This one is (so far) my all-time favorite predatory journal. Even the
mailing service for this (scroll down to the end) is a hoot.
The one that misspelled *Science* in its logo is a close second (but I
deleted that one long ago).
My spam box is full of these.
[image: Logo]
International
This is such a strange issue.
I had a had time retraining my typing to get rid of two spaces after a
period. Sometimes, the old habit slips in. But with the fonts I use, the
only way I can edit out two spaces is to use the search and replace
function.
The fundamental flaw in this research is
Dap,
I did a bit of searching in google images and find lots of uses (without
attribution).
Here is a site that includes a warning that the image might be copyrighted
(perhaps they know who owns it?)
https://www.memecenter.com/fun/98002/For-A-Fair-Selection-Everybody-Has-To-Take-The-Same-Exam
Hah! The UWF gmail system sends most of these messages directly to the spam
box, but a few slip through from time to time.
I think the frequency of these solicitations is now about 10 times (or
more) that of the solicitations from Nigerian princes with big bank
balances to give away. :-)
I saw
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> I believe Claudia Stanny is the only TIPSter who lives in Florida and will
> be cl
Thanks, Chris!
This is my thinking, also. Citation is not just about giving credit to
avoid a charge of plagiarism. Citation is how we establish our scholarly
credentials and communicate to our audience.
Audience is especially tricky for students, but many assume their audience
is their
igure is, I think, problematic in
> this case.
>
> Miguel
>
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> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 11:48 AM
> To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
> Subject: Re: [tips] Does failing to cite a
Seems this is more than just using the work without citation (or full
citation).
Reproducing and image probably violates copyright. Did the authors get
permission to use the image (this is generally a separate document, which
also specifies the conditions of use, including how the work should be
Cabells is an online database. I have access to it because my library has a
subscription.
I would expect any institutions that require faculty to publish would have
a subscription. Many faculty use Cabells just to document the impact factor
for the journals they publish in.
Check your
I took this to mean something like a listing in Cabell's.
However, some excellent journals (*New Directions for Teaching and Learning*)
are not listed in Cabell's.
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APA is restrictive about what you can post to a web site or an
institutional repository.
No PDFs from scanned print pages. No PDF of the author page proofs.
You can post the manuscript submitted for final review (pre-copy editing)
with some added language (APA citation, disclaimer that this is not
As others have mentioned, the term "effect" might refer either of the
following:
Size of change (in the case of experiments, where we might infer a causal
relationship, such as *If a student studies new content using strategy x
for at least x amount of time, he/se will recall x% more material
Google search currently produces 288,000 hits for this term. sheesh
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Interesting article. My guess is that he used an algorithm like the one
used for The Writer's Diet (which also admonishes against the excessive use
of adjectives and adverbs). Most likely, he used a customized version (The
Writer's Diet will only analyze 1,000 words at a time.)
You can find the
I haven't seen an analysis other than the examination of the originating
device to determine "true" authorship (V himself on an android or an
underling on an iPhone).
I'm sure a content analysis can't be far behind, if only from the literary
types who use this type of analysis to guess at
As a reviewer, I want to know if the interpretation of the results makes
any sense (or is even consistent with the reported findings). I could not
offer sound judgment about publication merit based on the proposed design
alone.
I've seen papers in which the findings get distorted in any variety
I've been reading the reviews with much interest. As a cognitive
psychologist, I have followed the many publications based on H.M. over the
years (and stayed up half the night to watch the live streaming of the
sectioning for the Brain Observatory analysis).
My first concern about the book was
I've heard people express concern about the implications of the
"replication crisis" on the application of memory findings to teaching
strategies in higher education (e.g., benefits of "deep processing,"
self-reference effect, generation effect, massed and distributed practice,
etc.). These
Mike O makes a good point.
Another variant on his question is: What enduring information and thinking
skills do we want students to take away from our discussion of memory?
Cognitive scientists have gone back and forth or the number memories and
characteristics of proposed memories for over 80
The close paraphrasing (to be generous . . . looks more like mosaic
plagiarism) might be forgiven in a student paper if it included a citation
for the original author. Missing in last night's speed.
When students copy words verbatim and do not cite the author, they steal
both the author's
Check out the google doodle today.
They didn't get the memo? :-)
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Ann Treisman received it recently. A photo of her with President Obama (and
Ann with her medal) was in the ppt of a speaker at NITOP this afternoon.
:-)
Claudia
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Working with new faculty across the campus for the past 8 years, I think
many more pre-tenure track faculty leave for a TT job elsewhere for to go
to a more desirable geographic location (closer to family, solving the 2
body problem, climate preferences), more prestigious institution,
experience
Apologies to those who can't receive or open attachments.
Attached is a gif file with an illusory illusion.
Can you spot the giraffe?
Warning, you have to look at this for about 20 sec or so before the giraffe
emerges.
Enjoy!
Claudia
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How timely (the one with frogs leaping into a guy's mouth is cute, if a
little gross):
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/these-proto-gifs-of-the-19th-century-put-todays-gifs-to-shame/280887/?utm_source=SFFB
>From the *Atlantic *article:
In 1832, the Belgian physicist Joseph
Aren't posting things and checking for messages two different behaviors?
Yes, they have the common element of logging in, but the contingencies
operating on each might be different. Once we move behaviors(s) and
reinforcement schedule(s) into the real world, the situation gets much more
complex.
Of more concern is discussion of the way the APA handled charges of
violations of the ethics standards filed against a couple of military
psychologists stationed at Guantanamo.
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I just finished scanning it . . . not pretty.
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How sad. Junk science just lives on and on . . .
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Access to the raw data by others would be an issue only if the file
contained personal identifiers.
There has been a push to archive data for potential analysis by others (NSF
has a whole section in its grants about archiving the data and making it
available to others). I assume a researcher who
You might check into one of the NASPA conferences. They include many
workshops on assessment in general (academic as well as student affairs)
and retention initiatives.
Claudia
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What are they thinking?
For all its shortcomings, NHST at least spares us from the self-promoting
individuals who are willing to interpret a difference between 42.1967 and
42.1972 and a trend that supports their pet hypothesis.
Just wait til the junk scientists get their hands on this as a
Interesting consequence of daring a predadory publisher . . . I wonder if
they ever paid?
(from the Inside Higher Ed article):
They reportedly wrote the paper nearly 10 years ago, to protest spam
conference invitations. Vamplew recently used it to respond to what he
thought was a spam invitation
Thanks for this.
Claudia
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My major professor and I kept a random number generator in the lab when we
needed random numbers for creating multiple orders of items in a list or
creating other random assignments: Three pennies in a box. :-)
On a serious note, statisticians have multiple tests to evaluate the
quality of a
I once served on a committee for a master's thesis in which the student,
disappointed that his findings produced non-significant p-values, tried
some alternative analyses in SPSS. He showed up one day, beaming, with an
output that he thought indicated he had a significant 3 factor solution
for his
Nancy,
Given your institution's policies, you had no choice but to drop her if she
did not show up. I expect she had the same experience in multiple classes
if she was out of town for a funeral, which probably adds to her stress but
should send her a clear message that this is what happens at
Indeed!
Claudia
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Department of Psychology
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Love it.
Think of the marketability of a system where every school can be in the Top
Ten for at least one category! (Subscribers only, of course.)
Everyone would subscribe! What a business plan.
Claudia
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu wrote:
Sixty-two
The magazine publishers revise their criteria and ranking systems each year
mainly to shake up the order a bit.
Does any one imagine these changes are motivated because the editors
discovered some new and useful metric that had been previously overlooked
or weighted incorrectly?
Why buy the
In the historical context, can we blame Munsterberg?
As late as the early 1980s, scoffing at the value of a detailed
understanding of brain function as a constraint on models of memory
dominated the culture of psychology, even among many cognitive
psychologists (with a minimal nod to HM and
For those who love odd metrics:
http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2014/01/how_bad_was_the_storm_using_th.html
Almost as much fun as the miniHelen (the amount of beauty required to
launch one ship). :-)
Claudia
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Thanks for this historical perspective, Chris. I was unaware of the cachet
of physiological during Wundt's time.
As Santayana said, those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it.
As you can see in my signature, my department has made this leap (and
created a name that is too long
Word just out this afternoon . . . UWF is closed tomorrow and Wednesday for
winter weather.
I didn't need a coat walking across campus to my office this afternoon.
I assume things will change tomorrow . . .
Apologies to those who are coping with truly dangerous cold!
Claudia
OK. This one is low tech and won't let you actually submit your answers.
But it is worth a look anyway.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/01/what-do-yall-yinz-and-
yix-call-stretchy-office-supplies.html?utm_source=tnyutm_campaign=
generalsocialutm_medium=facebook
Happy New Year,
I finally got a map . . . I think the site shares load problems
experienced on the ACA site. :-)
I also adopted Jeff's strategy of selecting responses based on choices
I would have made growing up rather than usages I know about based on
where I now live. I could probably manipulate choices to
I must have lived in too many places . . . it won't show maps for me.
Does that mean I now have a mutt dialect?
:-)
Claudia
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Sounds like a candidate for a content analysis of literature review
articles published recently and 15 or 20 years ago (e.g., all of
Psychological Review for a 5 year period in each era of publishing). A
count of the number of citations 5 years or older in the reference section
should reflect any
That happened to me recently. It is spooky. The ads on Facebook reflect a
search on google in less than 24 hours.
Now if we could only get that kind of responsiveness from a company on
matters that we really care about! :-)
Claudia
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Joel,
UWF does a 1 sh course (careers in Psychology) as an online course. It is
intended for students at the beginning of the major (a 2000-level course).
It had 10 modules, ranging from advising (meeting graduation requirements
for the major, disciplinary skills (an introduction to writing in
Thanks for the alerts and links.
I have fond memories of hearing both David Hubel and Torten Weisel present
their research at colloquia when I was a grad student.
I was impressed by their interest in students as much as I was by their
research.
Claudia
We could extend this discussion to teaching activities, structure of
courses/course syllabi, rubrics, etc.
Few of us invent any really new activities; we usually borrow and adopt to
local needs.
Do we need to footnote a pair-share activity every time we use it? What
about student poster sessions
Dweck's research on mindset is solid, although the book *Mindset* is
written for a general audience (highly readable prose and all the citations
in footnotes buried in the back).
I wrote a teaching tip based on Dweck's work (and the *Mindset* book) that
summarized the work and suggests how it
I post mine on my faculty web site. Some are a bit dated now (courses I
haven't taught in a while - the syllabus is there, too, so you will know
the age of the materials). The most recent set is for Memory Cognition.
I create two sets of slides:
One is the set I use in class, which might
On the lighter side, one of my statistics professors liked to talk about
the inter-ocular effect: An effect so big it hit you right between the
eyes (and the statistical analysis was a matter of confirming the obvious).
:-)
Claudia
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Highly significant conflates statistical rarity with impact (importance
of the effect, the size of the effect).
On the other hand, I think approaching significance can be useful and I
will defend that practice (although I wouldn't push its use in a
publication).
Many statisticians note the
William Styron's *Darkness Visible *is a compelling memoir of the author's
depression.
*Elegy for Iris* (John Bayley) is a memoir of Iris Murdoch's final years
with Alzheimer's disease.
*Still Alice* (Lisa Genova) is a fiction book, written by a neuroscience
Ph.D.
Three off the top of my head.
APA style mavens:
What is the current APA preference for references to the web, web pages,
websites, etc?
One word or two?
Capitalization of web (Web): yes or no?
I found a page on the APA site that was not internally consistent on these
matters (I am shocked; SHOCKED!) . . . so, moot point? Do
Thanks. This is useful.
I agree that web pages are ephemeral and cites of URLs are problematic.
But for those of us who host a web site, especially as part of a University
web site, professional and consistent use of language and a professional
appearance is important. We decided we needed our
IRB over-reach and abuse can be a systemic problem on some campuses. Much
depends on the local structure and training of IRB members and the culture
of the campus.
Sometimes there are weird outcomes and questions that arise when a new
member comes on an IRB. A well-functioning IRB will address
You can look into ERTSLab. Might be pricey, though.
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Associate Professor
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School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences
AP is a good illustration of the way unintended consequences emerge when we
structure various rewards to behaviors (or game-able metrics) . . . and the
unintended consequences vary with the way we structure the payoff.
Two examples:
My daughter attended an out-of-state residential high school
For those having debates with colleagues about the status of psychology as
a science, NSF includes Psychology among the STEM disciplines (also
Criminal Justice and Political Science).
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Stephen is correct in his recollection of the superior memory for chess
positions only when master players are asked to remember chess positions
from genuine games. They perform like novices when confronted with pieces
randomly arranged on a chess board. (Chase Simon, 1973, Perception in
chess,
If you have a pH thing going on, you could just add a few drops of vinegar
to see if that creates a color change (or add a bit of baking soda).
If it depends on a pH change, you could create the change in the wine
glass. I assume the sink might be more alkaline, so it would be baking
soda in the
I see about half a dozen dots for people who appear to be living in
Escambia Bay near my neighborhood.
My guess is data entry errors for GPS coordinates. :-)
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This is great.
Who says journalists need to spell now that we have spell-check in our word
processors?
:-)
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Small numerical differences can sometimes have large practical
consequences. If you multiply the small reduction in risk for an
individual time the population that will use the treatment, the societal
impact (numbers of heart attack avoided in the entire population in a given
year) can be quite
The Web of Science uses these author IDs to connect records written by the
same author under variations of their name (sometimes omitting middle
initials). Also useful for women who might publish under different names
after marrying (or unmarrying).
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all know how to cope with email that doesn't interest us.
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The practice at UWF if for every PI and every individual involved with data
collection or access to data files undergoes the NIH training and files
their certificate of training when the project is submitted for IRB review.
If a new graduate assistant is added to a project, he/she must do the
I would go to the literature on empathy on this one. I expect the
explanation would be similar to why we feel sad when we learn of a tragedy
that happened to some one we know (or watching such things in a film).
A more difficult question is why some people confess to criminal behavior
they did
Annette,
As Marc notes, speakers also modify their language. I think the technical
term for this is verbal entrainment (but I might be making that up!).
I have seen a literature on how speakers in a group sometimes create unique
names and verbal shorthand while they are working on a problem and
It seems that this discussion has arguments that cross different layers of
this problem. I am not a clinician and I am not an attorney, so you can
take my contribution for what it is: that of a close observer of several
types of cases that involve judgments of dangerousness and institutional
We've taken two approaches:
Provide a mechanism for getting parental (or other custodial authority)
approval for participation, as is required for all minors (this requires
some planning by the students and researchers)
Provide an alternative mechanism for earning participation credit (attend
The problem with these questions is that they create a burden on working
memory independent of the student's understanding of the concepts, ability
to evaluate contrasting theoretical positions, apply a model to a new
situation to make a correct prediction, or other higher-level thinking
skills
I never use a question with this type of structure. I also avoid options
like A and B, C or B but not A, and similar logic puzzles. I still
smile over an exam question I encountered as an undergraduate, where a typo
in test creation resulted an option D that read one of the above.
What is this
So do infected humans manifest the tolerance (or attraction to) the odor of
cat urine like the rodents do?
(Might explain how some people can own too many cats and not notice the
aroma, although simple habituation could certainly also explain it.)
Pregnant women are encouraged to get some one
Interesting that the most common vector for toxoplasmosis (based on this
article) is the consumption of undercooked meat (not contact with cats or
cat litter, which is the more common culprit in discussions of this disease
in the media).
The conclusion section of this article states:
There are
Excellent advice from Chris Green on how to respond effectively to letters
from editors to revise and resubmit.
My publication experience (including my forays as a reviewer) is similar to
Chris' regarding APA style. I can only think of one journal that is OCD
about APA style. Most journals I've
When I have a large class and create multiple versions of the exam, I
randomize the questions on the multiple forms, which mixes up the questions
across chapters.
For smaller classes, I keep questions from each chapter together.
I didn't notice that it made a difference in average class
You are basically talking about a variation on curriculum mapping and
ensuring that a set of courses all map onto the same set of learning
outcomes (ensuring that no outcome slips through the cracks because of the
specific course a student elected to take from a menu of options).
You might be
Mike Palij asks about google forms.
I've used these a bit. You can create a variety of survey questions using
google forms and either embed these in an email message or direct
respondents to a web site where they can answer questions.
It is fairly easy to create questions. You can do
I had the same thought as Jim. And why are most of the letters used for
most words typed with the left hand?
HINT: This is a human factors question, so it is relevant to psychology.
:-)
In the bad old days of mechanical typewriters (think of those clunky old
Royals used by authors in film
I posted links to these videos in the eLearning modules for my Memory
Cognition class right after the first exam, 4 weeks into the term. I've
been shocked at the small number of students who even opened those links
(less than 20% of the students enrolled in the course). This is an even
bigger
BYU has some good videos on problem-based learning that make use of peer
instruction:
http://ctl.byu.edu/teaching-tips/collaborative-learning
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Thanks, Annette for the moving update.
Regarding valuables in the oven:
In the course of discussing our loss of retrievel cues for items stored in
special places, Neisser recounted a story about a colleague who went on a
trip and stored her jewelry in her oven as a safe place. She forget that
Sad news.
I never had the good fortune to meet him or hear him speak, but Ulric
Neisser's contributions are an important part of why I do what I now do.
When I read *Cognitive Psychology* in 1970, that set my course. He will
be missed.
Claudia
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Many things get encoded when we store a memory.
In the case of a memory for a musical performance, the encoding might
include voice quality of the singer(s), tonal aspects of instruments
(consider jazz and pop standards that are recorded by many individuals with
many different arrangements and
Another phenomenon is the expectation that one song will follow another on
an album (or CD).
Playing something on shuffle will sometimes create surprises when the
expected sequence is violated.
Not all memories are encoded intentionally! :-)
Claudia Stanny
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Thanks for sharing this! Great article!
Claudia Stanny
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Jeffrey Nagelbush nagel...@hotmail.comwrot
Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball among other books, has an interesting
article about Daniel Kahneman in Vanity Fair. It is on line in the link
below
Perhaps there is an archival record that could be used to corroborate or
discredit aspects of Mr. Cain's current (and varying) recollections. The
event involved a settlement, so various details might be contained in the
documents surrounding that settlement (including who signed what settlement
dark spots in the intersection that we focus on with
central vision.
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Athletes perceive a hot hand and may adapt passing and other strategy
decisions based on their belief (which I think this article provided
evidence for in volleyball players). But the belief in a hot hand does not
mean that the belief is valid.
Evidence for a hot hand (in basketball or other
I was as puzzled by this as Annette Rick. If anything, offering
incentives can be regarded as problematic because they can be coercive.
BTW, I know of one case where a researcher was told *not* to give an
incentive (in this case a very cheap item - a disposable razor - given
to the all-male
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heh:-)
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Crackpot Index - one of my favorite metrics).
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html
Have a wonderful day . . . now I am going to start monitoring Nate (sigh).
I say, Go West, young man!
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Stay safe, all. I've been watching the track of Irene for several days now.
I am grateful for the Gulf Coast that Irene has drifted to the east and did
not enter the Gulf, but I am sorry it is still tracking so close to the east
coast.
This is teachng-related. Having endured a direct hit with
Helping a motorist in distress: The effects of sex, race, and neighborhood.
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