I agree with Chris. Overmier is right. It is too bad that Overmier
doesn't have a ghost of a chance of being elected. I knew Bruce Overmier
at Minnesota in the early 70's. He led a brown bag lunch seminar in
learning that was absolutely and totally inspiring. At the time, he and
Seligman were having a disagreement concerning the meaning of the
failure of dogs to be trained in avoidance learning subsequent to being
subjected to aversive pavlovian conditioning. Bruce conceived of it as
"fear robbery" while Mr. S., of course, wanted to call it "learned
helplessness". Bruce wanted to stay close to the data and didn't want to
speculate about what appeared to be cognitive processes proposed by
Seligman. We know who won that one, but I was completely impressed by
Overmier's refusal to stray from the data, and Seligman's desire to make
it into something it was not. Striking a chord in the public (or general
psychological readership) with the description seemed to be more
important for Mr. S., in my humble opinion. Which of the two would
become president of apa? We know the answer. Not both.
Bill Scott
Christopher D. Green wrote:
I would like to draw attention to J. Bruce Overmier's APA presidential
candidate's statement in the May issue of AP Monitor. It seems to me
that he gets everything just about right with respect to what's
currently wrong with the APA. Have a look when you get a chance.
Regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M3J 1P3
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: 416-736-5115 ext. 66164
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http://www.yorku.ca/christo/
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