Friday, November 30, 2012

Psychchology Awards, November 2012

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Previously I mentioned my long-unfulfilled plan to give monthly awards to papers that struck me as odd in top journals. CM made a great com...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Mind-Body Dualism is Bad for your Health!

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Hey, you know all that pop-psych BS coming out of positive psychology and similar movements? Things like: "Try forgiveness, your choles...
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Psychological Science isn't all bad

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When I first started this blog, one of my ideas was to digitize my "most absurd article" and "most incoherent title" awa...
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Monday, November 12, 2012

Tautology Part 1: Cognitive psychology and going to hell

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One of the many problems with cognitive psychology, as practiced, is the frequent use of tautological explanations - a 'tautology' o...
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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Templeton's brilliant application process

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Alright, my final post about Templeton. Let's put aside discussion of what they fund , and focus on the application process itself. I do...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Pinker should worry about things that exist! (Election Day Special)

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In anticipation of today's election (with polls to open in 6 hours or so), I thought I would use this opportunity to complain about Step...
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Friday, November 2, 2012

Eco and Embodied Special Session

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Continuing to try to organize interested people: Next year ICPA will be in Lisbon and APA will be in Hawaii. At ICPA I would love to try ...
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