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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:04:18 -0500
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From:         Rick Adams <adamsr@AIS.ORG>
Subject:      Re: deep thought 2
              93 11:51:00 pm

=> I believe we should preserve the planet
=> for our children
=> but NOT our children's children
=> because I don't believe children
=> should be having sex
=>
        Sort of depends on the _age_ of those children, doesn't it?

        Of course, most children don't think their _parents_ should be
having sex, so . . .


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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:19:03 EST
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From:         barry <CMSPSY20@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: A Challenge From the "Steel Tower" to the "Ivory Tower"
              22 Jan 1993 08:37:47 -0800 from <downey@U.WASHINGTON.EDU>

Tom,

I can't comment on your research directly, because I have no expertise
in this area.  However, I suggest you correspond with Rob Mahan at the
University of Georgia.  He has worked on several similar research
projects for the military over the last few years.  You can reach him
via bitnet as Mahan@UGA.edu.cc.edu.

Barry
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:23:33 -0700
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From:         Matthew Prull <PRULLM@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.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.
Basically, these guys found that behavior therapy has as great an effect
in reducing OCD symptoms (as measured by PET scan) as drug therapy
(Ss were administered fluoxetine hydrochloride.  It sounds dangerous
to me...I hope I never have to take it). These authors go on to
hypothesize a general model of brain regions that may be responsible
for OCD...here's the ref:

Baxter, L.R., et al. (1992).  Caudate glucose metabolic rate changes
        with both drug and behavior therapy for OCD.  _Archives of
        General Psychiatry_, 49, 681-689.

Have fun!  (<---credit due to Matthew Simpson, of course.  I don't want
to steal anyone's thunder!  :)

Matthew Prull
prullm@cgsvax.claremont.edu
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Date:         Sat, 23 Jan 1993 08:20:01 EST
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From:         Sunni <bjreilman@UCCS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Left-handers as achievers

Darren, many people, which I stated earlier are not true left handers, they
are what a professor here calls a non right hander. True left handers have
right hemisphere dominance,whereas most left handers still are lefthemisphere
dominant just like right handers, which could also explain the tendency to
do many things with your right hand, and not just the pollution of right
handed teachers. This is not the 1920's and teachers don't beat lefties, and
make them write with their right hands anymore.
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:19:36 -0500
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From:         20SSMITH@GALLUA.BITNET
Subject:      Gays in the military...from u know who

Yep its me ya'll so tell me what your opinions on this whole
flap...WHAT is the big deal...surely there is an orderly way for
this business of lifting the ban on gays in the military to proceed...
I am especially having a hard time with what I view as the hypocrisy
of women and minorities who are in the military and dead set against
lifting the ban...my goodness they wouldn't even be there if the government
had adhered to that logic with regards to integrating the military or
allowing women to serve...

Sybil
Keeper of the Diversity Flame
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From:         Paul / University of Florida <PLOWRY@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Ethics

CACREP, the acreditation arm of the American Counseling Association (formerly
the American Association for Counseling and Development (AACD), requires an
ethic course of all of its programs.  All the different tracks are counseling
tracks though.  I can't imagine that APA would not require an ethics course for
 any/all of its accredited programs.     Paul, Elementary School Counseling.
              An ounce of prevention is worth a ....
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From:         "Todd.Nelson" <22817MGR@MSU.BITNET>
Subject:      deep thought 2

I believe we should preserve the planet
for our children
but NOT our children's children
because I don't believe children
should be having sex
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Date:         Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:23:27 -0700
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From:         WAGNERL@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Re: the matching hypothesis

        I don't doubt that there would be a correlation between the
apparent "attractiveness" in "dating" couples.  I would also expect
a correlation with respect to intellegence, education, SES, race,
and sex (negative value presumably).  This doesn't mean I don't think there
are mixed race or same sex couples, just that "on average" the matching
would be better than chance.  No real surprise that on obvious high level
attributes friends and mates match.  It would be interesting where they
are on lower order characteristics such as preferences in art, recreation,
traveling, etc.  My guess is that these characteristics would be closer
to chance thereby lending at least some credence to the aphorism that
opposites attract.
        Another issue with regard to physical attractiveness has to do
with construct validity.  I used to think that Woody Allen and Mia Farrow
were a pretty strange pair and I still do; but for entirely different
reasons now. I believe that physical attractiveness is GREATLY subject
to cognitive biases.  This attactiveness can also be radically or moderately
altered.  I think the First Lady looks substantially better now (after her
makeover) than when she wore the bug-eye glasses and her hair unstyled.
What happens to these measures under more severe circumstances (e.g. Cher and
Michael Jackson at the extreme end of this spectrum).
        The whole issue of physical attractiveness seems rather intractable
to me, simply because it seems to be composed of many conflicting underlying
components such as behavior (e.g. diet and exercise), wealth, age, education,
intelligence (does anyone now think Quayle is like Redford as some said four
years ago?)

        With regard to the physical similarity of couples who have been
together for a long time, there are not just the behavioral idiosyncracies
which they pick up from each other (e.g. the way they laugh, smile, walk,
talk, etc.) there are also environmental factors which may be influential.
Long term couples are likely to share diet, sleep patterns, physical location
(e.g. Buffalo vs. Honolulu), experiences (e.g. grief, joy, etc.), and other
more extreme factors such as pollutants, toxins, radiation, and so on; which
could conceivably have profound affects on their shared physical appearance.
        Without doing a review, there still seems to be room for
some conjecture in this topic.

Larry.
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 08:45:22 -0700
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From:         WAGNERL@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Re: Deep Thoughts

When friends come over on Saturday night I like to put
old tapes into the VCR and then say "Hey, let's
watch Saturday Night Live, it isn't a rerun."  And then I wait and
watch their faces when the jokes are about President Reagan and stuff
and my friends get scared thinking that maybe there is an
actor for president again.

Live, from...

Larry.
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Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:44:00 EDT
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From:         KMORGAN@WHEATNMA.BITNET
Subject:      Re: NEUROANATOMY SOFTWARE

Neuroanatomy Foundations is GREAT!!!!!!!!!  It has quizzes,
help balloons, high-quality photos.  Very nice.  I highly
recommend it.
--Kathy Morgan
kmorgan@wheatnma.bitnet (thru Feb)
kathleen_morgan@wheatonma.edu (after Feb. 93)
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:49:32 -0500
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From:         IAN SILVER <ISILVER@MEENA.CC.UREGINA.CA>
Subject:      Re: Ethics

        Ethics sections were included in about 4 of the courses I have
taken so far. Before we even started our practicum, our supervisor took
us through the C.G.C.A. guidelines, line by line - and I'm in counseling
psychology.
                Ian
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From:         TBN@UTXVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: handwashing ethics

Further research is *always* indicated, it seems...now, who wants to
pursue this follow-up study? It would make for an interesting grant
proposal, wouldn't it? And, the public sometimes thinks we research
trivial topics. Well, we'll show them!

oh, almost forgot, we would need a good title for the resulting journal
article..how about, "Pee becomes less than 05 (minutes) in the presence
of others: The impact of social field strength on urination behaviors
revisited".

cheers,

Tor
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:28:36 EST
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Subject: cai & counseling skills

Does anyone know of a psychology or other disciplines newsgroup or listserver
which would be the best place to post a notice regarding attempts to use
computer-assisted instruction/multimedia to teach counseling skills?
Please send responses directly to me. Thanks
Dan Doyle
dxd16@psuvm.psu.edu
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From:         Jeremy Miles <xoct304@DERBY.AC.UK>
Subject:      Reference for generasibility theory

I think this didn't get through the first time, so I'll tryu again.
Apologies if it did and you've just read this.

A reference on generalisibility theory (which I haven't read, so I can't
say if it's what you're after) is:

Shavelson RJ, Webb NM, Rowley GL  (1989) Generabilisility Theory,
        American Psychologist, 44 (6), 922-932

Cheers,

Jez
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From:         jlbugg@UCCS.EDU
Subject:      Re: Left-handers as achievers

Darren et al. on the left-handed thing...  you perform some functions
right handed because you were "taught" that way.  However, I can do
absolutely NOTHING with my left hand (I'm right handed) - regardless
of how I would be taught.  Not that I don't believe you - maybe you
were taught and can therefore use your right hand for certain functions;
however, would you easily switch to your left hand on these things, i.e.,
COULD you bat left handed?  Could you use szissors (I've never learned to
spell that word) with your left hand also?

My thinking is that if you can then great but if you CAN'T and you are
obviously left dominant, then maybe this is yet another phenomena that
involves some sort of hard wiring (like language before puberty kind of
thing).  Thoughts?  Jennifer (CO)  Sorry for the babbling and disorganized
form of my thoughts - I have a cold and my cognitive functions are impaired.
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Date:         Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:53:09 -0600
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From:         Remo Ostini-1 <osti0001@STUDENT.TC.UMN.EDU>
Subject:      Matching Hypothesis

Hi Everyone,

Does this happen to others?  After carefully considering the discussion I
came to the conclusion that I didn't want to read the discussion last week
on the matching hypothesis - now a student of mine has decided to write a
paper on it and is looking for a reference.  Now I don't know whether this
reference was posted or not (and I don't have the time or the where with
all to search the list) so could someone help me out.

We are looking for one of the original papers on the topic by Walster, E &
Walster G.W.  apparently from around 1969 and possibly published in the
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  It was supposed to be the
paper that got things started.  Does anyone know it?

Thanks for your help.

Remo

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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 04:46:48 -0700
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From:         "JOHN P. KLINE" <KLINE@ARIZVMS.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Seeking SPSSx help

Don,
I may be able to answer your question, as I used to program in SPSS quite
a bit... It's been awhile though...
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From:         Kathryn Irene Snyder <IRENES@UNC.BITNET>
Subject: Re: More Bathroom Talk (Out on a limb)

> By the way, I don't think women go to the bathroom together any more
> than we do other things together.  We simply don't see it as an occasion
> to interrupt a good conversation.
>
And for that matter, sometimes it is an opportunity to have a better
one (yes, occasionally we do go to the ladies room to talk about hte
men!
Irene
irenes@unc.bitnet
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Date:         Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:27:33 PST
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From:         Stephanie Fishkin <fishkin@SCF.USC.EDU>
Subject:      RE: SES Measure for Kids
              25, 93 2:13 pm

Thaks  to those of you who gave me some good leads on an SES measure!

SF
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Date:         Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:37:04 -0700
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From:         WAGNERL@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Re: handwashing ethics

With regard to the study Matthew Simpson cites regarding the length of
time required for men to urinate correlated with the proximity of other
men at adjacent urinals; how was the duration measured?  Did the bladder
empty faster?  Did the bladder empty less?  Was the time spent unzipping
and/or shaking shortened?  Was the camera in the lavatory also wired for
sound?  How wide an angle did the camera view?
Without answering these questions, the relevance of the results are
inconclusive IMHO.

Larry
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Date:         Thu, 14 Jan 1993 18:07:19 -0700
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From:         WAGNERL@CGSVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU
Subject:      Another thing about FMRI.

Enter your message below. Press CTRL/Z when complete, or CTRL/C to quit:
A henry is a measure of inductance: "one volt applied to an inductance of
one henry produces a change of one ampere per second in the current."

"The mks unit of magnetic field is called a _weber per square meter_.
There is an older unit which is still in common use, called a _gauss_.
One weber/m^-2 is equal to 10^4 gauss...The field of the earth is a few
tenths of a gauss at the equator."

Ref.  Feynman Lecture on Physics (vol. 1) .  1963.
      Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands

      Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
      Reading, MA.

Larry.
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From:         Sheryl Catz <PSCATZ@LSUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Brainscape

I've had lots  of requests for a more complete address for Brainscape.  Sorry,
I posted eveything I know about it.  Maybe a phone call to IU-PU at Fort Wayne
would be the best way of locating the Brainscape authors. --Sheryl Catz
From: RICHINSP@CWU.BITNET (Philip Richins, Continuing Education, CWU,
              (509) 963-1504)
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Subject: Re: gangs, boys, men, women, mothers, fathers.. etc
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:53:00 GMT
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Sybil,
My remarks regarding tribal behavior and eurocentric psychoanalytic theory
were very much off the cuff.  I have thopght some more about the tribal part
however.  As I recall, Kohlberg's theory of Moral Development identifies his
third (of six) stage as being "tribal", wherein behavior is designed to fit in
and win approval of the immediate group.  This is a diferent (lower) level than
mainstream USA and may point to why gang behavior is seen as inherently amoral/
immoral.

Thanks for listening to my stream of consciousness output.

Philip
RICHINSP@CWU.BITNET

Working at Central Washington University
Studying at SAYBROOK INSTITUTE
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From:         Steve Furner <smfurner@HFNET.BT.CO.UK>
Subject:      Re: A Challenge From the "Steel Tower" to the "Ivory Tower"

Two paper collections spring to mind that you should find to be of help:

L P Goodstein, H B Anderson, S E Olsen (1988) Tasks, errors and mental models,
Taylor & Francis

M Gardener & B Christie (1987) Applying cognitive psychology to user-interface
design, John Whiley & Sons.

These do not deal directly with aviation issues the first deals with operators
in nuclear power plants, the second with office systems.

For an example of Applied Psychology at work in aviation see:

Civil Aviation Authority paper 82017 Guidelines for Auditory Warning Systems
on Civil Aircraft.  This was prepared by Roy Patterson of the MRC Applied
Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, England.

This was published in 1982 I don't doubt that there are more recent
publications for which he will be only too happy to provide reprints or
reference locations.
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From:         Tim Tumlin <UFTRT@NERVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: More on Bathroom behavior studies. (try again)
              25 Jan 1993 17:36:10 -0500 from <G9226406@SSCVAX.CIS.MCMASTER.CA>

>Tim,
>Exactly which sociobiology theory are you referring to.  I know of none
>that say chewing on someone in the can makes you survive longer.
>
>Cheers,
>Tammy
   Sociobiology also measures differential reproductive success and not just
immediate survival value for one individual.
I suppose we could stretch our imaginations to believe that those ancestors
who demanded space during high-vulnerability bodily functions enjoyed greater
reproductive success than those who did not.
   If we men always stayed in locked stalls, we probably wouldn't need to call
on these atavistic responses.  But then we'd never get to see the first few
minutes of the second half of a football game either.
Tim
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