Those are 5 good reasons for missing it but your second number 4 was actually not true. (Since there were two number 4's, you still have a total of five good reasons for missing it.) The story did appear in the headline summary sent out by NYTimes this morning as the second story in the New York section, which is right above the obituaries. :)
Rick Dr. Rick Froman Professor of Psychology Box 3519 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [email protected] (479) 524-7295 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 10:31 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Cc: Michael Palij Subject: re: [tips] False memory example On Fri, 15 May 2015 07:55:40 -0700, Rick Froman wrote: >Whenever I see a psych-related story in the NY Times, I wait to see if >Mike Palij will post it. He almost never fails but after the dress >color post this morning, I thought that maybe he had overlooked this >one: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/15/nyregion/witness-accounts-in-midtown > -hammer-attack-show-the-power-of-false-memory.html I plead guilty as charged. In my own defense, I have to admit: (1) I gave a statistics final exam last night which I am recovering from. (2) There was also a paper due on the analysis of two experiments and there were so many grandparents who died this week. Oh! The Humanity! (3) To be honest, I saw something about this story on TV but I did not watch it to closely because the number of such attacks seemed to have gone up, especially in NYC recently. (4) The Shepard Smith Fox News foul-up about an eyewitness who was describing WHAT HE WAS SEEING (i.e., a person being shot by cop but that never happened) pretty much trumps this but it is always useful to gather such instances. (4) This particular story was not in the email news listing I get every morning from the NY Times (I was actually saddened by the news of the death of Blues Legend B.B. King, RIP). (5) I scan the news.google.com "top news" page and while there was a entry on the "dress" which was on the BBC website (where I found out that Karl Gegenfurtner had done some of the research; another former student of G. Sperling who survived the experience and has prospered ;-) ;-) ;-) <- Just in case George sees this. For punishment, please don't make me watch any reality shows, especially ones involving Kardashians. The "Naked and Afraid" series, however, has a certain carwreck attraction. Can't figure out what rule they follow to blur the butts and when to leave them fully exposed. >It is an interesting and brief real life example of false memory that >allows for video comparison to bystander reports. Thanks for pointing this out, it will be useful in the cognitive psychology class. >The article quotes Dr. Strange Boy! I can't wait until his Disney movie comes out. The TV movie that featured a weird version of Dr. Strange blew smoke rings (insert your own term here; see http://www.amazon.com/Dr-Strange-Movie-Peter-Hooten/dp/6300182029/ref=sr_1_3?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1431703535&sr=1-3&keywords=Peter+Hooten). Kinda like the old Captain American movies don't compare with the new ones (see: http://www.amazon.com/Captain-America-II-Death-Soon/dp/B005G5NPD8/ref=pd_bxgy_74_img_y ) >of John Jay and Dr. Loftus of UC Irvine for research context. Ah, the usual suspects. Nice, nice, very nice. So many people in the same device (i.e., research area). Again, thanks. -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=13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5f8a&n=T&l=tips&o=44814 or send a blank email to leave-44814-13039.37a56d458b5e856d05bcfb3322db5...@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=44816 or send a blank email to leave-44816-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
