Ah, yes, my political science colleague Courtney Brown brings up some very old memories. See the link below for a piece (now 14 years old) by yours truly in an Emory publication...it did not exactly endear me to Brown, as you can well imagine (although to give him his due, he has been cordial to me in our few subsequent interactions).
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1996/September/ERsept.9/9_9_96first_person.html ...Scott Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 [email protected] (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 12:45 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Mike Palij Subject: [tips] Criminal Mind Reading: Pseudoscience Or Next Great Grant Opportunity? An article on the www.Time.com website reports on a study that was recently published in the journal Psychophysiology on using the P300 wave as the basis for identifying the presence of guilty knowledge of an event, such as the plans for a terrorist attack; see: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2009131,00.html?iid=tsmodule Interviews with the authors of the research article show that there is great hope for the procedure (why it might even be better than using a polygraph!) as well as acknowledging that there are a number of kinks to work out. As one indicator of the "validity" of this research, it is receiving funding from the U.S. Department of Defense. That will come as cold comfort to anyone who has seen the movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" (and even less comfort to those who have read Jon Ronson's book "The Men Who Stare At Goats -- it was decided that the movie would be a feel good comedy even though Ronson's nonfiction book has very definite feel bad components such as how the "First Earth Battalion" helped to train one of the 9/11 hijackers and was related to the remote viewing work by Emory U's Courtney Brown which in turn led to the Heaven's Gate mass suicide; For First Earth Battalion, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion For Courtney Brown, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney_Brown_%28researcher%29 For Heaven's Gate, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_%28religious_group%29 When Ronson interviewed Brown about Heaven's Gate, Brown appeared to distance himself from the group. A refrain that Brown used was: "I'm an academic", meaning that he couldn't held responsible for what non-academics did with what he said or promoted. For some reason the phrase "I'm an academic" elicited in my memory the phrase "I'm a professional" used by the kidnappers and criminals in the movie "Man on Fire". Oh, one last feel bad item, the use of Barney the dinosaur's "I Love You" song in torturing Iraqi detainees). -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9b2f&n=T&l=tips&o=4053 or send a blank email to leave-4053-13509.d0999cebc8f4ed4eb54d5317367e9...@fsulist.frostburg.edu This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4054 or send a blank email to leave-4054-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
