What might fit in here is something that I stumbled across yesterday in reading about open instruction initiatives at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh. Mischel talked in an APS Observer editorial about "The Toothbrush Problem" which describes that many psychologists tend to use their own pet theories instead of others' much like a person always uses their own toothbrush. That is, you would never use another person's toothbrush, right? The idea is that this creates fragmentation and lack of progress in psychology because we spend too much time trying to create our own theory rather than really building on other solid work. Mischel suggests that this is somewhat due to the pressures of the tenure process at large research universities. Read it here: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2430
Paul On Jun 9, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Lilienfeld, Scott O wrote: > Daryl Bem was my undergraduate advisor at Cornell from 1978 to 1982. He was > beginning to conduct work on psi (using the ganzfeld procedure, if I recall) > even back then. He also spoke quite favorably about the possibiilty of > paranormal phenomena in his courses. So he has certainly been open to the > existence of psi for many decades. The article's implication that data > "changed his mind" following many years of skepticsm of psi strikes me as > exceedingly dubious. > > ..Scott > > > ________________________________________ > From: Helweg-Larsen, Marie [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 2:18 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: RE: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem > > When Bem came to give a talk at Dickinson he said that he had been > investigating paranormal events for many years. He said it was a long > interest of his and he always worked with undergraduate students so as to not > harm the career of graduate students. Surely you would not keep testing > hypotheses if you didn't think they were likely or possibly true. > > Also, just like his precognition paper is probably not true his theory of > sexual orientation is not true (something he alluded to when he gave his > talk). But of course it is the nature of the scientific process that others > can replicate (or fail to replicate) your findings. Now if we could just get > journals to accept replications studies and null results! > > Marie > > > Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. > Associate Professor l Department of Psychology > Kaufman 168 l Dickinson College > Phone 717.245.1562 l Fax 717.245.1971 > http://users.dickinson.edu/~helwegm/index.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Clark [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 12:13 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] The Psi-chology of Darryl Bem > > Hi > > Part of the problem with Bem's advice to "tell a story" (i.e., "make up a > story"?) when writing papers is that one can never be sure what is fact and > what is just for the sake of the story. Here, for example, the "tell a > story" model makes me skeptical that Bem was as unsympathetic to paranormal > phenomena as claimed in the article. After all, isn't the story better if he > was really a skeptic and then was forced to change his mind, rather than that > he set out to demonstrate something that he already believed? > > Take care > Jim > > > James M. Clark > Professor of Psychology > 204-786-9757 > 204-774-4134 Fax > [email protected] > >>>> "Jeffry Ricker, PhD" <[email protected]> 06-Jun-12 7:20 pm >>>>>>> > Paranormal Circumstances: One Influential Scientist's Quixotic Mission to > Prove ESP Exists From his research to his personal life, Daryl Bem's never > been one to follow the crowd. > by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee > From the March 2012 issue; published online May 14, 2012 > > "...Even in the context of a career of irreverence, there was little to > suggest that Bem would end up defending the possibility of extrasensory > perception, or ESP, which most mainstream scientists consider unworthy of > serious inquiry. Through most of his career, he was as dubious about > telepathy (mind reading) or precognition (seeing the future) as any of his > colleagues. Then data changed his mind...." > > FULL TEXT AT: > http://discovermagazine.com/2012/mar/09-paranormal-circumstances-scientist-mission-esp > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. > SCC: Professor of Psychology > MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: > http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Scottsdale Community College > 9000 E. 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