Re: [tips] Statistics question

Andy Field It's like Monty Python or Simon Pegg doing stats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=532QXt1PM-Q Nancy -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Mon, Mar 6, 2017 12:49

Re: [tips] Statistics question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=532QXt1PM-Q I swear by Andy Field. See above. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College -Original Message- From: Jim Clark To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Sent: Mon, Mar 6, 2017 12:48

Re: [tips] Successful Completion Rates -- Trying Once Again

I think Jeff and mine's experience is substantively different from yours. The difference is open admissions. I can still count on having a handful of students that are really motivated. And a few who may not be but are willing to go through the motions. And then, a great number who really

Re: [tips] Taking notes on paper

I taught myself simple word processing so I could work as a temp during the summer in grad school by re typing concepts from the text and the notes I could decipher from my neuroscience class. I got an A and was employed all summer. I think,the answer is - Practice, and do what works, Nancy

Re: [tips] Taking notes on paper

It's better if your handwriting is clear. I hate taking notes, my handwriting is terrible AND it becomes uncomfortable after not very long. In math class it's unavoidable. But if it's a taking notes on spoken word, I am grateful for my laptop. Also, in computer programming (which I also

Re: [tips] FIFA Is Corrupt?

LOL! Nancy Melucci -Original Message- From: Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Wed, May 27, 2015 6:37 pm Subject: Re: [tips] FIFA Is Corrupt? Someone today posted

[tips] Health Research Seminar

Hello - I hope you've all had a pleasant break As of this moment, I am scheduled to teach a graduate level health research in psychologyseminar at a four year university starting 1/21. 2 students are signed up, so I keep thinking they willcancel it, but, I’ve taught very small graduate

Re: [tips] CIA Torture and Kohlberg's Stages

I'm arriving late to this one but I am a self-confessed hater of both Kohlberg and Gilligan's (useless) paradigms. I cover them grudgingly because they may come up in other/upper division courses/GREs. Moral decision making in the abstract tell us very little about how people function when

Re: [tips] Do Cells Phones Make Neglectful Mothers?

Not going to be rhetorical here. No one asks the same question about fathers and mobile devices. Even though when you ask many people if they felt the lack of their fathers at certain points (or all the time as children. Because the default setting for fathers in this two parent model is

Re: [tips] quick question about wipe-off markers

I hate them. They are stinky, toxic, super messy for writing (especially when teaching Math.) People use the wrong kind and ruin the boards. Leave them out without caps so they dry out. People steal them for huffing. The advantages are lost on me. Nancy Melucci LBCC -Original

Re: [tips] Do Brain Games Exercise You Brain And Postpone Dementia?

Hi everyone - I think two things can be true here... 1) That given a choice between trying to learn and have novel and challenging cognitive (and physical) experiences for as long as health permits, and going into a more static/habitual life as we age, it's probably a good idea to bet on

Re: [tips] Spurious Correlations

wonderful...thank you! Nancy Melucci LBCC -Original Message- From: Carol DeVolder devoldercar...@gmail.com To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Thu, Oct 9, 2014 6:23 pm Subject: [tips] Spurious Correlations

Re: [tips] Teach statistics before calculus

I am so glad some folks here agree with meI could never learn math without doing math. I can't teach mathematically based concepts without calculation demos that require students to work along with me. I've run into the insistence and taken some flack, on this list in the past and in

Re: [tips] The season of the deceased grandparent

Hello everyone - Hope you had a nice summer and holiday weekend. So, I need to know if my two choices in a matter are the dichotomy of total patsy and heartless b-word. As I've often joked to students, May and December are bad times for grandparents (and other distant relatives) who seem

Re: [tips] statistics teaching: SPSS vs R

R appears to require a fair amount of programming experience. This makes it unwieldy to teach to undergraduates who tend to struggle with the more familiar and Excel like structure of SPSS. I appreciate that SPSS has paralleled the trajectory of textbooks in our business (constant frequent

Re: [tips] Sample sizes

Granted I am a hack who teaches intro stats (occasionally intermediate level) and not an actual research scientist but I always like to joke (and keep my students awake) by exclaiming that Size doesn't count...except in statistical sample size. and (of course) 'Bigger IS better. ^ - Nancy

Re: [tips] Sample sizes

Thanks Annette and Ken...I really do learn something new everyday because of (among other things) professional exchanges like this... Nancy M. LBCC -Original Message- From: Ken Steele steel...@appstate.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

Re: [tips] Roids Might Cause Autism

My email was nothing more than a suggestion that we remember that all of this research is correlational. How children turn out on any dimension is a complex mix. Which means that besides the X (poor parenting; stress; day care; genetic propensity etc) and the Y (child outcome) are 100s of

Re: [tips] Roids Might Cause Autism

thank you for the props I noticed too...kind of a weird bouncing between Beavis and Butthead perserverence (I laughed at first too but really - going on a half day about it?) and arcane statistical stuff. have a good weekend NJM -Original Message- From: Joan Warmbold

Re: [tips] Roids Might Cause Autism

These things - like the rise of day care etc. and other changes in family life over the past century may exist and yet the origin of the disease still have absolutely nothing with failure of parents to engage the child. Since this is correlational, the hypothesis that the brain is being shaped

Re: [tips] NEWSFLASH! Internet does NOT damage kids' brains

Chris, you know you are probably wrong. Of course the Internet damages kids' brains. You just can't read articles correctly because all that TV watching ruined your eyes Nancy M. LBCC in LB, CA -Original Message- From: Christopher Green chri...@yorku.ca To: Teaching in the

Re: [tips] Help! Learning Styles are Eating the Brains of Our Young

of Popular Psychology by Scott Lilienfeld et al to give to some of the teachers or students interested in Psych. This myth is discussed on pp. 92-96. G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:50 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.commailto:drna...@aol.com wrote: I am about

[tips] Help! Learning Styles are Eating the Brains of Our Young

I am about to embark on a day of volunteer judging of science fair projects for the Los Angeles Unified School District. I've previewed the 20 or so projects to which I am assigned. One of them claims to confirm the existence of learning styles. We don't hold kids to the same standards, I

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

Assessment companies and the test prep companies that live symbiotically off of them make a great deal of money. The test score is held up and apart from the grades as being somehow more fair. So I think they invite the scrutiny. I think any individual grade from the student's middle school or

Re: [tips] SAT and High School grade study

I suspect that the College Board - and various test prep companies - will want to shoot holes in this study. From what I heard, the SATs ultimately don't add very much to this. If you would more clearly explain toi nme the big difference that makes the conclusions unwarranted, I am interested.

Re: [tips] Great article

thanks for mentioning him, Louis. He's one of my earliest intellectual heroes. I don't want him to be forgotten. A great person. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Dry as a bone in CA -Original Message- From: Louis Eugene Schmier lschm...@valdosta.edu To: Teaching in the

[tips] Research Design and Latinos

Hi - Though I am arguably a major gabacha I've been assigned a class in Mexican and Hispanic Psychology. I was trying to design an interactive exercise to review basic research design principles, general weaknesses in research design, and weaknesses related to investigation of minority

Re: [tips] grade inflation at Harvard and other places

Part of this is a devil's advocate response, and part of this is sincere curiosity. Given inflated self-esteem, it’s not a good thing to give them high grades, because it only encourages a false sense of what they can and cannot do,” he said If you are running a top-flight selective

[tips] Thank you for the help

Colleagues, Apology for the cross-posting A brief thank you for your kindness in providing me with so many good suggestions of data sources for my intermediate stats class project. I wish you all luck with this semester. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College --- You are currently

[tips] Need SPSS data sets

Hello gang I need SPSS data sets related to behavioral/social sciences that would be suitable for analysis and creation of a simple poster project for small work groups in an intermediate statistics class. The prof from whom I inherited the class no longer does these even though they were

Re: [tips] Sanjay Gupta on Why I changed my mind on weed

Perhaps this was not the best way to present his contribution to what should be a sea-change (or a seaweed change perhaps) on drug policy as it related to cannabis. Like any drug it has harmful effects. In pure health terms, the best recreational drug is no recreational drug (I'd argue this

Re: [tips] Sanjay Gupta on Why I changed my mind on weed

of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; history and systems You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. Dorothy Parker From: drnanjo [mailto:drna...@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:05 PM To: Teaching

Re: [tips] calling all tipsters at the ap reading

Thanks Annette...have a great time everyone! Nancy Melucci -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Sun, Jun 2, 2013 6:13 pm Subject: [tips] calling all tipsters at the ap reading

Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

, drnanjo drna...@aol.com wrote: I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education system. I remember taking Geography in elementary school. I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography. But plenty on other

Re: [tips] Thanks Canada!

Ha ha thank you Mike... Nancy M. -Original Message- From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 2:49 pm Subject: [tips] Thanks Canada! If you thought that you might

Re: [tips] Professor says students can't identify continents on map - Nfld. Labrador - CBC News

I wonder if it is possibly a reflection of the priorities of our education system. I remember taking Geography in elementary school. I don't remember having standardized testing on Geography. But plenty on other subjects. It it possible that this is one of the side effects of teaching to the

Re: [tips] Spoiled Children

Has anyone ever accurately operationalized what it means to be spoiled? I can recognize spoiled milk easily. Spoiled children - not so much. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: MiguelRoig miguelr...@comcast.net To: Teaching in the

Re: [tips] BREAKING NEWS: Professors less stressful

I agree that they did not survey adjuncts. Most are stressed to the limit in this economy. Especially in California... Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College -Original Message- From: Tim Shearon tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

[tips] Seeking help - Psychology of the Mexican American

Hello - So I've been asked to teach a class on Mexican-American Psychology in the Spring and have decided to take on the challenge. I understand that I may lack the ethnic credibility but would like to believe that by allowing the students to own at least some of the class time (using

[tips] AP Classes are a Scam

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/ap-classes-are-a-scam/263456/ Sharing this because a few of my fellow TIPsters are veteran readers. Wondering what they (and other not AP-affiliated Tipsters) think about this. Happy approximately mid-semester to you and yours... Nancy

Re: [tips] Caution--explicit language

That was fun..thanks! Nancy M. LBCC -Original Message- From: Carol DeVolder devoldercar...@gmail.com To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Thu, Sep 27, 2012 11:00 am Subject: [tips] Caution--explicit language I don't know if this

Re: [tips] How To Study People With Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)

I was skeptical of this claim because it is so hard to test memory of every day of a person's life. and if the truth is that these folks are simply better at remembering, not able to remember every moment of each day, or even every day then the title of the NPR article is another good example

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

Hello - I think there are cognitive benefits that extend to other areas when we are trained to be competent in basic math and algebra. Having to do with: Improved problem-solving and reasoning skills, ability to organize information. Although I do believe that perhaps a segment of the

[tips] Data sets (preferably free) for Intro Stats

Hello. Hello. Is anyone out there? Or are you all on your yachts sailing to the South Pacific? Hello. Hello. Is anyone out there? Or are you all on your yachts sailing to the South Pacific? Anyway, I am in need of some introductory level statistics data sets, suitable for use in

Re: [tips] TIPS belated birthday

I also want to thank Bill. Tips has been an important part of my professional life now for 14 years. I've met some great people in the virtual and non-virtual worlds through it. Thanks. Nancy Melucci LBCC et alia California USA -Original Message- From: Shearon, Tim

[tips] What are the basic emotions?

Hello Tips Peeps - I am participating in the writing of a reference-work sized compendium of general psychology aimed at an AP/First Year College lower-division audience (instructors and students). I want to include comprehensive information about the concept of basic or universal emotions.

[tips] Likert scale graph/chart results presentation

Hey gang: I am teaching an upper division research methods class for the first time in my life. As such, I want to be scrupulous about the guidance I give If one wishes to present likert scale results in pictorial form, would one do a histogram (continuous, with bars touching) or a bar

Re: [tips] Why Do Conservatives - no, Americans - Distrust Science?

We also have to remember though that those who are allied with the anti-vaccine movement and embrace many hokey (and untested) alternative remedies, prevention strategies and new agey health philosophies are overwhelmingly left-leaning. I don't think that conservatives have a monopoly on

Re: [tips] Why Do Conservatives - no, Americans - Distrust Science?

committee). Chris --- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ == On 2012-03-31, at 11:18 AM, drnanjo wrote: We also have to remember though that those who

Re: [tips] Seeking a co-author

Pardon the cross posting. I am seeking an individual to write at least one volume of a student reference guide for the AP Psychology Examination. Essentially an introductory psychology (college level) book. The volume will definitely include information on Mental Health and Mental Illness.

Re: [tips] Don't You Hate Research That...

Pressure to publish or perish, perhaps? Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Cc: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 5:44

Re: [tips] Quickie Poll On How to Teach Undergraduate Statistics

On what basis does the author conclude that NHST causes confusion? Educational research or experience-based but essentially pure opinion? Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College -Original Message- From: Michael Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

[tips] Help with an Advanced Research Methods Lab in Social/Personality

I need some suggestions for the following: 1) How to run a classroom IRB (institutional research board) 2) A list of research project done by students in similar classes you've taught. thanks...you can reply off list if you'd like (or share with the tipsfolks if it's really good stuff.

Re: [tips] Help with an Advanced Research Methods Lab in Social/Personality

Methods Lab in Social/Personality n Feb 2, 2012, at 11:05 AM, drnanjo wrote: 1) How to run a classroom IRB (institutional research board) When in trouble r in doubt un in circles cream and shout anonymous -) Paul Brandon meritus Professor of Psychology innesota State University, Mankato aul.bran

Re: [tips] Research on the nocebo effect

Couldn't we consider the stereotype threat research of Steele et al a variant of the nocebo effect? Nancy Melucci. Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: Marc Carter marc.car...@bakeru.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

Re: [tips] Differences between the brains of atheists and religious people

Never mind the fact that not praying or meditating and being an atheist are also not the same thing... Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA -Original Message- From: Jeffry Ricker jeff.ric...@sccmail.maricopa.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

Re: [tips] Good news for illegal drug users

With all due respect, although pot is admittedly benign (more so than alcohol, unless used in combination with it) and cigarettes (far less addictive, as evidenced by the number of people who give it up easily after youth, contrast that with tobacco) there are many good reasons to avoid using

[tips] Social and Personality Psychology

Hey Tipsons - I have accepted a last minute assignment to teach a laboratory class in social and personality psychology. I am having a hard time finding sample syllabi (OTRP etc.) So would appreciate donations and other guidance in constructing my own version of this class. Thanks. Hope

Re: [tips] Why does published research have to be so cryptic

I hate the way research articles are written and I hate APA style (except for citation guidelines). I suspect it's because there's a fear that exciting presentation is somehow linked to failure to properly critique the method and consider confounds, alternative hypotheses etc. I don't think

Re: [tips] contralateral organization

thanks everyone for the help with this... Nancy M. -Original Message- From: Pollak, Edward (Retired) (Retired) epol...@wcupa.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 6:54 am Subject: [tips] contralateral organization

[tips] contralateral organization

Help Help colleagial Peeps - Are ALL human sensory systems organized contralaterally? Or just vision and the somatosenory system? thanks for any help you can give me... Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach, CA -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu

Re: [tips] contralateral organization

of nhibitory process. But it was a LONG time ago! Take care Jim James M. Clark Professor of Psychology 204-786-9757 204-774-4134 Fax j.cl...@uwinnipeg.ca drnanjo drna...@aol.com 27-Nov-11 6:23:40 PM Help Help colleagial Peeps - Are ALL human sensory systems organized

Re: [tips] Sorry, Strivers - Talent Matters - NYTimes.com

But working memory capacity made a statistically significant contribution as well (about 7 percent, a medium-size effect). In the absence of experimental manipulation, are we to assume causation. And who declared 7% to be a medium sized effect? Sounds pretty piddling to meIt might be

Re: [tips] Paul Lutus - Psychology is not a science

Stated much more articulately than I am currently able to state it. Thanks. Nancy Melucci LBCC -Original Message- From: Pollak, Edward (Retired) epol...@wcupa.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 5:43 am Subject:

Re: [tips] Paul Lutus - Psychology is not a science

I think some of his points can be taken without buying the whole bill of goods. I too am disturbed by the ever growing number of life states and behaviors that are labelled mental illness. But there are many other (market, for example) forces that are driving that trend. It's a little limited

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

I agree that in theory filtering out said nuisance with a spam folder is the way to go...but since we can't get the whole list to shun the individual (which would be the most effective way to go, if no one responded to his posts unless they were truly serious requests for information and not

Re: [tips] antidepressants

I think that what sticks is that pills and potions are easy and might work. Because sadly there seems to be a hard-wired tendency to want to sit on our behinds and have someone else fix it for us. Again, I am not a complete pill atheist. They do help some people with some things. But the

Re: [tips] antidressants

I think the problem is that our lifestyle influences our neurochemistry and vise-versa. So the origin is hard to discern. Nancy Melucci LBCC -Original Message- From: Pollak, Edward (Retired) epol...@wcupa.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

Re: [tips] Teaching conference announcement

Because we are one of the few precambrian institutions still on the 18 week calendar, there is no way I can attend this because I have to run department meetings that day. Fiddlesticks! (not what I am actually saying outloud...) I hope it's a great success Nancy Melucci LBCC

Re: [tips] Do antidepressants cause depression?

Pharmaceutical companies cause depression. New slogan: Resist having your health and your emotional life medicalized! Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College -Original Message- From: Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

Re: [tips] Do antidepressants cause depression?

I think much of the evidence suggest that these drugs are being given to people whose depression is arguably mild and would clear up on its own with time and/or lifestyle changes. I understand the drugs DO help the severely depressed. But there is so much money being made, and Americans are

Re: [tips] Do antidepressants cause depression?

at 9:31 AM, drnanjo drna...@aol.com wrote: I think much of the evidence suggest that these drugs are being given to people whose depression is arguably mild and would clear up on its own with time and/or lifestyle changes. I understand the drugs DO help the severely depressed

[tips] Need source for videos that can be placed online

Hello - I am teaching an online graduate level research course for an east coast university. In response to apparent complaints from students regarding lack of content delivery in online courses, I have been tasked to include some kind of lecture or video content in my class. I am using

Re: [tips] Need source for videos that can be placed online

://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: mbritt On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:40 AM, drnanjo wrote: Hello - I am teaching an online graduate level research course for an east coast university. In response to apparent complaints from students regarding lack of content delivery in online courses, I

Re: [tips] Annette's Presentation at APS

Congrats Annette. On your presentation and your big birthday in advance. I'll be at the readings (though staying at the westin). I'll be organizing the TIPS dinner from that base of operations. see you in two weeks. NJM -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor

[tips] TIPS AP reading

Hey kids, I'd like to organize our annual dinner at the AP Psychology reading, if you are down with that. I'll actually be staying at the Westin this year but it's only a mile from the site. Perhaps if Dr. Taylor is with us we can finally fulfill her dream of crossing the stateline to dine

Re: [tips] Where do I stand in the course? Was: Please check my paper BEFORE you grade it

I always ask them how they think they are doing. They do the work, they earn the grade. There is a certain passivity - offensive to me -implied in the question. They are not powerless. Although a lot of students appear to function under this misapprehension. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City

Re: [tips] Curious about department heads

Though I am a department head currenly, I can only speculate. I'd never ask to look at a faculty member's online course shell unless there were some compelling cause. And even with a compelling cause the union and contract tend to exert a lot of restrictions on such activity. For example,

Re: [tips] texter and gamer, Facebook addict and YouTube potato

Diego, CA 92110 tay...@sandiego.edu From: drnanjo [drna...@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2010 8:31 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] texter and gamer, Facebook addict and YouTube potato I can appreciate the concern that there may be a lot

Re: [tips] texter and gamer, Facebook addict and YouTube potato

I am going to dispute this on one basis. The introductory psychololgy class is WAY different, much harder than it was when we started undergraduate school. (1970s-1980s). Wasn't it almost nothing but Freud and Freudians, behaviorists and humanists? I would have put a gun in my mouth if it's

Re: [tips] texter and gamer, Facebook addict and YouTube potato

I can appreciate the concern that there may be a lot of young people ho are incapable of reading a complete novel or be as focused on tasks s some adults like but it ignores the kids who are into the Harry Potter ooks, the Narnia books, and many other book series. How are these ids able to

[tips] Trying to reach Annette Taylor

Hi everyone and sorry - please delete if you are not the illustrious Dr. Taylor. Annette will you write to me off list please? Thanks. Nancy Melucci Long Beach City College Long Beach CA --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here:

Re: [tips] Objective conclusions about sex differences

And given that diversity is always part of the picture, some of us females also have a higher threshold for the dirty house too... I was told than women are genetically programmed to be interested in clean houses and look for dirt. Apparently that little bit of the gene pool went right by

[tips] Pre-emptive strike

Before someone posts that tired old list by Beloit College (or some version of it) that purports to demonstrate how entirely different the class of 2014 is than us folk who graduated in the 80's and 70's are, please read this column. I share this author's opinion. the differences are mainly

Re: [tips] Where's Freud?

Mostly he is in our students 20th century Western (as in european/american) Fiction Literature class, where is the place he should be. Nancy Melucci Department Head Long Beach City College Starting the 18 week term - sigh -Original Message- From: Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com

Re: [tips] DSM and grieving

I just read the story. It is even more outrageous when they suggest that the grieving for the loss of a child - the worst possible lost, made even harder in modern times when so few of us experience it (so more isolating than ever in an already death denying culture) - is more like a treatable

Re: [tips] new findings on exercise and weight: direction of causation?

Women in particular are prone to experience increased appetite in response to exercise (reproductive/evolutionary agenda.) And most people are prone (regardless of gender) to use exercise as an excuse to eat more. I went around with a Time Magazine columnist last year about this, after his

Re: [tips] Does Being Plugged In Means You Ignore Your Kids?

I would like a little more information about women taking their children to work (as if the industrial revolution were kind of like one big take your kids to work day). The impression I had was that children were SENT to work. Not to be watched but to contribute to the family income.) There

Re: [tips] Does Being Plugged In Means You Ignore Your Kids?

I am still somewhat unconvinced of this interpretation. Children (and women) have worked forever to support the family - how can you be sure that taking them to work preceded making them work there (as opposed to they went to work because they had to do so.) What is the actual evidence for

Re: [tips] Does Being Plugged In Means You Ignore Your Kids?

I agree. I think it is the growth in narcissism of the contemporary parent AND the incredible money made by many entities off the cultivation of maternal guilt, anxiety and insecurity that fuels these studies and obsessions. Parents of both genders have worked hard for survival for eons and

Re: [tips] Does Being Plugged In Means You Ignore Your Kids?

Parents/mother cannot have been lavishing attention on them while they did chores and made goods. More affluent women frequently hired help including nannies and wet nurses.As is always the case, one of the hallmarks of making it is hiring help to do the less glamourous work in running your

Re: [tips] Top 10 challenging concepts

A couple of editorial comments (unwanted I am sure but I don't care): differentiating between the phallic and genital stage Since there is very little validity or empirical support for Freud's theoretical constructs of development and personality, I would say that there is no need to waste

[tips] The self-promotion moment

http://www.amazon.com/E-Z-Psychology-Barrons-Nancy-Melucci/dp/0764144626 I was allowed to do this in 2003 when the book was published originally, so here it is again. I hope it's OK with the PTB. I hope you will encourage your students to buy this second edition. In particular, I went

Re: [tips] The self-promotion moment

I know...weird isn't it? Nancy M. -Original Message- From: Annette Taylor tay...@sandiego.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@fsulist.frostburg.edu Sent: Thu, Apr 8, 2010 5:55 pm Subject: RE: [tips] The self-promotion moment How can there already be

[tips] On Facebook, FYI

An advertisement. I tried this link after I copied it - so it SHOULD work. http://www.facebook.com/drnanjo?ref=profile#!/pages/Get-100-Perfect-Scores-on-SCANTRON-TESTS-Clever-Exploit/105163662854385?ref=pymk I very rarely use Scantrons. I have always believed they are evil

Re: [tips] TIPS at the AP reading in KC

Nothing as bad as a hazing - but you will be pressured to be in an Acorn skit (Acorn being the term for a first-time reader). Your fellow Tipsters will protect you! Nancy m. -Original Message- From: David Kreiner krei...@ucmo.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)

[tips] TIPS at the AP reading in KC

In a social kind of mood this AM anyway, I'm at the reading this year. If the tax man is not too cruel to me, I may even be driving both ways (thus, I'll have a car). That's as maybe of course, but anyway, I'd like to know which Tipsters will be making the scene. And if we can put the

Re: [tips] Blackboards vs Whiteboards - Where to lean?

Hmmm...whiteboards are bad for your brain and nervous system, chalkboards are bad for your lungs. It doesn't seem like much of a choice, does it? If we put aside our health issues, it would seem that chalk may be hard on our clothes, but marker ink is harder. Is there an option C? Nancy

Re: [tips] Professor Suspended Over Facebook Venting

I do vent on Facebook about work...but nothing I wouldn't say in public at school. For example, a recent post I made about a student who had earned a D being given a second chance to turn in missing work. Said student became incensed when I refused to accept only part of what I required of him

Re: [tips] Neuroscientist Denied Tenure Goes On Shooting Spree

There IS research that suggests that media publicity for these events generates copy cat activity. At least dating back to Monroe's suicide. That is not to imply that this is the only cause. I meant that the touch of narcissistic entitlement that I think characterizes our culture, plus the

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