Thursday, May 21, 2009

Goodbye to Yesterday...

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Your grades are now posted . Enjoy your summer!
Friday, May 8, 2009

Final Exam

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Just a reminder that the final exam is Wednesday, May 13th in our normal classroom (Madison 311) at our normal class time (noon). You will ...
Tuesday, May 5, 2009

After A Word From These Sponsors...

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Here are some links on advertising and reasoning. The first is about the underlying intellectual dishonesty in even the most honest of ad ca...
Friday, May 1, 2009

Own Our Ignorance

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Here's an excerpt from a podcast I listen to called Jordan, Jesse GO! Two guys in their twenties are jovially discussing a favorite to...
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Stubborn = Intellectually Dishonest

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Here's a little rant on a favorite topic of mine: intellectual honesty. A simple goal of this class is to get us all to recognize what c...
Monday, April 27, 2009

Homework #3

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Homework #3 is due at the beginning of class on Friday, May 1st. Your assignment is to choose an ad (on TV or from a magazine or wherever) a...
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Sunday, April 26, 2009

No, You're Not

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One of my favorite topics is I'M-SPECIAL-ism. Psychological research has repeatedly shown that most Americans overestimate their own abi...
Friday, April 24, 2009

I'll Rationalize... Later

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Links-a-plenty on superstition and rationalization: Even the least superstitious of us believe in magic a little bit . I'm looking at yo...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

Wished Pots Never Boil

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Here are a few links on the psychological impediments we're discussing recently: Malcolm Gladwell argues that stereotyping is unethical...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Impeding Us Since Birth

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So, I love research on psychological impediments . Here are some links: Here's an article about a cool study on the relationship betw...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Group Presentations

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Here are the group assignments for our presentations. If you're not in a group yet, let me know as soon as possible so we can get you in...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Pimply Stress

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This mini-article on acne and anxiety raises a combo platter of questions relevant to what we're going over in class. 1) Reverse cause ...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Team Wal-Mart

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Here are some links on the ethics of Wal-Mart : Is Wal-Mart good for the working class? Here's a great debate between an economist who...

Team Blaze

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Here are some links on marijuana : Here's a recent article celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the groundbreaking study on the medic...

Team Veggies!

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Here are some links and a video on animal ethics : Vegetarians Still Love the Smell of Bacon David Foster Wallace: Consider the Lobster How ...