KSUA - Psychology Club

11/13/2016

08/26/2016

Thoughts on this Bryan?

We have empirically assessed the distribution of published effect sizes and estimated power by extracting more than 100,000 statistical records from about 10,000 cognitive neuroscience and psychology papers published during the past 5 years. The reported median effect size was d=0.93 (inter-quartile...

04/26/2016

12/01/2015

An interesting (and important) read.

I want you to consider the possibility that your parents did not shape you as a person. Despite how it feels, your mother and father (or whoever raised you) likely imprinted almost nothing on your …

11/25/2015

Interesting

Students don’t need to be rewarded for studying at every turn, but why not honor the march toward mastery now and then?

08/30/2015

Sad news: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/31/science/oliver-sacks-dies-at-82-neurologist-and-author-explored-the-brains-quirks.html?smid=fb-nytscience&smtyp=cur

Dr. Sacks explored some of the brain’s strangest pathways in best-selling case histories like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” achieving a level of renown rare among scientists.

08/24/2015

While I take some exception with the broad brush stroke that "Until recently, evolutionary psychologists considered behavioristic accounts of human behavior incompatible with evolutionary theory," overall this is a good primer. It's not just the EP's, Behaviorists (including Cognitive Behaviorists) do it too. Beyond that, this is something a friend and mentor ( W. Jake Jacobs) taught me over a decade ago while a lowly EP grad student. With that said, this is a very important point; one that EP's and Behaviorists alike should pay attention to.

08/05/2015

Something to keep in mind. I'm sure both Dr. Jones and I have used some of these terms when we really shouldn't.

Frontiers in Psychology has just published an article on 'Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid'. These sorts of "here's how to talk about" articles are popular but themselves can ofte...

07/10/2015

For those of you who can attend, please do so. The overarching event in general is a big deal. For some strange reason my talk seems to have become one as well. I have been interviewed by NPR, have an interview next week with some other Cleveland media outlet (not sure who yet), and have had a write-up in several local papers. Most of the information will be stuff you've heard before, but the more butts in the seats, the better. (All I wanted to do was give a simple talk to pad my vitae. Dr. Jones, knows what I mean...)

http://www.kent.edu/ashtabula/news/dr-sefcek-speaking-smithsonian-exhibit

This Saturday, July 11, the Andover Public Library will be hosting the traveling Smithsonian exhibit, Human Origins: What Does It Mean to Be Human? As part of this event, Dr. John Sefcek, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Kent State Ashtabula, will be presenting Beauty is in the Adaptions of the…

06/09/2015

Honor that unforgettable faculty member and share your favorite classroom memories of how he or she inspired you -- submit a nomination for the Distinguished Teaching Award (DTA) today. Sponsored by the Kent State Alumni Association, the DTA is the university’s most prestigious honor in teaching. Th…