybe Daniel Khaneman ? On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote: -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. If one were to play such a game, who would one nominate as the world's most powerful living psychologist? --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: dhogb...@albion.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c7628en=Tl=tipso=17667 or send a blank email to leave-17667-13152.d92d7ec47187a662aacda2d4b4c76...@fsulist.frostburg.edu -- David K. Hogberg, PhD Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Department of Psychological Science Albion College Albion MI 49224 Tel: 517/629-4834 (Home and mobile) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: chri...@yorku.ca. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92n=Tl=tipso=17668 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-17668-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@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=17670 or send a blank email to leave-17670-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Summer reading
Mike Palij recommended the following: (1) The Steig Larson Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- I have the first two and Amazon will deliver the third when it is released on May 25. I highly second this recommendation for pleasure reading. I have read the first two and immensely enjoyed them. My daughter has gotten the third one from England and is giving it to me for my birthday. I am anxiously waiting (luckily only a week more). A good way to decompress from the end of the semester. Jeff Nagelbush nagel...@hotmail.com Ferris State University _ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5n=Tl=tipso=2308 or send a blank email to leave-2308-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
RE: [tips] Summer reading
Yes the third book (in British) has been coveted and circling around my group of friends. I read all 3 a couple of years ago (in Danish - they got translated to other European language several years earlier). The 3 movies are also quite good. They are available in the US (subtitled) now but in very limited circulation (in a few major cities). I heard that SONY bought the film rights to so they can remake them (I guess US audiences will not want to watch the Swedish actors and read subtitles). Marie Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013, office (717) 245-1562, fax (717) 245-1971 Office hours: Mon Wed 2-3:30 http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html From: Jeffrey Nagelbush [mailto:nagel...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 10:08 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Summer reading Mike Palij recommended the following: (1) The Steig Larson Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- I have the first two and Amazon will deliver the third when it is released on May 25. I highly second this recommendation for pleasure reading. I have read the first two and immensely enjoyed them. My daughter has gotten the third one from England and is giving it to me for my birthday. I am anxiously waiting (luckily only a week more). A good way to decompress from the end of the semester. Jeff Nagelbush nagel...@hotmail.com Ferris State University The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. Get started.http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: helw...@dickinson.edumailto:helw...@dickinson.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a4468797fn=Tl=tipso=2308 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-2308-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@fsulist.frostburg.edumailto:leave-2308-13234.b0e864a6eccfc779c8119f5a44687...@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=2311 or send a blank email to leave-2311-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
[tips] Summer reading
So all of these book discusions have me thinking that it's time to start making up my summer reading list. I always find it bewildering because I can only budget so much time and so much money towards summer reading and so I try to pick carefully and then I usually wonder if I picked right. It is almost as traumatic for me every summer, as buying a new car is every 10-15 years. I get my list from tipsters and others and try to read all the reviews I can find so I allocate my precious resources of time and money to the best books, and never quite know if I did it right. Sigh. So, with that said, what has anyone read recently that they would highly recommend and that they enjoyed? The Myth of Sanity The Trauma Myth Ok, what else? I am looking for both junk food for my mind as well as nutritious stuff. Last summer I read Derek Bok's Our UnderAchieving Colleges and think it was the best of all books I read last summer. I'm planning to reread the Bransford et al book on How People Learn. Over the year I plowed my way through the entire series of Constable Evans books by Rhys Bowen. I actually contacted the author to see when the next book might come out in the series but she emailed back that her publisher has put the series on hold because it might be picked up for TV in Britain. Sigh. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.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=2294 or send a blank email to leave-2294-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
re:[tips] Summer reading
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:05:02 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: [snip] I am looking for both junk food for my mind as well as nutritious stuff. For fun I'm going to try to get in the following: (1) The Steig Larson Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- I have the first two and Amazon will deliver the third when it is released on May 25. (2) David Peace's Tokyo Year Zero; see: http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vintage-Crime-Black-Lizard/dp/0307276503/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1272496641sr=1-5 David Peace is the author of the Red Riding Quartet which are four novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire -- The Quartet was made into three movies that were recently released in the U.S. For more on David Peace, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace and http://www.playbackstl.com/movie-reviews/9503-red-riding-trilogy-ifc-films-r I have a stack of books on decision-making that I intend to get to as well as re-watching a bunch of world cinema. -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=2296 or send a blank email to leave-2296-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
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I'm enjoying Dacher Keltner's 'Born to be Good.' From: Mike Palij [m...@nyu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 7:37 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: re:[tips] Summer reading On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:05:02 -0700, Annette Taylor wrote: [snip] I am looking for both junk food for my mind as well as nutritious stuff. For fun I'm going to try to get in the following: (1) The Steig Larson Trilogy of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -- I have the first two and Amazon will deliver the third when it is released on May 25. (2) David Peace's Tokyo Year Zero; see: http://www.amazon.com/Tokyo-Vintage-Crime-Black-Lizard/dp/0307276503/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1272496641sr=1-5 David Peace is the author of the Red Riding Quartet which are four novels about crime and corruption in Yorkshire -- The Quartet was made into three movies that were recently released in the U.S. For more on David Peace, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Peace and http://www.playbackstl.com/movie-reviews/9503-red-riding-trilogy-ifc-films-r I have a stack of books on decision-making that I intend to get to as well as re-watching a bunch of world cinema. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: mbour...@fgcu.edu. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13390.2bbc1cc8fd0e5f9e0b91f01828c87814n=Tl=tipso=2296 or send a blank email to leave-2296-13390.2bbc1cc8fd0e5f9e0b91f01828c87...@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=2297 or send a blank email to leave-2297-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
Re: [tips] Summer reading
http://www.squidoo.com/talent-code-book-review Highly recommend The Talent Code, by Coyle. He has traveled all over the world to ten so-called hot spots, that are producing extraordinary numbers of prodigies--not born but made by the way they are taught and the manner in which they practice. His observations of John Wooden's style of coaching his UCLA basketball players are particularly fascinating by vividly clarifying why he was able to produce winning basketball teams year after year. One of the keys is naturally the development of extensive neural networks but the surprise . . . well, why give it away? If any would like to read the first chapter, click below. http://thetalentcode.com/excerpt/ There's a deep but not surprising irony in that Coyle's discoveries support much of the work of Skinner on operant conditioning and shaping and yet he dismisses Skinner out of hand as one of those mechanical behaviorists. Is that ever going to change?! Joan Joan Warmbold Boggs Professor of Psychology Oakton Community 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=2301 or send a blank email to leave-2301-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
