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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 10:34:00 CST
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- From: TBN@UTXVM.BITNET
- Subject: RE: CowPlop Fans
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- Matthew Simpson writes a long letter which is too long to repost
- here...
-
- However, I take issue with one comment Matthew made about limiting
- the contents of this discussion list to topics which are 'implicitly
- relevant to graduate students in psychology'. Who decides exactly
- what such topics are?
-
- For myself, I think the football discussion is an outstanding example
- of how psychologists can take a real-world phenomenon like football
- and render various interpretations of it--for example, see sf's
- psychodynamic interpretation and my social learning approach to the
- issue, as well as the 'football as rape' motif advanced by another
- (sorry i cannot remember the author's name at present) poster.
-
- We could limit ourselves to discussing sanctioned topics mentioned
- only in journal articles, but that's exactly what's wrong with
- scientific psychology today, I contend--we need to talk more about
- real world social phenomena, not less! Also, there's the separate issue
- of the potential loss of our humanity by limiting our 'conversational
- topics'. Is PSYCGRAD an electronic journal? Should we limit our
- discussions to journal-like topics? I thought that's what PSYCGRD-J
- was for--the more formal discussion of topics of interest to
- psychologists whereas psycgrad is more informal.
-
- This doesn't mean that I approve of flames or posts that are made withou
- careful intellectual thought. Maybe we need to work harder to define
- appropriate and inappropriate post types. Matthew, perhaps exemplars
- would be helpful, even if they are hypothetical.
-
- This is just my .02 worth on what i consider to be a pretty serious
- issue (note: as always, this is most certainly *not* a flame; if it
- is taken as one, I apologize in advance for not stating my thoughts
- clearly enough).
-
- thanks,
-
- tor
-