I think this paper reminds me of some of the discussions recently on TIPS
Jim Matiya Visiting Instructor in Psychology Florida Gulf Coast University [email protected] > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:18:32 -0500 > Subject: [tips] writer's block - end of the semester humor > > Dear TIPS: > > Some of you may have known about this classic 1974 paper (if so, I > apologize), but I just learned about it yesterday from the Mind Hacks > website. I have shared it with our graduate students. > > > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/pdf/jaba00061-0143a.pdf > > > 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: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:34 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Cc: Mike Palij > Subject: re: [tips] something new? > > On Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:20:14 -0800, Annette Taylor wrote: > >Have any of you heard of either the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument(r) > >(HBDI(r)) or Whole Brain(r) Thinking? This sounds like more megabuck > >psychobabble > >that is bleeding businesses and individuals without any evidence to back it > >up. > >You can google if you haven't heard about it but I just can't find any > >critiques. > > I hadn't heard about it before but googling does reveal a Wikipedia entry > that provides a description and some critiques; see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrmann_Brain_Dominance_Instrument > > The HBDI is not exactly new. There apparently had been studies using > it back in the 1980s, such as: > > DeWald, R. E. (1989). Relationships of MBTI types and HBDI preferences > in a population of student program managers (Doctoral dissertation, Western > Michigan University, 1989). Dissertation Abstracts International, 50(06), > 2657B. > (University Microfilms No. AAC89-21867) > > Krause, M. G. (1987, June). A comparison of the MBTI and the Herrmann > Participant Survey. Handout from presentation at APT-VII, the Seventh > Biennial International Conference of the Association for Psychological Type, > Gainesville, FL > > Terence Hines appears to have been a a critic of the theory and several of > his publications are listed on the Wikipedia entry identified above. Hines > has a Wikipedia entry too but it is very brief and somewhat misleading. > Hines is a psychologist at Pace University (Westchester campus) and has > been active in the skeptics community with publications on a variety of > topics. > > -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=6880 > or send a blank email to > leave-6880-13509.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=13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139710&n=T&l=tips&o=6904 > or send a blank email to > leave-6904-13283.28aec02f231f4c4baa9a4a58ae139...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- 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=6905 or send a blank email to leave-6905-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
