Belkin F5D7050 nightmare
Just set my new Windows XP SP2 PC up with a network card and then tried to install a Belkin F5D7050 wireless USB adapter. It wouldn’t install, complaining first of a “code 10” error, then a “code 28” error. After much reinstalling, Googling, registry hacking and other such nonsense, the fix described at http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=823771 sorted […]
System dynamics for psychology
The article here (PDF – right click and download it) contains an overview of nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) in psychological research. This is exactly what I have been looking for and contains lots of references that I need to follow up :tongue:
New tools for psychology research
Old psychology uses blunt, inappropriate methods. Researchers look for simple cause and effect relationships and view matters in terms of yes/no and humans either do or don’t act in certain ways. Physics is not that simple, and self aware human study of ourselves certainly is not. New tools are required to deal with psychological research. […]
Music study
I am going to study perception of emotion in music for my independent third year study. I need examples of happy, sad, fearful and angry music. It has just occurred to me that I can possibly obtain such tracks by searching via user submitted tags at www.last.fm, and let the people decide what is happy […]
Psychology must be post-modern
Psychology studies people. Physics and other sciences study relatively fixed phenomena that are not self aware. Psychology often aims to remove people from their context when studying them, for example by measuring some aspect of them in the laboratory. Averaging data also removes any interesting anomalies. Most psychology attributes behaviours to internal dispositions rather than […]
Why are journal articles so boring?
It may be an elitist, political device to shield science from the mainstream population and keep scientists in their jobs. Or it may be that shared specialist terminology and dense language is necessary to disseminate scientific findings and this results in tightly targeted, hard to read (for the layman) articles. I propose that journals can […]