Looks like our field is going to take another beating by the press over this
affluenza business. The case certainly touches sensitive cultural nerves:
anger about how the rich can get away with murder, anger whenever inequality is
found. Unfortunately, we also see a theme we've all heard
On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:39:53 -0600 (CST), Joan Warmbold wrote:
Carol--consider contacting the Skinner foundation via his daughter,
Julie
Vargas at opera...@bfskinner.org. Folks who knew Skinner have told me
that he had a wonderful sense of humor so bet he would have had an
opinion.
Certainly
With all this talk about women taking on new roles and
challenges, it is important to remember the forerunners who
helped pave the way for today's women. Here is an
NY Times obituary on one such woman:
From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:36 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc: Michael Palij
Subject: Re:[tips] While we are on the topic of Skinner
... A behavioral account might be relevant to certain
Reread my Catania quote on multiple determination of (verbal) behavior.
On Jan 17, 2014, at 9:08 AM, William Scott wrote:
From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:36 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Cc:
It appeared fine here. Enjoyed the reference too...and the picture.
G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D
Psychology@SVSU
On Jan 17, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
jeff.ric...@scottsdalecc.edu wrote:
I'm going to try this again because it seems that my email consisted of a
bunch of
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On Jan 17, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Gerald Peterson wrote:
It appeared fine here. Enjoyed the reference too...and the picture.
Thanks. Perhaps it's a problem with our email system. I'll check into it.
Best,
Jeff
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From a behavioral viewpoint verbal behavior IS behavior and obeys the same
basic laws.
The -situations- in which it occurs are unique, leading to unique analyses
(there are journals filled with these).
And it's an oversimplification to say that
Skinner did not believe in the study of
-Original Message-
From: Mike Palij [mailto:m...@nyu.edu]
A behavioral account might be relevant to certain situations but are unlikely
in others (e.g., how would a behaviorist explain satire?).
-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu
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I
A followup to Rick's comments.
Skinner once described the following situation. (I am blanking on the
source.) He had made an off-the-cuff joke which produced a strong
reaction in his audience. He describes going back to his office and
trying to remember the words and intonation he used so
And remember the 'Two Freds' (Skinner and Keller) presentations at ABA
(Association for Behavior Analysis) meetings!
On Jan 17, 2014, at 11:04 AM, Ken Steele wrote:
A followup to Rick's comments.
Skinner once described the following situation. (I am blanking on the
source.) He had made
Paul,
You've written two posts and I'll try to answer your points.
I will snip some of your statements below in order to save
space and make the text more readable. I will number my
points in order to make them easier to refer to in subsequent
posts. Consider the following points:
(1) I don't
Thank you all for your wonderful responses. I know Mike curmudgeonly
insisted that being vague was a bad idea, but I disagree. The very
vagueness of my question allowed for many very rich responses. In reality,
the word humor wasn't as vague as the question, which also included
laughter and mirth,
It's about medicine, but the connection to psychology is obvious.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2014/01/17/when-science-isnt-science-based-in-class-with-dr-john-ioannidis/
Teaser: Last week at the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. John Ioannidis –
a Stanford professor and Science-ish hero – told a
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