Aw, man, that's hard. After September 11 (I was living in Brooklyn and working on Long Island) I had to tread very carefully around a number of issues -- seemed like every third student either knew a firefighter or worker who was lost.
That's hard... ------- Marc L Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department of Psychology Baker University College of Arts & Sciences ------- "I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it the right way, did not become more complicated." -- Paul Anderson > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Dolan [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:56 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips] coincidence > > File this under awful coincidence: > > A student in my cognition class lost a parent in last week's > plane crash outside of Buffalo. This week's readings on > Attention (Ch. 4 in Sternberg's Cognitive Psychology) > included this passage: > > Consider an example of what Langer (1989) calls > "mindlessness." In 1982, a pilot and copilot went through a > routine checklist prior to takeoff. They mindlessly noted > that the anti-icer was "off," as it should be under most > circumstances. But it should not have been off under the icy > conditions in which they were preparing to fly. The flight > ended in a crash that killed 74 passengers. > > Ugh. What are the chances... > > Patrick > > > > -- > > Patrick O. Dolan, Ph.D. > Associate Professor and Chair of Psychology Drew University > Madison, NJ 07940 > 973-408-3558 > [email protected] > > > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
