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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:35:03 EST
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From:         Matthew Simpson <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: request from you all

On Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:14:00 EST Todd.Nelson said:
>
>Does anyone have a copy of the posting "science & psychology" (posted about
>1-2 weeks ago by myself) ? I inadvertently deleted it, before I could print
>out a hard copy. If anyone still has a copy of that original posting, I would
>be grateful if you could forward a copy to me!!

Once again, if anyone has seen an item on PSYCGRAD and would like to
retrieve it, use the database.  In Todd's case, all he needed to do
is send these commands to listserv@uottawa

//
Database Search DD=Rules
//Rules DD   *
Search science and psych and todd in psycgrad since 93/1/1
Index
Print
/*

An incredibly user-friendly document is available about this feature of
listserv by sending the command GET PSYCGRAD DATABASE to listserv@uottawa.
I hope this helps.

Have fun.  :-)

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From:         PCABE@PEMBVAX1.PEMBROKE.EDU
Subject:      Commentary on position announcements...

The recent announcement of positions available at Radfor University prompts
this note, though it is not intended to reflect on Radford per se (...fine
school, up and coming, stars in attendance, well worth considering if you
have the needed credentials,etc., etc.,)

It would be enormously helpful if those of you who post position announcements
would give an indication of the teaching responsibilities expected: particularly
the number of courses (or hours or some such), the level of teaching expected
(e.g, undergrad, grad), and the topical areas.

Having reviewed several mountains of applications, it is patently clear that
some individuals expect to have a very active research career and that that
is their priority. Others expect primarily to teach. If more information
about teaching, since it becomes such a black hole for time, is available in
position announcements, potential applicants might make more reasonable
decisions about situations that they might more readily fit into (or not),
saving their money and aggravation, as well as the time (and equivalent
aggravation) of those reviewing the applications.

Thanks.
Pat Cabe
Pembroke State Univ.
Pembroke, NC 28372
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From: aharris@james.psych.runet.edu (Al Harris)
Subject: position available
Organization: Radford University
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:13:12 GMT


Two positions availabe in Psychology at Radford University. Developmental
and Experimental Psychology.  Ph.D required.  Teach graduate and
undergraduate courses, 12 hour teaching load.  Research expected. Send
vita, transcripts, and three recent letters of recommendation to A.V.
Harris, Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Radford University, Radford, Va 24142.
Fax 703 831-6113. E mail aharris@james.psych.runet.edu.  Radford
University is an equal opportunity employer.  Women and Minorities are
encouraged to apply.


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From:         CASE ELIZABETH <PSYGRDDEC@ORION.DEPAUL.EDU>
Subject:      RE: CowPlop Fans

It's called BIRGing -- Basking In Reflected Glory.  Whenever a team is
doing well, you suddenly see a lot of T-shirts and other signs of support.
It makes people feel good to  be associated with a winner.  As soon as the
winner becomes a loser, however, support will also drop.

Doesn't make die-hard fans feel so good, though...

Elizabeth
psygrddec@orion.depaul.edu
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:35:00 EST
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From:         Kathryn Irene Snyder <IRENES@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      CALL FOR PAPERS

  ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE PSYCHOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENT JOURNAL
                    REQUEST FOR PAPERS

**Feature Topic: Psychophysics and Perception
Papers are being requested in the areas of PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PERCEPTION.
Papers on any topic in the field of perception, including but not
limited to visual, auditory, tactile, and olfactory perception are
invited. Also, any researchers using  psychophysical methodology, in
perception or other fields of psychology,are encouraged to submit.
**Please send your submissions to...
**Editor: Irene Snyder
          irenes@unc.bitnet
          irenes@unc.oit.unc.edu
  Articles which have been accepted for publication will be compiled
  into a volume of The Psychology Graduate Student Journal: The
  PSYCGRAD Journal (c).

  (c) The Psychology Graduate Student Journal is a production of The
  PSYCGRAD Project (Copyright by Matthew Simpson).


REQUIREMENTS:

1. All submitted articles should be in text format.

2. All articles should contain a table of contents outlined according to
   1 Main topic number one
   1.1 First sub-topic of main topic one
   1.1.1 First sub-sub-topic of main topic one
   1.2 Second sub-topic of main topic one
   2 Second main topic

3. Each paragraph should begin with the appropriate number outlined in
   the table of contents.

   (Items 2 and 3, mentioned above, are necessary because bold and
   italic fonts are not recognized on most electronic-mail systems).

4. Each line should be no greater than 70 columns in width.  This is
   necessary to decrease line-wrapping across systems.

5. APA guidelines must be adhered to (except where otherwise
   inconvenienced by electronic format, eg. items above)

6. Articles must not have been published elsewhere in written form.
   (Not published in journals; May have been posters or talks at
   conferences)
   Articles accepted for publication in The PSYCGRAD Journal may
   be published elsewhere at a later date.

7. After the title of each article, the author's name, postal address,
   e-mail address and affiliated institution must appear.

8. A list of keywords must also be provided.
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 08:55:30 EST
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From:         Todd D Nelson <nelsont1@STUDENT.MSU.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Reposting of Bathroom study that started all this.
              Jan 28, 93 1:55 am

>
> Hiya,
> Since a couple of people have requested to see the original posting
> that started this bathroom/ethics discussion, here it is again.
> Tis interesting that my original concern (Subj: Validity of self
> report data) hasn't been the major focus of discussion. :)
> Betty
>

Betty,

Check out an interesting (if a bit old now) study by John Pryor (social
psychologist at Illinois State University......who supervised my Master's
thesis). Pryor and his colleagues found that the validity of self-report
questionnaires can be affected by such factors as: habituation to
self-focusing stimuli, cross-situational consistency of subjects' behavior,
and the degree to which the questionnaire reflects the subject's actual
behavior. They assert that if the face validity of the questionnaire is
high, subjects who are motivated to be consistent will bring their behavior
and self-report in close relation.


Pryor, J. B., Gibbons, F. X., Wicklund, R. A., Fazio, R. H., & Hood, R. (1977).
      Self-focused attention and self-report validity. JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY,
      45, 513-527.


Best,

Todd D. Nelson
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:01:03 -0500
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From:         20SSMITH@GALLUA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Left-handers as achievers

Mixed dominance
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:05:00 EST
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From:         Kathryn Irene Snyder <IRENES@UNC.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Deep Thoughts

It's been done. Mark Twain, *A Conneticu Yankee in King Arthur's Court*.
Irene Snyder
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:32:57 EST
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From:         jlbugg@UCCS.EDU
Subject:      for the benefit of John Kline

You should start reading the Cowplop literature.  It has become quite
academic in nature.  The topic of football is central to our culture and
study of human beings.  ALL of the members of psycgrad are graduate
students with ability and intelligence - I have stated this in a prior
mail but you wouldn't have read it as it was under the title of cowplop -
and it is insulting to many of us that you would assume to know what is
more appropriate and academically worthy to our time as if we didn't know
this ourselves.
Jennifer
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From:         Sunni <bjreilman@UCCS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Left-handers as achievers

DON'T WORRY LARRY. YOU COULD ALWAYS BECOME PRESIDENT - LOTS OF LEFTIES THERE
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:49:00 EST
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From:         "Todd.Nelson" <22817MGR@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Definitions

APS = American Psychological Society
MPA = Midwestern Psychological Association
SPSP = Society for Personality and Social Psychology

(those are the coolest ones, the ones I belong to. -----    :)

I've heard from a few people, but not all 478 of you: WHO IS GOING TO APS and
MPA (both in Chicago in June, and April-May, respectively)???

Lemme know

Todd D. Nelson
22817MGR@MSU.bitnet
NELSONT1@student.msu.edu (internet)
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:58:03 EST
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From:         barry <CMSPSY20@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Ethics
              28 Jan 1993 10:17:45 -0500 from <szikopou@CCS.CARLETON.CA>

Publish or perish, per se, is not the problem.  As I see it, the problem
is composed of two (perhaps inseparable) components.  First there is the
p & p component.  But compounding the problem significantly is the fact
that the journals and other avenues refuse to publish non-significant
results.  Seems to me that the development of a "true science" is as much
predicated on wide dissemination of what doesn't work as it is on the
wide dissemination of what does work.

Another $.02

barry
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:13:38 EST
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From:         Todd D Nelson <nelsont1@STUDENT.MSU.EDU>
Subject:      Constraining the Net

I have to agree with John Kline and Matthew on this issue. I have to admit that
some of these postings on the net of late have their place, but not on
the net. Tor says that these types of postings are great, because they sho
that we can concern ourselves iwth the 'real world' issues, and try to
apply our collective knowledge & experience toward 'real world'
issues (if you can call the cowplop postings an 'issue').

I like to joke around as much as the next person (and you all can attest to
that viz my postings), however, I believe that we SHOULD try to constrain the
parameters of what we discuss to more "ivory tower' types of postings. That
doesn't mean we have to be TOTALLY academic, or that the Psycgrad net has to
take on the feel of a journal, with some editorial board deciding which
postings are "acceptable" and which ones aren't, .....It just means that we
should refrain from getting too inane (what a poet I am). Anyway, I hope that
doesn't sound too high-n-mighty.....

Best,

Todd Nelson
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From: lpb@cs.bham.ac.uk (Luc Beaudoin)
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Subject: A request for references on OCD
Summary: OCD references request
Keywords: OCD,obsessive compulsive disorder, cognitive theory, computational modelling, attention
Date: 25 Jan 93 18:22:57 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Hi,

I'm looking for references to theories of obsessive compulsive disorder.
I'm particularly interested in computational theories (not necessarily
quantitative theories) which explain the phenomena in terms of
breakdown(s) in  normal cognitive functioning.

Would someone provide me with pertinent literature? If there aren't any
computational cognitive theories, the most popular OCD theories would
do.

Thanks,

Luc

P.s., Advert:

Here at Birmingham, Aaron Sloman, myself, and colleagues are working on
a theory of affect and attention. I intend to use this theory to explain
some phenomena of OCD. A paper of ours on affect and attention, which is
to appear in the proceedings of AISB/93 is accessible from
ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk as pub/dist/papers/cog_affect/motive_processing.ps.Z

See also:
   pub/dist/papers/cog_affect/motive_processing.ps.Z
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:45:00 EST
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From:         "Todd.Nelson" <22817MGR@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Corn-ventions

Hey kiddies,

Is anyone planning on going to MPA or APS this April & June, respectively?

I am, and am wondering who else is!

Best,

Todd D. Nelson
Michigan State University
22817MGR@MSU.bitnet
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From:         Tom Downey <downey@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>
Subject:      A Challenge From the "Steel Tower" to the "Ivory Tower"

I am working on a presentation for an Aviation Safety Conference.

The challenge:  My company produces airplanes with high technology
displays, (CRTs) and with automatic flight controls.  Some of the
complaints that have been registered in the past are that this may reduce
human error (through automation of some procedures) but it does increase the
workload for the pilots (the flight engineer position was eliminated about
10-15 yrs. ago)  The specific complaints are:

        *  Increased cognitive workload
        *  Pilot "out of the loop" with the airplane
        *  Pilots relegated to a "monitoring" or "management" role, see
                vigilance research
        *  Increased air traffic in the future, more airport congestion
        *  The role of communications, team building, conflict management,
                decision making, situational awareness, stress management
                in a high technology environment (flight deck, operating room,
                nuclear power plant control room, etc.)

The question is whether you have found any research (or have educated and
objective(?)) opinions on the subject of:

        1.  How do high technology job aids affect the person-person,
        person-machine, person-person-machine relationships.
        2.  Is there an optimal level or threshold of assistance from
        technology that will enable the human to operate at peak
        efficiency (or are we dealing with many confounding factors like
        individual differences here?
        3.  How much can/should/will we rely on automation to do the job?
        4.  Is this a learned skill and will people become more accepting
        and comfortable (as we have seen with younger vs. older people
        and personal computers.)
        5.  Are there any lessons that we have learned in the years of
        psych. research we have done and studied that will help us to make
        informed, data-based decisions about the human factors and the high tech
        flight deck?

This is a bit of a fishing expedition but I thought it would be
interesting to hear your comments on a real-world application.

Thanks for your help.

Tom
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From:         Eric Zorrilla <zorrilla@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU>
Subject:      Re: A request for references on OCD

> In regards to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) refs., there is a
> very recent article by Lewis R. Baxter and a whole slew of co-authors
> (10 of them!) that has sparked a great deal of interest lately. Although
> it doesn't put forth a computational theory I think it's a good read.

Yes, I agree, this is a good article.

> Basically, these guys found that behavior therapy has as great an effect
> in reducing OCD symptoms (as measured by PET scan) as drug therapy

I don't mean to quibble, but "PET abnormalities" and "symptoms" are not
the same things.  Generally, signs and symptoms are to used to describe
VISIBLE indicators and patient self-reports, respectively.  It's not quite
appropriate to refer to physiological aberrations as "symptoms" because
we don't know how they are or are not related to the symptoms and because
symptoms are generally used to refer to an underlying pathophysiology and
physiological changes may, in reality, BE that underlying pathophysiology.

As a point of fact, it's not really all that insignificant.  Physical changes
are demonstrable for a number of manipulations where clinical improvement
is not observed.  We get excited when the clinical symptoms and the physiolo-
gical measures change in lockstep.

> (Ss were administered fluoxetine hydrochloride.  It sounds dangerous
> to me...I hope I never have to take it).

It sounds much more dangerous than it is (That's just Prozac).
:)

Eric
From: darren@zikzak.apana.org.au (Darren Brett Gower)
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Subject: Re: Left-handers as achievers
Date: 22 Jan 1993 02:40:33 +1100
Organization: Zikzak public access UNIX, Melbourne Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: zikzak.apana.org.au

"Gerri Oppedisano (8-863-7225)" <gerri@WATSON.IBM.COM> writes:

>> It would seem that there are degrees of left-handedness.  For example, I
>> [...]

>I'm the same way, except I do almost everything else with my right hand except
>write.. I play tennis and bat rightie, cut steak and use scissors with my right
>hand fine, etc.. Maybe we're doubly endowed (..or doubly defective?!).

But this type of 'dual-handedness' behaviour (from which I, too, suffer) is
more probably learned rather than naturally developed, don't you
think? I am 'only' 25, but even in my lower primary school days there was a
tendancy to teach 'right handed'... Think of demonstrations of the
use of bat and ball games, even the use of knife and fork. Most
people learn by example, and I'm fairly confident that give a chance to
develop such skill naturally (that is, without the 'pollution' :-) of
a right handed teacher) that the average left hander would tend to remain
a 'pure' lefty.

Opinions?

regards,
Darren.
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:24:00 EST
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From:         "Todd.Nelson" <22817MGR@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      Post-docs

Nancy Darling,

Thank you for your very informative and interesting post on your experience as
a post-doc!!! I found it very helpful, and am sure that as I near that stage,
I will consider the wisdom you've imparted to us! Thanks again!

Todd D. Nelson
Michigan State University
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:07:00 EDT
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From:         KMORGAN@WHEATNMA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: Prisoner's Dilemma

On a related topic, I have been looking for a copy of an OLD
Kagan article about "Tit-for-Tat" strategies in south american
kids (but not white american kids).  Something to the effect of
the south american kids taking turns winning a game that could
only be won by the cooperation of one's opponent, while
american kids could come up with no such solution, and as a
consequence the game always ended in a draw.  Does anyone know
this reference?  Specifically, it is the GAME that I am
interested in.  I wanted to use it in class, to see if I could
elicit some resolutions to the "Prisoner's Dilemma."
Thanks!
--Kathy Morgan
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