Notes of a Psychology Watcher ---Steven J. Ceresnie, Ph.D. Psychologist

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Jerry Leiber R.I.P.

8/23/11. Jerry was a talented song writer of pop hits including "Hound Dog," and "Stand by Me."

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/23/arts/music/jerry-leiber-rock-n-roll-lyricist-dies-at-78.html?_r=1&hp

Monday, August 22, 2011

The Decline of Asian Marriage

8/22/11. Reshaping the Asian family.

http://www.economist.com/node/21526350

Friday, August 19, 2011

Prevalence of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

8/19/11. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study showing the increasing prevalence of parent-reported ADHD among children in the United States --- 2003 and 2007.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5944a3.htm?s_cid=mm5944a3_w

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Accelerating Artificial Intelligence.

8/18/11. The new world keeps coming faster --- soon your smart phone will be smarter than you.

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/lawreview/colloquy/2010/12/LRColl2010n12McGinnis.pdf

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Don't Give Me that Paleolithic Liberalism - It's Not Good Enough For Me

Professor of ancient history - Victor Davis Hanson, describes how some intelligentsia and politicians are riddled with contradictions about helping the downtrodden.

http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/liberal-psychoses/

Are European Social Democracies Successful?

8/16/11. Only if you ignore the facts.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576510200756243420.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Telling It Like It Is on Race and Economics

8/16/11. Thomas Sowell can't help himself --- reality is not optional.

http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell081611.php3

Monday, August 15, 2011

The Barbarians Inside Britain's Gates

8/14/11. More Dr. Dalrymple.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576504033881168802.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#printMode

Saturday, August 13, 2011

What Happened to Obama?

8/13/11. Obama has been criticized this week from the political left and right about what he doing wrong.

"Nothing happened to Obama," says Norman Podhoretz, former long-time editor of Commentary Magazine.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903918104576502093021646166.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Thursday, August 11, 2011

British Degeneracy on Parade

8/11/11. Former British prison psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple reports.

http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon0810td.html

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Nassir Ghaemi, M.D.: "A First Rate Madness. Why Mental Illness Enhances Crisis Leadership."

8/9/11. I just read this first rate book. Dr. Ghaemi has written books on concepts of psychiatry, mood disorders, statistics, and the biopsychosocial model ---- all worth reading. There is much to learn here that will provoke heat and light.

Dr. Ghaemi writes:

"The intuition against my thesis has its roots in stigma, I believe. This prejudice underlies the notion that a leader we dislike must be mentally ill, or that mental health inherently is better than mental illness for leadership. These ideas are based on a stigmatizing attitude towards mental illness, the view that it is inherently and completely harmful. Mental illness certainly can be harmful in many ways, but not inherently and completely."
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mood-swings/201108/first-rate-madness

See prior post with excerpt from this book.

Debunking the Paranormal

8/9/11. A psychology professor examines the paranormal.

http://thebrowser.com/interviews/richard-wiseman-on-debunking-paranormal?page=full

Bret Stephens: "Is Obama Really That Smart?"

8/9/11. Not everybody thinks so.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904140604576495932704234052.html

Monday, August 8, 2011

10 Award-Winning Scientific Simulation Videos

8/8/11.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/08/science-simulation-videos/

Monday Quotations

8/8/11.

[Businessman talking into the telephone:] "No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?"

--- Robert Mankoff (1944 - )

"Men with pierced ears are better prepared for marriage --- they've experienced pain and bought jewelry."

--- Rita Rudner (1956 - )

"While taking my noon walk today, I had more morbid thoughts. What is it about death that bothers me so much? Probably the hours. Melnick says the soul is immortal and lives on after the body drops away, but if my soul exists without my body I am convinced all my clothes will be too loose-fitting. Oh, well..."

--- Woody Allen (1935 - )