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From: Christopher D. Green
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 4:43 PM
Subject: [tips] Re: Whatever happened to
Michael Sylvester wrote:
Christopher Green wrote:
Read Frank Beach's "The Snark was a Boojum" American Psychologist, 1950.
I can remember reading the article,but am unable to recall the details
Essentially, comparative psych had been overrun by behaviorism, with the
result that the only animal we had any substantial amount of information on was
the white rat.
And while on the subject of Comparative,how did the Worm Runners Digest
rank among the Comparative literature?
It was McConnell's personal project, and while it published some important
pieces, it was decidedly "alt."
Listen to my interview with Larry Stern about McConnell
(http://www.yorku.ca/christo/podcasts/ for Oct 23).
It seemed to me that most of the studies comparing and contrasting
species behavior were published in the British journal Nature.Publishing in
Nature was seen as the last resort when American Publications would turn down
articles.Publishing in Nature was analagous to publishing in the Journal of
Popular Culture.
I'm not sure where you got this idea. Nature is just about the most
prestigious scientific journal in the English language. It is the British
equivalent of Science (and older, to boot). Any scientist worth his or her salt
would rather have a publication in Nature than in ANY of the American
psychology journals.
Regards,
Chris
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Christopher D. Green
I guess Nature was game to publishing studies that had more global
appeal,but American Journals seem to demand a degree of specificity
and experimental rigidity and more strenuous peer and editorial review.
Anyway,wouldn't Nature be more like Psychological Record than like the
journal Science.There was lots of that ethological stuff in Nature.
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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