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Feliz Cumpleaños Mike!!!! Thanks for providing thoughts to sharpen our minds!!! JOSE DAVID HERAZO RIVERA Foreign Languages Department, Universidad de Córdoba (Montería - Colombia) Carrera 6 No. 76-103. Tel: 7860500 - 7909800 www.unicordoba.edu.co > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:08:17 +0300 > Subject: Re: [xmca] groundbreaking research using categorization tasks > From: kplakits@gmail.com > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > Happy birthday Mice. > Katerina > Στις 13 Απρ 2012 6:22 ΜΜ, ο χρήστης "Luisa Aires" <laires11@gmail.com> > έγραψε: > > > Happy birthday Mike :-) > > Luísa > > > > On 13 April 2012 15:24, Martin Kramer <mkramer65@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi there, > > > I've been following the discussions here frequently. Glad to have found > > > them. Much of them still too difficult for me to follow (though I'm > > slowly > > > catching up). This one needed no further explanation... > > > > > > 1. Happy birthday to Mike Cole! > > > 2. I'm bound to do some experimenting this weekend ;-) > > > > > > thanks for sharing! > > > Martin, > > > Austria > > > > > > > > > > > > 2012/4/13 mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> > > > > > > > Just think what an equal amount of vodka could accomplish! > > > > :-) > > > > Mike > > > > > > > > On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > > As AERA begins, and as we wish Mike Cole a happy birthday today, I > > > think > > > > it's appropriate to acknowledge that the sort of categorizing tasks > > that > > > > Luria used in Uzbekistan, and that Mike and Sylvia Scribner adapted in > > > > Liberia, are still being used to study the recesses of the human mind. > > > For > > > > your consideration: > > > > > > > > > > Study: Beer fuels male creativity > > > > > 10:57 am April 12, 2012, by George Mathis > > > > > It's long been known that beer makes women prettier, but a new study > > > > concludes beer also makes men more creative. > > > > > The New York Daily News reports< > > > > > > > > > http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-study-article-1.1059752?localLinksEnabled=false > > > > > > > > the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a bar. The > > > > article does not say who paid for the study, but I'm thinking it was a > > > > group of men or a beer company. > > > > > "We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory > > > > tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks," > > > > psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking, says in > > the > > > > article, which I have forwarded to my wife. > > > > > Wiley parrots what any man who has had to come up with an excuse for > > > > running late while sitting on a bar stool will tell you: "Sometimes the > > > > really creative stuff comes out when you're [drinking]." > > > > > For the experiment, conducted by University of Illinois researchers, > > a > > > > group of 40 men was given three words and asked to provide a fourth > > word > > > > that fits a pattern. For example, "marine mammal," "Heidi Klum," > > > "divorce" > > > > could be followed by "Seal." > > > > > Half the men remained dimwittingly sober, while the other half was > > > given > > > > two pints (hopefully of a microbrew) and likely began flirting with > > > > waitresses and/or researchers. > > > > > The men who drank solved 40% more of the problems than their sober > > > > counterparts. Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12 seconds > > > > while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds, the Daily News reports. > > > > > Women did not participate in the study, perhaps because men can't > > think > > > > straight around such delightful creatures, according to an earlier > > study< > > > > > > > > > http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/study-finds-men-suffer-mental-decline-thinking-women-article-1.1038382 > > > > >. > > > > > The Daily News article also cites the literary genius of famed > > drinkers > > > > Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski, but not George Mathis. > > > > > Alas, it was almost the perfect scientific study. > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > > _____ > > > > > xmca mailing list > > > > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > > > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > _____ > > > > xmca mailing list > > > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Martin Kramer > > > Affenberg 16 > > > 4204 Haibach > > > +43 650 211 8502 > > > __________________________________________ > > > _____ > > > xmca mailing list > > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Luísa Aires > > Universidade Aberta, Porto > > R.Amial, nº 752 > > 4200-055 Porto > > laires@univ-ab.pt > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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