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Commentaries and Reports PARAPSYCHOLOGY 2007-01-03 Guess for Success. Parapsychology is a term coined by J. B. Rhine that covers phenomena such as telepathy the direct transmission of information from mind to mind. The landmark work is Rhine, J. B. (1964) Extra-sensory perception. (Boston: Bruce Humphries), and a flow of other publications by Rhine’s associates and others. In this extended article, Lockhead shows how very small deviations from randomness in the to-be-guessed sequence can give rise to better- or worse-than-chance guessing performance. Lockhead/Rhine: Formats:Lockhead 2007-01-03 SOCIAL SCIENCE 2006-10-27 Ill-defined. What is happening to political science when leading thinkers can pretend to advance knowledge by little more than re-defining words? In their article Anti-Americanisms, an abstract of a forthcoming book, Katzenstein and Keohane begin thus... Bertrand/Keohane: Formats:Bertrand 2006-10-27 EMOTION {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|date}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|title}}. {{#lst:{{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|target}}|ref}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|snip}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|ref}}: {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|formats}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Alvarado.1|replies}} BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|date}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|title}}. {{#lst:{{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|target}}|ref}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|snip}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|ref}}: {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|formats}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Rachlin.1|replies}} METACOGNITION {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|date}} {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|title}}. {{#lst:{{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|target}}|ref}} {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|snip}} {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|ref}}: {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|formats}} {{#lst:Response:2007-Foote.1|replies}} CRIME AND PUNISHMENT {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|date}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|title}}. {{#lst:{{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|target}}|ref}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|snip}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|ref}}: {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|formats}} {{#lst:Response:2006-Churchland.1|replies}} LANGUAGE PROCESSING 2006-09-07 Report: Visual Language Processing and Additive Effects of Multiple Factors on Timed Performance: A Challenge for the Interactive Activation Framework? Two factors often have additive effects on timed performance in language tasks. Despite 25 years of work, fans of the dominant theoretical framework for language processing have yet to publicly address even a single instance of such additivity... Besner: Formats:Besner 2006-09-08 NEUROECONOMICS 2006-07-16 Will you take ‘neuro’ with that? Neuroeconomics is an interesting idea that has an epistemological worm at its core... but there is no guarantee at all that the optimizing process corresponds to “explicit optimization” in which courses of action are well-defined... Staddon/Bernheim: Formats:Staddon 2006-06-28