Hi All.. Massive changes at the top of APA.. See below..Scott
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From: Milton Strauss milton.stra...@gmail.commailto:milton.stra...@gmail.com
Date: July 14, 2015 at 11:48:57 AM EDT
To:
HI All:
Talk about dedication to teaching...
http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu/video/neuroanatomy-lesson
...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
36 Eagle Row
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Hi All: One relatively brief video that I often show is this one below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfiB82OUXf0
It dutifully presents the “pro” DID side of the debate, but also expresses
healthy (and in my view, amply justified) skepticism, largely courtesy of John
Hopkins psychiatrist
Mike et al.: Down here in Atlanta (Hotlanta), everyone is shivering (people
just aren't used to this - we're running 25-30 degrees below normal for this
time of the year), but Emory )and all of the other major universities/colleges
in/near Atlanta) are staying open to my knowledge.
Scott
Sad news about Oliver Sacks; I had not known this.
http://mindhacks.com/2015/02/19/oliver-sacks-now-i-am-face-to-face-with-dying/
..Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Department of Psychology
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
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You are currently
I'm assuming that the study to which Paul B. is referring is the following:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0015591#pone-0015591-g002
Full reference is:
Kaptchuk, T. J., Friedlander, E., Kelley, J. M., Sanchez, M. N., Kokkotou, E.,
Singer, J. P., ... Lembo,
Hi All: Have to confess that I'm finding this all a bit confusing, as I believe
that this is the same Dias and Ressler article that was published online in
Nature Neuroscience last December (a full year ago). Perhaps it's only now in
print (?). If so, I’m not sure why news outlets are
Hi All:
http://www.vox.com/2014/12/7/7339587/simpsons-science-paper
Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
36 Eagle Row
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu
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You are currently
HI All: This news story may be relevant to some recent discussions on this
listserv (warning: do not open if you are easily offended by profanity):
https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2014/11/21/journal-accepts-profanity-laden-joke-paper
Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Samuel
Hi All: See today's WSJ for Raymond Tallis' review of a new biography of Pavlov
by Daniel Todes. Haven't read the book yet, but it's on holiday reading list.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/book-review-ivan-pavlov-by-daniel-p-todes-1416005700
...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Samuel Candler
Hi All: Forwarded from another listserv.
...Scott
From: SSCPNET [mailto:sscp...@listserv.it.northwestern.edu] On Behalf Of
William Benson
Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 8:59 PM
To: sscp...@listserv.it.northwestern.edu
Subject: Tonight's episode of The Big Bang Theory
For anyone who missed it,
Jim: See also:
Fischer, B. A. (2012). The unofficial myths of schizophrenia. The Journal of
Nervous and Mental disease, 200, 567-568.
Although I don't know of any good data on their prevalence, two other
schizophrenia-related myths that may be widespread (in addition to those that
Annette
Hi All: A few years ago, we provisionally switched to R for our intro stats and
lab methods courses, largely because we've turned over our departmental stats
teaching to a new cross-disciplinary program in quantitative methods that uses
R (this is part of a big university-wide initiative on
Yes.
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
36 Eagle Row
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slil...@emory.edu
P.S. Trying to win Mike S.'s new award for Most Succinct TIPSTER of the Year.
-Original Message-
From: Mike Palij
Rick et al.: It's the classic distinction between falsification and
fabrication, I suppose. But I agree that this is a difference that may not make
all that much of a difference in this case.
I've sent the story to our graduate students and faculty, and directed them in
particular to the
Chris: Well, they all just around and around in circles anyway, so I'm not sure
it much matters. ...Scott
-Original Message-
From: Christopher Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 6:16 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Rerun
And what's especially humiliating is that you Canadians also beat out us
Americans in curling, which isn't even a sport.
...Scott
-Original Message-
From: Jim Clark [mailto:j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca]
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 6:33 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
No, but there is truth to the rumor that Daryl Bem was my undergraduate
advisor. Hmmm...Scott
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On Jan 8, 2014, at 4:51 PM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edumailto:m...@nyu.edu
wrote:
Making the media rounds is a story about physics research on
time travel that involves
Hi All TIPSTERs: I thought that some of you might this piece worthy of
discussion and debate:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system
...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
President, Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy
Professor, Department of
Hi Dap: To my knowledge, this is the only published study that has pitted
actuarial against clinical judgment in this regard:
Dawes, R. M. (1971). A case study of graduate admissions: Application of three
principles of human decision making. American Psychologist, 26, 180-188.
although
For another pretty good critical examination of some of the longstanding
assumptions of the positive psychology movement (or at least the portion of
that movement that is sometimes designated as happyology), see this article
in the most recent Science News, which highlights the work of Joseph
BTW, dissociative fugue has been axed (as a independent condition) from DSM-5,
perhaps in part because of serious doubts regarding the authenicity of claims,
such as those in this recent (rather suspicious) case. The more things
change
...Scott
I think you guys have too much time on your hands...:) Scott
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On Jun 18, 2013, at 12:12 PM, Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca wrote:
On 2013-06-18, at 11:27 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote:
Which reminds me of an old Zen saying
Those who talk, don't know; those that
Hi Annette...a few points (not sure these will help, but maybe...).
(1) Kaiser criterion is notorious for factor over-extraction. So if you used
the default in SPSS, which is the Kaiser criterion (eigenvalues 1), you might
have ended up with a lot of uninterpretable factors. If you haven't
My impression is that some labs have had a difficult time independently
replicating Dweck's work. See:
http://chronicle.com/article/Carol-Dwecks-Attitude/65405/
But I haven't tracked the state of the research in the last couple of years, so
other TIPSters may wish to weigh in on this
Well, it was a matter of time, I suppose...
http://chronicle.com/article/In-Reversal-NYU-Investigates/139715/
Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slii...@emory.edumailto:sliil...@emory.edu;
Paul: I don't agree with your second statement below, or perhaps I don't
understand it. By definition, heritability is the proportion of variance in a
phenotype that is attributable to variance in genes.
Also, for characteristics that are highly epistatic, heritability can be
extremely high
Hi All:
If Mike Palij continues to post gratuitously nasty emails to the TIPS listserv,
I will be signing off.
Mike, please. Enough already.
...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
I'm hoping that it will be bundled with the release of DSM-5 (ostensibly due
out in the next day or two), so that the two APA's can hold a contest over
which contains more errors.
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta,
Hi Mike et aldon't have much time today (two graduate student defenses,
plus meetings), but see the following reference for a brief history of the
(evidence-based practice) EBP concept as applied to clinical psychology and
allied fields:
Spring, B. (2007). Evidence-based practice in
Thanks much, TIPSTERs, for the kind words. I'm quite certain, though, that APS
meant to write a legend in his own mind...
I promise not to give my talk in a Speedo, however; trust me, it wouldn't be
pretty (and TIPS might need to change its name to SPIT). ...Scott
Yes, it was announced via papal bull, known otherwise by insiders as Psych.
Bull.
...Scott
From: michael sylvester [mailto:msylves...@copper.net]
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2013 4:25 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] BREAKING NEWS: POPE TO ATTEND APA
My favorite recent story about IOD (IRB Overreach Disorder):
Last year, Emory's IRB informed one of our psychology graduate students that
she needed to change the font on her participant recruitment sheet because it
was too large, and hence too coercive to potential participants.
..Scott
Hi TIPSters:
I seek your help in identifying the source of a quotation, as well as the exact
quote itself. I've looked around the web for some time without any success, so
have turned as a last resort to this august (ahem...) and cheerful band of
scholars.
Here's what I recall, and I hope
, Lilienfeld, Scott O
slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu wrote:
Hi TIPSters:
I seek your help in identifying the source of a quotation, as well as the exact
quote itself. I've looked around the web for some time without any success, so
have turned as a last resort to this august (ahem
As a faculty member at Emory, I'll say only that I'm not surprised...
Sigh
Scott
From: Christopher Green [chri...@yorku.ca]
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 10:44 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Emory president
I'm currently Associate Editor for an APA journal (Journal of Abnormal
Psychology), and I probably shouldn't say this, but
The minutae of APA style just aren't considered all that important when
evaluating manuscripts, as copy-editors will take care of most of the details.
Unless APA style
Hi TIPs Members...sent to another listserv this AM. Scott
From: SSCPNET [sscp...@listserv.it.northwestern.edu] on behalf of Lilienfeld,
Scott O [slil...@emory.edu]
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 8:30 AM
To: sscp...@listserv.it.northwestern.edu
Hi TIPSters...happy New Year.
I beg your indulgence for just a bit, as this message doesn't have much direct
bearing on the teaching of psychology, although I do think it carries a number
of implications for how we think about academia and what we value or do not
value in our colleagues.
Thanks much, Mike...that's helpful. I was just wondering if there was a simple
way to do it on an author by author, rather than article by article, basis, but
your approach may be the best...or as far back as it goes, anyway. I am
definitely more interested in researchers who've had a major
This study is commonly cited in methodology textbooks as a good example of bad
experimental design. Brady did not randomly assign monkeys to conditions;
instead, the monkeys who responded most quickly were assigned to be the
executives, which could have been the crucial confound (e.g., the
Actually, Rushton passed away fairly recently..Scott
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 19, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Jim Clark j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca wrote:
Hi
I know the following will be viewed dubiously (by Mike P at least), coming
from a Canadian and one with University of Western Ontario (aka Western
As some of you know, yesterday the ApA (their APA, not ours) board of trustees
formally approved the DSM-5 changes at a meeting in Alexandria, so it's on the
way - for good, for bad, or both. Laptop having a bit of a psychotic break
today, so can't seem to send the links (maybe a new DSM-5
Only about 5 minutes for me too...
From: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 7:26 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] A Favor--Will You Participate in a Quick Survey?
Interesting questions, Laura. And if it
Hi All...as an introductory psychology textbook author, I can say that I find
many of these reviews invaluable and that I frequently make revisions based on
them.
BTW, I still owe a few TIPSetrs some responses re: my presidential-psychopathy
study (haven't forgotten...just can't come up
Hi All - Sorry to be a bit delayed in responding. My time is very limited
(dealing with some deadlines), so I will need to be relatively succinct (they
may not seem succinct, but I have a lot more to say!) in my responses below.
(1) Re: Beth's original email, the Huffington Post article (note
?
Take care
Jim
Paul Brandon pkbra...@hickorytech.net 11-Aug-12 12:17 pm
Something about paradigm shifts requiring people to die.
It may take a while for the 'old regime' to be replaced.
On Aug 11, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
Annette et al.:
From what I know of its history
Annette et al.:
From what I know of its history, the Columbia clinical psychology program has
always been something of an anomaly. It's not in the psychology department (a
rarity for clinical psychology programs, although not for counseling
psychology programs), and has little or no formal
Gee, now that Chris Green has apparently appointed himself unilaterally as the
arbiter of when a TIPS thread is no longer interesting, are we now required to
seek formal permission from him for all future posts on the Bem matter - or any
other matter that he decides has already been resolved
Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was
beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall)
even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of
paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open
prepared to claim that quantum field theory contravenes the laws of
thermodynamics. If not, then I'm not certain that spooky action at a distance
or other quantum phenomena are relevant.
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O
slil...@emory.edumailto:slil...@emory.edu wrote:
Daryl Bem
Chris may be thinking of this song by (and recorded by) Al Ellis:
WHINE, WHINE, WHINE!
(Yale Whiffenpoof Song by Guy Scull a Harvard Man)
I cannot have all of my wishes filled
Whine, whine, whine!
I cannot have every frustration stilled
Whine, whine, whine!
Life really owes me the things that I
The now (regrettably) out of print book, Rival Hypotheses, featured a number of
excellent examples of hypothetical psychology studies that were flawed on the
grounds of one or more alternative explanations, along with brief and
user-friendly descriptions of the flaws in these studies.
, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
Hi Mike et al.:
Mike, no, actually I don't think you answered my question, unless I've
missed it in the back-and-forth flurry of multiple emails (but I don't think
so). I've asked, now three times, why depressed patients in controlled studies
Mike says It don't know of any study that used random assignment of treatment
types, unless it was to different types of ECT. Well, here's at least one:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1600-0447.1997.tb09926.x/pdf
And here's another one:
It also does not square with the findings of several studies indicating that
many or most patients who have undergone ECT describe the treatment as less
disturbing or frightening than a trip to the dentist:
See e.g., http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/137/1/8
Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
to be -systematically- demonstrated, not just
anecdotally.
On Mar 20, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote:
It also does not square with the findings of several studies indicating that
many or most patients who have undergone ECT describe the treatment as less
disturbing or frightening than a trip
Jim Clark is correct: mathematically, there is nothing preventing a Cronbach's
alpha or KR-20 (which is equivalent to alpha for dichotomous items) from being
negative if the item intercorrelations are negative. I've occasionally seen
this in my own questionnaire data for just the reason Jim
University of Maryland's Robert Provine's work (and book) on laughter is also a
must. See:
http://www.umbc.edu/psyc/faculty/provine/index.html
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
sli...@emory.edu;
Hi All TIPSTERs: I learned yesterday (and it was confirmed this morning) that
Ulric Neisser, often regarded as the father of the cognitive revolution (and
one of my erstwhile departmental colleagues and friends here at Emory), passed
away yesterday morning. Needless to say - whether one agreed
In at least some observer ratings studies of non-human animal (e.g.,
chimpanzee) personality (plenty of controversy here; Sam Gosling at U of Texas
is the to go person to for this literature), dominance has emerged as a sixth
factor in addition to the Big Five. Its inclusion here along with
Michael - For many years Harvard University Press allowed reproduction of card
12F (but not any of the others) with permission:
http://withfriendship.com/images/i/41559/Thematic-Apperception-Test-picture.gif
And they very well still may.
That's why it's the one TAT card in most intro psych.
Michael - Actually, lots of accessible discussions of this issue are available
on the web. Here are two, but there are many others:
http://www.brainybehavior.com/blog/2007/07/pet-scans-and-fmri-compared/
http://users.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~stuart/thesis/chapter_3/section3_1.html
...Scott
Scott
An interesting (and odd) addendum this morning to the story that Jeff posted:
Florida Governor Attacked Field His Daughter Studied
Many anthropologists remain furious at Governor Rick Scott, a Florida
Republican, for saying this week that his state doesn't need more graduates in
anthropology.
Hi All ..was initially assuming that this thread was in response to Sternberg's
recent piece, but I guess not. I tend to disagree with Sternberg on many
things, but for what it's worth, here's his contrarian position:
his own work,
which leads me to wonder whether others have replicated and reproduced his
findings?
Take care
Jim
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edu 29-Sep-11 12:09:00 PM
Hi All ..was initially
Mike Williams wrote that The other medications, including all the
antidepressants, have no
treatment effect. Mike later says, when describing the effecs of such
medicatiions, that there is nothing there.
Mike, I had thought your very point was because most studies of
antidepressants
By the way, one of my favorite misunderstandings of probability, which I've
mentioned in my classes, came from the fall of Skylab in 1979 (younger TIPSters
will have little idea what I'm talking about). I recall a NYC TV station
asking people on the street about the likelihood that they'd be
Jim et al. - Re: Jim Clark's question # 4 below, there is a modest literature
comparing antidepressants (I place the word in quotations, as there is now
increasing consensus that these are not medications for depression per se) with
active placebos, which create many/most of the same side
Hi Mike W. - Not dismissing the defects (not sure where you got this
impression)- again, as I said there are plenty of important questions to be
raised here and I'm hardly an apologist for the current state of research on
psychotherapy outcome. I was merely pointing out that what you wrote in
Mike Williams wrote that Since all the dependent measures involve a judgement
by the patient or the investigator that the disorder got better or worse, they
are all influenced by the expectation bias that the treatment worked. The
assertion (all of the dependent measures...) in the first half
. All
the best...Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row,
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
slil...@emory.edu; 404-727-1125
-Original Message-
From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [mailto:slil...@emory.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10
Hi Annette: The Boulder Model originated in an influential 1949 conference at
the Univesity of Colorado at Boulder; inaugurated by David Shakow (in many
ways, the father of modern clinical psychology training) that conference was
indeed the formal birth of the scientist-practitioner (S-P)
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] Clinical training: Boulder and Denver
Hi
James M. Clark
Professor of Psychology
204-786-9757
204-774-4134 Fax
j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca
Lilienfeld, Scott O slil...@emory.edu 11-Sep-11 7:36:26 AM
But more and more, Boulder
I agree with Ed's #1 below (at the risk of tooting my own horn, see Lilienfeld,
S.O., in press. Public skepticism of psychology: Why many people perceive the
study of human behavior as unscientific. American Psychologist), but not
really with his #2. Ed's comments don't distinguish substance
Jim et al.: I basically agree. Actually, I think that most advocates of
empirically validated treatments (now called empirically supported treatments,
or ESTs; the now discarded term validated implied a finality that is
unwarranted and inconsistent with the notion of science as inherently
This site by Lutus has been around for many years, although I believe he
updates it periodically. I’ve used in a talk I give on public skepticism of
psychology (based on an “in press” article on the topic by yours truly).
Specifically, I’ve used this Facebook page that is connected to it:
Incidentally, I communicated with Lutus a number of years ago and don't feel
entirely comfortable sharing what I know (or what I recall, anyway) about the
reasons for his pronounced negative attitudes toward psychotherapy and allied
techniques. But I will say only that I believe that Mike P.'s
Following the publication by Beck and colleagues, American Psychologist also
featured two comments from authors questioning the initial claims of having
found Little Albert. See:
http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecorduid=2010-08987-015
and
I hate to say this, but in my experience many (not all) of these publishers
just don't seem to have much of an educational ethos, at least nowadays. The
whole idea that one of their primary roles should be to disseminate valuable
knowledge about psychology (or other fields) to the general
A decent, albeit now somewhat outdated, resource along these lines is Alfie
Kohn's (1990) book, You know what they say: The truth about popular beliefs.
Kohn presents large numbers of different proverbs and tidbits of conventional
wisdom, and then debunks them with research evidence. And
Hi Annette - Actually, many researchers do conduct factor analyses on
dichotomous (e.g., T-F items), although as you note doing so potentially runs
afoul of some assumptions. One possibility is to convert your rs into
tetrachoric correlations (this is a fairly standard approach in factor
I thought that some TIPSters might be interested in this story:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110522/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday
The following line in particular caught my attention, and surely would have put
a smile on the faces of Festinger, Riecken, and Schachter:
Many followers said
I'm strongly opposed to forcing animals to wear tights.
Scott
Sent from my iPhone
On May 8, 2011, at 1:45 PM, michael sylvester
msylves...@copper.netmailto:msylves...@copper.net wrote:
Hey, I am all for the extinction of Osama and celebration is in order.
However training dogs to jump off
This brief piece may be relevant to the Mike P-Mike S interchange about
rebutting conspiracy theories. I suspect the outcomes are difficult to predict
in any given circumstance, but I do not share Mike S's point that providing
evidence will never backfire. I don't think the research on biased
And here's a reference to the only controlled evaluation of the Blue Eyes-Brown
Eyes program, to my knowledge:
Stewart, T. L., La Duke, J. R., Bracht, C., Sweet, B. A. M., Gamarel, K. E.
(2003). Do the eyes have it? A program evaluation of Jane Elliott's blue
eyes/brown eyes diversity
Mike - Actually, not saying anything very deep or complicated here...simply
saying that Kahneman's Nobel is a landmark that recognizes (not necessarily
caused) the increasing emphasis on heuristics and biases in decision-making.
I agree with you, by the way, that much of this work has come to
Hi All - Thought some of you might be amused by this story...I was (ironically,
I'd seen the media write-up of the study a couple of days ago, but hadn't
bothered to look at the name of the third author):
http://mindhacks.com/2011/04/10/the-oscar-for-best-neuroscience-research-goes-to/
Stanley Milgram, a Stanford psychologist (??)...
Fact-checking, anyone?
...Scott
From: sbl...@ubishops.ca [sbl...@ubishops.ca]
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 8:55 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Shocking study
Steven et al.: See:
http://www.srmhp.org/0302/pdd.html
(full article not online, unfortunatelyI edit the journal but am still
trying to twist the publisher's arms on such things).
..Scott
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology, Room 473
Emory University
36 Eagle Row,
Rick - BTW, we nominate a baker's dozen of such findings in our book's
concluding chapter.
Scott
From: Rick Froman [mailto:rfro...@jbu.edu]
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 10:51 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: [tips] Plausible or confirmed psychological myths
Interestingly, in the ESP literature, the phenomenon of psi missing
(significantly worse than chance performance) has sometimes been interpreted as
evidence for ESP. See:
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-60898897.html
(although I don't believe this provides access to the full article...sorry).
Yes, the Wagenmakers et al. reply, which is now in press at JPSP (I can no
longre recall if that piece circulated arouund the TIPS listserv - I've been
following so many Bem discussions on so many listservs that I've lost track),
makes this point very forcefully - basically arguing that Bem
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 7, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu wrote:
But probably not in the way you might think it does. The NY Times
has a news article based on research published in this week's Science
on the effect of sniffing women's tears (shed to, say, a tear jerker
of a
Daryl Bem was my undergraduate mentor at Cornell (sigh), and a very bright
and creative fellow, so this stuff makes me deeply sad. In response to Mike
P's question, I honestly don't know the answer. All I do know is that Daryl
has been quite consistent in his beliefs in psi: Even back in
Having gotten my hands dirty in the mythbusting business for a number of years,
it's long struck me that there are two rather different types of myths that are
often not clearly distinguished. We might call one type ontological myths
(admittedly, Im just making up the name; there are probably
Actually, I was indeed able to identify a follow-up study. See below:
Re: neurofeedback for ADHD and related conditions: Although now a bit dated, my
distinct impression is that the basic conclusions of this review still stand:
http://www.srmhp.org/archives/neurotherapy.html
...Scott
According to my letter, Dr. Swingle is a former academic psychologist
(at
Huh?
The beloved Rorschach inkblots haven't changed since they were publlished in
1921, and they were not all in black and white - half have always (for the last
8 decades) contained at least some color, with some entirely in color. The TAT
cards have similarly not undergone any changes
Michael - In my many years of clinical training, I believe that I saw one
patient with a clear-cut case of Cotard's syndrome...it is a delusion of being
dead (walking course syndrome), or in other cases of not existing, decaying,
rotting, etc. (the patient I saw was utterly convinced that he
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