RE: [tips] Optimal Arousal Activity

I can't help with arousal but someplace I have the Velten mood induction statements if that would work for something similar. Let me know and I'll send it. My only caution is that the sad mood induction can make some folks really sort of, well, sad. So you want to make them happy again afterward

Re: [tips] Science, in song...

Thank you, Chris! "Sounds of science" provided me with my first good laugh of the day -- and it's getting late in the evening. --Dave Campbell - Original Message - From: chri...@yorku.ca To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Friday, October 8, 2010 10:25:16 AM G

[tips] Apologies for my post on Harlow

Wow, I was trying to get that post in before a class so made a number of blatant mistakes--cited an article that had a clear bias only because it was easily accessible (sorry); referred to Harlow and Bowlby as friends when I knew better that they were likely simply colleagues; quoted the cited ar

Re: [tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

I agree with Marc Carter's comment that perhaps we don't attract career-oriented individuals and that perhaps many students just kind of wander into psychology because - thanks to stereotypes about the field - it doesn't sound like it's too hard. Still, this is one frustrating thing about our f

Re: [tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

Marc Carter wrote: > > > > Considering that at other places I've worked (excepting here) psych is > by far the largest major, I'm not surprised. It's not like we > typically attract intensely career-oriented students all that often. > Most (again, at other places I've worked) sort of wander

Re: [tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

Just off hand, I'd say we're in for a fall. 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/ == Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: > > > > > Hi All - F

re: [tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:27:55 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: >Hi All - From today's Wall Street Journal: > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704011904575538561813341020.html > Quoting from the article: |Undergraduate psychology majors who don't go to graduate school |tend to move

[tips] Optimal Arousal Activity

Hello, I'm looking for a classroom hands-on activity or demonstration related to optimal arousal theory. I'd like something where we can manipulate arousal and watch performance change. Anyone have any good suggestions? We'll also be talking about drive - in the context of Hullian theory - a

RE: [tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

Considering that at other places I've worked (excepting here) psych is by far the largest major, I'm not surprised. It's not like we typically attract intensely career-oriented students all that often. Most (again, at other places I've worked) sort of wander into psych because, as one student

[tips] dissatisfaction among psychology majors

Hi All - From today's Wall Street Journal: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704011904575538561813341020.html Scott This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and p

RE: [tips] facial communication

Joann I remembered one of the introductory texts I used (Coon's Introduction to Psychology - Gateways to Mind and Behavior) and believe you may be referring to illustrators (gestures people make when they are talking), emblems (gestures with widely understood meaning (referring to research by E

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[tips] Paladino applauded by Orthodox jews

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Re: [tips] facial communication

facial communicationFacial calisthenics. Michael - Original Message - From: DeVolder Carol L To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 3:51 PM Subject: [tips] facial communication Some years ago (decades, actually), I remember hav

[tips] Archives Search

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RE: [SPAM] Re: [tips] facial communication

The context, if I remember the conversation correctly, was that the professor was saying how uncomfortable people become if we don't react in any way to what they are saying. For that reason, I don't think it's microexpressions, but rather something than can be suppressed. I believe he was telling

RE: [tips] facial communication

Would you be thinking of Paul Elman's "microexpressions" expression used to detect when a person might be constructing a story or lie? Joann Jelly From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 10:56 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subj

Re: [tips] facial communication

I'd think that smiling, nodding, raising brows, etc., would be more obvious than microexpressions, which reportedly occur at 1/15th to 1/25th of a second. Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To uns

RE: [tips] facial communication

micro-expressions? See Ekman's work. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D. Professor, Psychological Sciences University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu From: Beth Benoit [beth.ben...@gmail.com]

re: [tips] facial communication

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:52:02 -0700, Carol L DeVolder wrote: >Some years ago (decades, actually), I remember having a conversation >with a social psychology professor regarding the importance of verbal >and nonverbal affirmation during dyadic conversations. Smiling, nodding, >raising brows, and so o

Re: [tips] facial communication

Nonverbal attending? Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:51 PM, DeVolder Carol L wrote: > > > Some years ago (decades, actually), I remember having a conversation with a > social psychology professor regarding the importance of verb

Re: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

My understanding is that he was not fired from his employment with the institution, he was just fired as an administrator. With faculty status and tenure, he returns to his home department. If he disagrees with the direction of the administration so profoundly and is unable to effectively argue f

[tips] facial communication

Some years ago (decades, actually), I remember having a conversation with a social psychology professor regarding the importance of verbal and nonverbal affirmation during dyadic conversations. Smiling, nodding, raising brows, and so on. I can NOT remember what those important little behaviors are

Re: [tips] Freud's case histories

Mike Smith asks of Freud's work: >E.g. the glove aneasthesia case so often referred to in intro >psych was innacurate? hyped? made up? or fairly accurate. >If this is one of those destroyed cases, given the apparantly >systematic alterations to suit his theories, what do the historians >think about

Re: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

Shows you the illusory nature of "rights"and I wonder how weak the rights are of an individual professor are. I guess it still, and always will come down to whoever has the greater force is the one who makes the rules and decides the "rights" of everyone else. The "constitution" of countries

RE: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

I guess, but irrespective of where the school gets its funding, it's not a part of the government, is it? It can't do pretty much any of the things that a government does, it seems to me. But I see your point. There's a state department of education that in some ways has oversight of state s

RE: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

You'd think wouldn't you, but it gets all mixed up when your employer is a state school. Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Box 3055 x7295 rfro...@jbu.edu http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman Proverbs 14:15 "A simple man believes anything, but a prudent man gives thou

RE: [tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

I never would have thought that the first amendment would apply in cases like this. The Bill of Rights is a constraint on Government, not a constraint on employers m -- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University --

[tips] Deans Can't Count on First Amendment

Occasionally we have had discussions of the scope of academic freedom and even First Amendment rights when it comes to publicly criticizing the administration of one's institution. Some have expressed the opinion that the scope of these principles is very wide. I have usually maintained that th

Re: [tips] behavioral dilemma

I don't go for the germs theory either. In Canada (at least for the 3D movies) the glasses are in plastic pouches, giving at least the illusion of germ free :-) Personally I would postulate the "I don't want to disturb the symmetry" theory. I've noticed that many people are a bit hesitant to actu

[tips] small grants call for proposals

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR INSTITUTIONAL COLLABORATION GRANTS The Society for the Teaching of Psychology (Division 2 of APA) is pleased to announce a program of small grants to provide support to develop partnerships across teaching institutions. The goal of the program is to promote communicatio

Re: [tips] Freud's case histories

Very interesting to read your two posts. I haven't looked into Freud really at all, so this is news to me. Was the VAST majority of his published stuff (and the theories of his system) doctored and (at times completely made up)? E.g. the glove aneasthesia case so often referred to in intro psych

Re:[tips] Freud's case histories

A postscript to my previous posting. TIPSters who click the link to Amazon http://tinyurl.com/25nrvc will find a misleading "Product Description" of my book *Seductive Mirage*. It ends: "… And if even that is now more frequently questioned, we are at least left with the consolation that Freud,

[tips] Freud's case notes

Gary Peterson wrote in passing: >How should such accounts differ from the tainted kinds >of case notes said to typify Freud's writing? There is concrete evidence that Freud's case notes were tainted. As students of Freud's life will know, on at least two occasions he "destroyed all his manuscrip