All I posted this on my psych department’s student information page today with a reminder to the students that eminence (or indirect assessments of it including influence, for example) are appeals to authority and specifically not necessarily good indicators of the scientific importance or meaningfulness of someone’s research or position. Quacks cite quackery, if I may be so bold. I urged them to look at the connection to other scientific data and research practices and to rely on the primary literature and their examinations of the theoretical and research designs. Are they good questions/hypotheses and are they well tested and supported? Are they replicated? Are the results respected by those outside the group publishing the data or is it a “scientific faction” which often happens with fads and research that is less commendable? (We are all familiar with those still practicing and publishing results of hypnotism, etc.) Tim _______________________________ Timothy O. Shearon, PhD Professor and Chairperson, Department of Psychology The College of Idaho Caldwell, ID 83605 email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
teaching: intro to neuropsychology; psychopharmacology; general; vision From: Claudia Stanny [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2014 8:47 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Psych science.? Thanks for this. Claudia _____________________________________________ Claudia J. Stanny, Ph.D. Director Center for University Teaching, Learning, and Assessment University of West Florida Pensacola, FL 32514 Phone: (850) 857-6355 (direct) or 473-7435 (CUTLA) [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> CUTLA Web Site: http://uwf.edu/offices/cutla/<http://uwf.edu/cutla/> Personal Web Pages: http://uwf.edu/cstanny/website/index.htm On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Gerald Peterson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Perhaps, another Psychologist I must use to illustrate the violation of scientific and ethical principles? http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/eminent-harvard-psychologist-mother-of-positive-psychology-new-age-quack/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=eminent-harvard-psychologist-mother-of-positive-psychology-new-age-quack G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D Psychology@SVSU --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d550&n=T&l=tips&o=40251 or send a blank email to leave-40251-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-40251-13144.1572ed60024e708cf21c4c6f19e7d...@fsulist.frostburg.edu> --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b177a&n=T&l=tips&o=40252 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-40252-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@fsulist.frostburg.edu<mailto:leave-40252-13545.bae00fb8b4115786ba5dbbb67b9b1...@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=40255 or send a blank email to leave-40255-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
