I have been spending some time on Linkedin (got sucked in because of former students sending me invites) and though I have tried to keep contacts on a professional level, there are some folks that one might characterize as "interesting" (as in the old Chinese saying "May you live in interesting times). One such person is Gad Saad who seems to have too much time on his hands and seems to be heavy into self-promotion. There is even a Wikipedia entry on him; see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad_Saad The best I can figure out is that he started out in Canadian colleges and went on get a Ph.D. at Cornell under someone named Edward Russo; see: (NOTE: I'm not saying anything about that photo) https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=jer9 and went on to some sort of position at Concordia (seems to be an endowed chair which always raises questions).
Looking at his publications on scholar.google.com it appears that early on he seemed to be a more or less traditional cognitive psychologist (even making some presentation a the meetings of the Society for Computers in Psychology which historical meets before the Psychonomics meeting; my mentor Doris Aaronson was involved in SCiP) but somewhere along they way he appears to have gone off the rails, focusing on evolutionary psychology and consumer psychology (not necessarily bad things but raises certain issues). Not as bad as, say, publishing article in the journal "Intelligence". ;-) These days he seems to be more involved in doing podcasts (thank God these things will die out soon), making appearances on TV shows, and making weird posts to Linkedin. Apparently trying to become a pop psychologist which always pays better than being an academic. But for some reason he reminds of the comedian Marc Maron, perhaps best known for his recent TV series on IFC (see his Wiki entry) except Saad is not as funny a Maron. So, what's is the story about Saad from Canadians who are familiar with him? You can contact me off-list if you like but I would appreciate a public discussion if possible. Send me something. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu P.S. It is "interesting" (see definition above) to be living in the same city as Voldemort and all of the protests (some by students from NYU starting at Washington Square Park and moving uptown). To get some idea of how "popular" Voldemort is in Manhattan, see the following which give a map of voting patterns in Manhattan at some surrounding areas but with an emphasis on the Lower East Side: http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2016/11/heres-how-many-voters-picked-trump-on-the-lower-east-side.html I'm still trying to figure out who the 7% in the East Village who voted to Voldemort. .P.P.S Think that NYU is a bastion of "Liberal PC Hellfire"? You are not alone as one of out faculty expressed these ideas though on Twitter under the pseudonym "Deplorable Professor". Michael Rectenwald; a op-ed he wrote for the Washington Post can be accessed here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/03/campus-pc-culture-is-so-rampant-that-nyu-is-paying-to-silence-me/?utm_term=.c94cd6997e83 NOTE: Rectenwald at first implied he was forced to take a leave from NYU but it turns out that he had requested a leave -- see the updated Editor Note at the bottom of the WaPo piece and: https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2016/november/email-correspondence-between-professor-michael-rectenwald-and-de.html So, what is the current status of the self-righteous anti-PC faculty member? He got a promotion; see: http://nypost.com/2016/11/13/nyu-awards-promotion-and-full-time-gig-to-deplorable-professor/ Damn! Sound like being anti-PC really pays off! ;-) --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=49914 or send a blank email to leave-49914-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
