Friday, May 15, 2009

Humans and animals: "Free will", or not?

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An intriguing statement appeared in the journal Science a few days ago. Writing about the way humans experience the decision to move and act...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Eye contact? Part 2

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"Eye contact", or prolonged mutual gaze, is something adults do when they want to communicate some emotional information. They may...
Sunday, May 10, 2009

Eye contact with babies-- how important is it?

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People have believed for centuries that the human gaze had remarkable powers. In the distant past, most people thought that rays came out of...
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Thursday, April 30, 2009

Robot nannies and applied ethics

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In the journal "Science", 24 April 2009, pp. 463-464, two letters from computer specialists take different sides on the desirabili...
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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Jean Mercer's publication list

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PUBLICATIONS: N.B. Jean Mercer's name was legally changed from Gene Lester in 1977. Lester, G., & Morant, R. (1967). Sound localizat...
Saturday, April 18, 2009

An unpublished paper

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The posts following this one are sections of an unpublished paper discussing the importance of critical thinking abilities for mastery of ch...

Critical thinking and mastery of child development concepts, References

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This is the reference section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking and the teaching of child development. ...

Critical thinking and mastery of child development concepts, Part 6

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This is the sixth section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking and the teaching of child development. Criti...

Critical thinking and mastery of child development concepts, Part 5

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This is the fifth section of an unpublished paper discussing critical thinking issues and the teaxhing of child development. ...

Critical thinking and the mastery of child development concepts, Part 4

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This is the fourth section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking and teaching child development. Why Don’t Students ...
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Critical thinking and child development, Part 3

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Here is the third section of an unpublished paper on critical thinking issues and teaching child development. W...

Critical thinking and the mastery of child development concepts, Part 2

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Here is part 2 of an unpublished paper discussing the use of critical thinking concepts in teaching child development courses. ...

Critical thinking and child development concepts: Introduction

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This post and several subsequent posts comprise an unpublished paper dealing with teaching issues and on the use of critical thinking concep...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Reasoning from animals to humans

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A fascinating recent article on an ability usually thought to be human, but apparently shared by some birds: von Bayern, A.M.P., & Emery...
Monday, April 6, 2009

The animal-human analogy

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Several days ago, I commented on an article by Price in which information about mouse behavior was [over]generalized to suggest that human b...
Sunday, April 5, 2009

Those Book Reviews

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On both Amazon and Barnes & noble, several of my books-- including Myths and Misunderstandings-- have been the targets of attacks by rev...
Saturday, March 28, 2009

After, or before AND after? A cautionary tale

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An article by Bendict Carey in the New York Times' "Science Times" section, Feb. 24, 2009, was entitled "After abuse, cha...
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