Re:[tips] Google autocomplete & psychology

2013-11-05 Thread Allen Esterson
m at it, I wish sub-editors (andoccasionally journalists) would not write "our" and "we" asif virtually all of us have such attitudes, as in the Guardian's headline "Google'sautocomplete spells out our darkest thoughts". Allen Este

[tips] Positive Psychology

2013-10-31 Thread Allen Esterson
est here: http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-magic-ratio-that-wasnt/33279 The cited(genuinely scholarly) article on the misuse of mathematics as describedby Nick Brown is here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.7006 http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.7006v1.pdf Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Scie

Re:[tips] Academic Publishers

2013-10-07 Thread Allen Esterson
the charges for accessing papers in academic journals was "exorbitant". Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: Paul C Bernhardt mailto:pcbe

Re:[tips] Academic Publishers

2013-10-07 Thread Allen Esterson
that he does not cite. 2. Since I had taken out a subscription at £2 per week prior to Monbiot's article in 2011 I know it is has not changed! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com ht

Re:[tips] Academic Publishers

2013-10-06 Thread Allen Esterson
ticles,but the basic subscription covering both the Times and Sunday Times (which havedifferent editors and journalists) is £2 per week. (The Sunday Times alonecosts £2.50.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com htt

RE:[tips] Help with British pronunciation

2013-08-02 Thread Allen Esterson
ing is in use in most countries. http://chemistry.about.com/od/elementfacts/a/aluminum.htm Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: rfro...@jbu.edu Subject: R

Re:[tips] Is Anthony Weiner Jewish?

2013-07-27 Thread Allen Esterson
Karl: Isuggest that Michael's question should have been greeted with the silence itdeserved. Of what possible relevance does it have to anything of anyimportance? AllenEsterson Formerlecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -

Re:[tips] tips digest: June 28, 2013

2013-06-29 Thread Allen Esterson
In the context of an Oxford Universitypsychology team's research report Rick Froman wondered if the term"naïveparticipant" was specifically British usage. A Google search shows itoccurs in ADictionary of Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2008 and in The SAGE Handbook of Social Psychology:Conc

Re:[tips] Conspiracy lovers

2013-06-07 Thread Allen Esterson
credentials is wheeled out to explain why such-and-such could not have happenedin the way "they" say it did. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] "Childlessness hits men the hardest" (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Allen Esterson
Rick Froman writes: >As to the snowball technique, it is quite common in qualitative studies >where the “representativeness” of the sample is irrelevant... >All that matters is that you correctly communicate the experience >of those that end up in your sample... and David Epstein: >I want to

Re:[tips] "Childlessness hits men the hardest" (n = 16)

2013-04-08 Thread Allen Esterson
emature pressreleases from universities in the UK and the US publicising unreplicatedstudies without peer-review having, it would seem, as its main purpose thepromotion of the name of the university. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College,

RE:[tips] "Childlessness hits men the hardest" (n = 16)

2013-04-04 Thread Allen Esterson
have written to the British SociologicalAssociation email address given at the end of the report requesting replies tothe following questions: 1. There is no indication of themethodology used. For instance, how were the respondees selected? Were theyself-selected? 2. Has the report beenpeer-review

Re:[tips] Conspiracy theorists

2013-03-13 Thread Allen Esterson
On 12 March2013 Chris Green listed several conspiracy "cannot"s, including thefollowing: >Aminority man cannot have been elected president >by amajority of American voters, therefore... Here'sanother conspiracy theory, this time from the field of science. According tothe PBS website accompanyi

re:[tips] Predatory publishers

2013-02-06 Thread Allen Esterson
or submission,but is payable on acceptance. It's currently $99, and a recent message fromSage in which they reported that the majority of submissions were unsupportedby University or other bodies seemed to indicate that they may hold thepublication fee at that level. Allen Esters

Re:[tips] To British Commonwealth tipsers

2013-01-20 Thread Allen Esterson
/www.ft.com/cms/s/0/468a6760-061a-11e1-ad0e-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2IValZYlA Allen Esterson Formerlecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org.

Re:[tips] to Freud or not to freud?

2013-01-04 Thread Allen Esterson
Hi Carol, There's a critical examination of Freud's theory of jokes here: "Humour andRelease" JohnLippitt http://www.academia.edu/1302861/Humour_and_release Publicationdetails: Humour and release John Lippitt Cogito 9 (2):169-176 (1995) http://philpapers.org/rec/LIP

[tips] The replicability of psychological science

2012-12-26 Thread Allen Esterson
asis for assessing our reproducibility as a field (to find out more, or sign up yourself, visit:http://openscienceframework.org/project/EZcUj/). Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are c

Re:[tips] References For Darwin's Crisis of Faith

2012-12-13 Thread Allen Esterson
eemsto show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father,Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. Andthis is a damnable doctrine. http://tinyurl.com/37ecad Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London all

[tips] Fake reviews on the internet

2012-09-04 Thread Allen Esterson
crime-fiction/ Fake book reviews are rife on the internet and readers should be aware of the "fraudulent" practices of some writers, a group of leading British authors warn tonight. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9518531/RJ-Ellory-fake-book-reviews-are-rife-on-int

[tips] My issue with Allen Esterson

2012-08-26 Thread Allen Esterson
?v=ZO8HI884_zI A sceptical look at the TM organisation: http://www.skepdic.com/tm.html N.B. TM is officially written Transcendental Meditation® (i.e., with a small superscript R in a circle after the name) Is this some kind of patenting of the name for the technique they use? Allen Esterson Former lect

Re:[tips] Tibetan Buddhist scholars

2012-08-26 Thread Allen Esterson
ple like Jon Kabat-Zinn, author of *Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life", and founder of the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness In Medicine, Healthcare and Society: http://www.umassmed.edu/content.aspx?id=41252 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Kabat-Zin

Re:[tips] info on animal research ethics paper or author

2012-08-26 Thread Allen Esterson
hen asked where I stand on the animal research issue, I have taken to responding with Strachan Donnelley's pharase 'the troubled middle.' Granted, the troubled middle is not a comfortable place to be. But, for most of us, neither are the alternatives." Yes indeed! Allen Este

Re:[tips] Math Is Hard! So, Let's Not Teach It?

2012-08-01 Thread Allen Esterson
algebra, but how much should they do, and (more specifically) should all high school students be expected to reach the same basic standard regardless of their proclivities and abilities and their intentions for a future career. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark C

[tips] Plagiarism rife in Europe

2012-07-27 Thread Allen Esterson
27;s blog: Copy, Shake and Paste: http://copy-shake-paste.blogspot.co.uk/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe cl

Re:[tips] What Would Carl Rogers Do?

2012-05-15 Thread Allen Esterson
and challenge it to replace it with something more rational and less self-defeating will have you in and out of therapy before you can say Freud." Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, Lond

[tips] Re: Science and Truth - We’re All in It Tog ether - NYTimes.com

2012-05-07 Thread Allen Esterson
in trying to do so, and the price is that one is caricatured in rather bizarre ways." Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Michael Palij Subjec

Re:[tips] Re: How ECT Works?

2012-03-21 Thread Allen Esterson
it lifted me out of the depths of suicidal despair twice, and enabled me to resume a normal and fulfilling life again." http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/letters/2010/0112/1224262121159.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compu

Re:[tips] How ECT Works?

2012-03-20 Thread Allen Esterson
uld believe something like that. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Paul Brandon Subject:Re: How ECT Works? Date: Mon, 19

Re:[tips] What Will You Do At 3:14pm Today? Have Some Pi?

2012-03-15 Thread Allen Esterson
y) in a curved space doesn’t equal π." http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2010/11/11/the-pi-on/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.

Re:[tips] What Will You Do At 3:14pm Today? Have Some Pi?

2012-03-15 Thread Allen Esterson
nt 3 is the clincher: The area of a unit circle is π. This result is so beautiful that it would be a crime to rewrite it using τ. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com htt

Re:[tips] depression as "crutch"

2012-03-10 Thread Allen Esterson
th Andrews and Thomson's theory, 4 March 2011: Is Major Depression 'Adaptive'? The Clinical Data Say No. Ronald W. Pies http://issuu.com/ubmmedica/docs/psy_jan11 Scroll to pp. 9-11 Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenest

Re:[tips] depression as "crutch"

2012-03-10 Thread Allen Esterson
-adaptation-envoi/ A cogent comment to the latest of Coyne's pieces on his blog: "As a past sufferer of light depression I wonder seriously how anybody could argue that depression promotes analytical thought." Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College,

[tips] Freud's patients

2012-03-04 Thread Allen Esterson
ot Freud, was used by Freud to promote the claims of psychoanalysis, notably in his "Five Lectures on Psychoanalysis" delivered at Clark University in 1910. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freuds-patients-serial Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College,

Re:[tips] False memory strikes again

2012-02-27 Thread Allen Esterson
had never happened" (Hunter 1957, Penguin Books, pp. 160-161.) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: sbl...@ubishops.ca Subject:False memory s

[tips] A cautionary tale on Wikipedia

2012-02-15 Thread Allen Esterson
ely, he could have left the original wording and added some sentences providing an alternative view of the topic. Then the fight could begin on a different footing. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.este

Re:[tips] Group Polarization: Is the Web Making Us More Narrow-Minded

2012-02-14 Thread Allen Esterson
ing of the field of information for the less inquisitive is becoming. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Michael Brit

Re:[tips] amazing chimp

2012-02-11 Thread Allen Esterson
n the above webpage (not obviously a link!) you should get several more clips. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: Mic

Re:[tips] amazing chimp

2012-02-10 Thread Allen Esterson
own solution to the problem by dropping in largish stones to raise the water level, neglecting equally available cork pieces when these were seen to float. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com htt

Re:[tips] The Neuro Times: Dogmas in Neuroscience and Further Thoughts on the Limits of Neurohistory

2012-01-18 Thread Allen Esterson
uch to fresh narratives that supposedly undermine a previously widely held view and gain wide currency. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Christop

Re:[tips] Late Night With [Insert Name Of Favorite Scientist]

2012-01-11 Thread Allen Esterson
r the info, Mike. I was under the impression that in recent times he spent most of his time writing books and enjoying the life of a media superstar. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://

Re:[tips] Late Night With [Insert Name Of Favorite Scientist]

2012-01-11 Thread Allen Esterson
Mike Palij linked to this article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/mit-physicist-gives-scientists-an-online-interview-outlet.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26 The author of the article John Markoff ("senior writer… writes for the paper's sciencesection") describe

Re: [tips] Frank Cioffi obit

2012-01-02 Thread Allen Esterson
a time when it was received opinion that Freud was a man of absolute integrity. After quoting a sentence of Freud's, Cioffi wrote: "I won't say that this statement is a lie, since as we all know, a lie is an interested falsehood propagated by someone not Freud." Allen Este

[tips] Frank Cioffi obit

2012-01-02 Thread Allen Esterson
ychoanalysis proper. He did so in a BBC radio talk, provocatively titled "Was Freud a Liar?", in late 1973, published shortly afterwards (1974) in the BBC magazine "The Listener". Little (if any) notice was taken of his well-documented thesis at the time, but it has since become a cla

Re:[tips] What If The Government Were To Censor Scientific Research Reports?

2011-12-24 Thread Allen Esterson
from the Netherlands scientists, who could accede to the request, or otherwise, dependent on the status of the requesting scientists and subject to appropriate security assurances. I'm sure that won't satisfy Mike, but I'm out of here. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Scienc

Re:[tips] What If The Government Were To Censor Scientific Research

2011-12-23 Thread Allen Esterson
the top." Anyway, I must now turn my mind to the more pressing issue of wrapping Christmas presents, an art I have never been able to master. :-) So a merry Xmas to you all! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@com

Re:[tips] What If The Government Were To Censor Scientific Research Reports?

2011-12-22 Thread Allen Esterson
rnal Nature, to which the relevant paper has been submitted. To make something potentially sinister out of this situation seems to me to be somewhat over the top. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London al

Re:[tips] What If The Government Were To Censor Scientific Research Reports?

2011-12-21 Thread Allen Esterson
without sensitive details about mutation being given,' he said. http://www.asiaone.com/Health/News/Story/A1Story20111213-316022.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -

Re:[tips] Clarification re jews born smart

2011-12-06 Thread Allen Esterson
d only taught mathematics. Your memory is (partly :-) ) vindicated. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- RE: Re:[tips] Clarification re jews born smart Annette

Re:[tips] Clarification re jews born smart

2011-12-06 Thread Allen Esterson
s – at College level some both do and teach.) For the benefit especially of Stephen Black. I checked online, and it is authentic GBS, from an Appendix to "Man and Superman". Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenest

Re:[tips] Thank you Steve Jobs,but ...........

2011-12-05 Thread Allen Esterson
iliated to various strands of Judaism. Given that an appreciable proportion of British Jews are secular, this means that the Chief Rabbi represents somewhat less than half of British Jews. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Jews Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark

Re:[tips] Stapel's faking of social psychology data

2011-11-07 Thread Allen Esterson
gs as vindication of their continuing to actively search for repressed memories of early childhood sexual abuse. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Rick

Re:[tips] Stapel's faking of social psychology data

2011-11-06 Thread Allen Esterson
robust experimental phenomenon in the think/no-think paradigm. http://www.psych.wustl.edu/coglab/publications/bulevich2006.pdf Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: Jim

Re:[tips] Stapel's faking of social psychology data

2011-11-06 Thread Allen Esterson
ploring. Absolutely! An interesting discussion of the issues here: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/rethinking-peer-review And here: "Peer review is like democracy was to Churchill: the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time

Re:[tips] Stapel's faking of social psychology data

2011-11-04 Thread Allen Esterson
. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org From: "Beth Benoit" To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Wednesday, Nove

[tips] Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity

2011-11-01 Thread Allen Esterson
the known functions of the amygdala to encompass socially mediated memory distortions. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click h

[tips] Welles' 'War of the Worlds' 1938 panic story

2011-11-01 Thread Allen Esterson
://mediamythalert.wordpress.com/2010/10/30/why-war-of-the-worlds-show-didnt-panic-america/ Is this news to TIPSters? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch

Re:[tips] Famous people who have taken a (credible) personality test

2011-10-15 Thread Allen Esterson
is absurdity became received 'knowledge' well beyond the world of psychoanalysis. That said, there are plenty of sensible ideas scattered in Murray's report. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, Lond

Re:[tips] What is "talk" therapy?

2011-10-13 Thread Allen Esterson
ommon parlance this is what is understood by "talk therapy", and that the NYT's article title "Talk Therapy Lifts Severe Schizophrenics" may be misleading for many people. On the other hand, I imagine that GPs and psychiatrists regard CBT as a form of talk therapy, as a

[tips] Le Packing for autistic kids

2011-10-07 Thread Allen Esterson
ser/magabrac#p/c/5CC7A73774FAF3F0/2/eHuC2rc7aqY The certitude with which various psychoanalysts propound their unlikely notions in these films is remarkable. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You

Re:[tips] Neutrino no-no

2011-09-26 Thread Allen Esterson
Hot news: The neutrinos experiment has led to the foundation of the Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Particles. :-) http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/16719-einstein-under-fire.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http

Re:[tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-)

2011-09-23 Thread Allen Esterson
cartoon: http://xkcd.com/955/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org [tips] Maybe Bem Is Right ;-) Mike Palij Fri, 23 Sep 2011 07:09:16 -0700 An interesting article

Re:[tips] hurray for Switzerland!

2011-09-22 Thread Allen Esterson
But do they have an equivalent of the Raving Loony Party? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Monster_Raving_Loony_Party http://www.omrlp.com/http://www.omrlp.com/ Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

Re:[tips] intuition = belief in a higher being

2011-09-21 Thread Allen Esterson
ity as the original creator of the universe and nothing more, and those who believe in a deity who/which is concerned with individual human lives. I would say that the former are a lot closer to agnostics than to the latter. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southw

Re:[tips] Statistics question: Death from the skies?

2011-09-21 Thread Allen Esterson
al risk of being hit by a piece of this satellite is far lower: "It's something like one in trillions, for any one person." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44462231/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/falling-satellite-poses-little-risk-public-nasa-says/#.TnmlOzD_l4Y Allen Este

Re:[tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver

2011-09-14 Thread Allen Esterson
bia University, Department of Therapeutics, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the New York State Psychiatric Institute Allen E. -- Re:[tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver Allen Esterson Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:34:40 -070

Re:[tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver

2011-09-14 Thread Allen Esterson
questionable. N.B. A useful discussion of the issues involved appeared in "Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice" in 2003: http://www.srmhp.org/0201/media-watch.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, Lond

Re:[tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver

2011-09-14 Thread Allen Esterson
le:///C:/Users/dell/Documents/C%20Files/MISC%20PSYCHIATRY/Drugs%20and%2 0psychiatry/KleinListening%20to%20Meta-Analysis%20But%20Hearing%20Bias.ht m Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserv

Re:[tips] For Social Psychology: Police Lineups

2011-09-02 Thread Allen Esterson
sult of this case and the resultant publicity? Presumably not, which is why the careful experimental work of academic psychologists, notably Elizabeth Loftus (*Eyewitness Testimony*, 1979), has been needed to get things moving, Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College,

RE:[tips] Research Ethics: Bad Science in Guatemala

2011-08-31 Thread Allen Esterson
h. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_754075.html?_s_icmp=NetworkHeadlines Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Mike Palij Subject:

Re:[tips] Moderating, banning, or filtering?

2011-08-15 Thread Allen Esterson
Reflecting further on Rick's posting, and those of Nancy and Don [all below], I'm beginning to regret that I have been responsible for setting this whole thing going again. I hope we can now leave it alone, and take heed of what Rick wrote. Allen E.

Re:[tips] Moderating, banning, or filtering?

2011-08-15 Thread Allen Esterson
of just how grossly false were assertions in at least a couple of his postings. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: Rick Stevens Subject:

Re:[tips] On apologies,etc

2011-08-15 Thread Allen Esterson
se for his own false assertion about the police blowing a young man's head off.) >The BBC's apology to Darcus Howe is an empty gesture, but >typical of an organization that is famously loath to self-criticism. I'll let the irony of that statement coming from Michael speak for

Re:[tips] African-Americans versus immigrants and Latin Americans

2011-08-14 Thread Allen Esterson
the circulation of such an inflammatory assertion without making any attempt to ascertain the actual facts is grossly irresponsible. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed t

Re:[tips] British teens/ethnicity/frustration-aggression

2011-08-12 Thread Allen Esterson
cted elements, most of which will not be known to most non-residents of Britain, should be self-evident. Enough already! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ---

Re:[tips] British riot version of Kitty Genovese

2011-08-12 Thread Allen Esterson
A postscript to this: >There was no bystander apathy when a group of rioters came to >assist a person who had been injured, but to add insult to injury, >they stole items from the injured indivudual's backpack.It appears >that British morality has reached a new low. £20,000 has already been donate

Re:[tips] Britain vs. USA: Psychology and riots

2011-08-12 Thread Allen Esterson
wing two 17-year-old girls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6iLggKf1qM&feature=youtu.be Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org - From: michael sylvester

Re:[tips] British riot version of Kitty Genovese

2011-08-11 Thread Allen Esterson
Michael: A less jaundiced view of "British morality" [sic]: Young people volunteering to take back their communities from the yobs—and clapping police cars as they go by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCsrcnUy8ao&feature=related Elsewhere in London: "What really felt amazing yesterday was how

Re:[tips] British riot version of Kitty Genovese

2011-08-11 Thread Allen Esterson
wner in Southall, London, said on the police response: "They should put Indian police in England with big sticks. All the policeman run after the gangsters, hit them whenever they can. When the crowds behave like this they charge them so bad they all run away." Allen Esterson Fo

Re:[tips] Freud interview

2011-08-11 Thread Allen Esterson
edipus theory built, rather than the heroic "self analysis" of mythical psychoanalytic history. N.B. Unfortunately Richard Webster recently died at the early age of sixty: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jul/31/richard-webster-obituary Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Departm

Re:[tips] Fw: Darcus Howe BBC News Interview On Riots

2011-08-10 Thread Allen Esterson
y for certain whether the handgun was fired, however further tests are being carried out in an attempt to establish this." http://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/Pages/pr_090811_dugganupdate.aspx P.S. Joan Rivers vs Darcus Howe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlMTYHvl5bc Allen Esterson Former lecture

Re:[tips] Fw: Darcus Howe BBC News Interview On Riots

2011-08-10 Thread Allen Esterson
ned when the minicab was stopped, and the full story probably won't be known until the official investigation is completed. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org ---

Re:[tips] Freud interview

2011-08-09 Thread Allen Esterson
hought about how he may have occasionally (?) sculpted an event to fit his theory. Beth On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Allen Esterson wrote: > Beth writes > >Do you mean what was questionable? Well, one was > >his comment about seeing his mother in the shower > >with th

Re:[tips] Freud interview

2011-08-09 Thread Allen Esterson
Beth writes >Do you mean what was questionable? Well, one was >his comment about seeing his mother in the shower >with the shower curtain "pulled back like in the theater," I'd forgotten about that specific incident (must have repressed the memory :-) ) >(or did he actually refer to that in rea

[tips] Wikipedia and oral knowledge

2011-08-08 Thread Allen Esterson
e might use this article in class to review how we >determine whether a source is credible or not and how >to evaluate statements that purport to be valid >representations of reality. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http:

Re:[tips] Freud interview

2011-08-08 Thread Allen Esterson
Re Beth Benoit's appreciative response to the spoof Freud interview: >The actor actually covers some basic points that students might >note, though of course a couple of them are questionable. Beth: What do you have in mind here? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Departmen

[tips] Freud interview

2011-08-08 Thread Allen Esterson
m), September 12, 2003." http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=00BGBz Longterm TIPSters will be familiar with second item mentioned here. :-) Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

[tips] Eco-statistics

2011-06-28 Thread Allen Esterson
e gone extinct or be heading for extinction by the end of the century, especially as apparently huge numbers of plants and animals remain undiscovered. Are such estimates anything more than more-or-less educated guesses highly dependent on personal agendas? Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Sci

Re:[tips] Sex roles

2011-06-17 Thread Allen Esterson
predominant origins of such differences. An obvious example is that forms/questionnaires invariably (in my experience) ask for one's gender when in the past they would have asked for one's sex, hardly a sociocultural distinction. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department S

Re:[tips] Gould questioned in his measurements

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
nals, focusing on content rather than on style or on political appeal, have been highly critical of both the book's version of history and its scientific arguments." http://www.cpsimoes.net/artigos/art_davis.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College,

Re:[tips] Jean Piaget & Albert Einstein

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
;m waiting for the book to arrive, so I should soon find out what Martinez means! Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- From: K. H. Grobman Subject:J

Re:[tips] Franklin's kite and other scientific myths

2011-06-09 Thread Allen Esterson
y banging her fist on her desk, standing up and shouting, 'She's not crazy!'" http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/mar/12/highereducation.uk Maybe a false rumour becomes a myth if widespread belief persists beyond a shortish period of time. Allen Esterson Former lecturer,

[tips] Franklin's kite and other scientific myths

2011-06-08 Thread Allen Esterson
of 'likely stories'." http://www.utexas.edu/know/2011/06/06/science_secrets/ Psychology (of course) is not immune from the dissemination of myths: http://www.snopes.com/science/skinner.asp Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenest

Re:[tips] When Belief Trumps Facts

2011-04-30 Thread Allen Esterson
her than by spelling out the ascertainable facts for the benefit of those willing to seriously examine the issue, while being honest about areas where there is genuine uncertainty, I'm not optimistic about the extent that widely-believed dubious contentions can be countered. Allen Esterson

Re: [tips] Was Darwin's illness psychosomatic?

2011-04-16 Thread Allen Esterson
ome up on TIPS fairly recently and a search on TIPS Archive brought up your post at the top of the list, so I used that as a lead-in. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org --- You are currently subscribed to

[tips] Was Darwin's illness psychosomatic?

2011-04-16 Thread Allen Esterson
to seek confirmations of one's pet thesis. You should rather seek to find refutations, and claim (tentative) success only if you find none. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org

[tips] Cocaine and addiction

2011-04-14 Thread Allen Esterson
87. References: R. Byck (ed.) (1974). *Cocaine Papers: Sigmund Freud.* New York: New American Library. E. Jones (1953). *Sigmund Freud: Life and Work.* Vol. 1. London: Hogarth Press, chapter 6. E. M. Thornton (1983). *Freud and Cocaine.* London: Blond & Briggs, pp. 170-188. Allen Esterson Fo

Re: [tips] Shocking study (for cash)

2011-04-09 Thread Allen Esterson
exhibition at Hampton Court next year. Still the remuneration for the time spent on it was handsome . :-)) So apologies, and anyway, I fully concur with what you wrote, even if it didn't originat with Chris Green. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London al

Re:[tips] Shocking study (for cash)

2011-04-09 Thread Allen Esterson
uch circumstances, pointing out that we should consider another plausible explanation before jumping to conclusions. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.

Re:[tips] Student Question

2011-03-30 Thread Allen Esterson
"brain enhancers" would be proportionately more likely to respond to such a poll. That, of course, doesn't detract from more general points raised by the article. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester

Re:[tips] Existential psychology

2011-03-27 Thread Allen Esterson
//www.ryerson.ca/~glassman/humanist.html Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London allenester...@compuserve.com http://www.esterson.org -- From: Michael Britt Subject:Existential psychology Date: Sat

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