harnad@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (S. R. Harnad) (04/10/90)
Directorate of the American Psychological Association 202/955-7653 *** 1 Sleep Disorders Centers: Query 2 Cultural systems: Request for discussion 3 2 queries: Use of animals, P.O.W.s 4 Psychological measures for "tolerance for boring jobs": Query 5 PKE and encryption/decryption (Email security) 6 Animal Behavior Email Group? Query 7 Dreaming: Query ------------------------------------------------------------ 1 Sleep Disorders Centers From: Steve.E.Southmayd%QueensU.CA I would very much like to contact anyone working in an established Sleep Disorders Center. What I would propose is to develop a small group willing to consult informally on interesting/puzzling cases, and perhaps to toss around some ideas for research. Although Sleep Disorders is not the primary focus of our treatment team, we have been reasonably extensively involved with these problems for about the last 10 years. Other areas of interest have been sleep in depressive illness and therapeutic sleep deprivation. It seems that we may now be moving towards more extensive involvement with sleep disorders and a feasibility project is underway to assess the prospect of a formal clinic. There must be a better way to keep in touch than the annual trek to APSS. Particularly this year. With thanks, S. E. Southmayd, Ph.D. Treatment Evaluation Unit Kingston Psychiatric Hospital P.O. Bag 603 Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 4X3 Tel: (613) 546-1101 Bitnet: SOUTHMAY@QUCDN.QUEENSU.CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2 CULTURAL SYSTEM discussion From: Pierre-Alain Cotnoir <R21254%UQAM> As you requested it, I'm please to suggest a topic for discussion. Besides the topic of comparative psychology or ethology, I would appreciate discussions of cultural systems. hHis has been one of the most rewarding fields to develop in the last decade. Works of Cavalli-Sforza, Feldmann, Boyd, Richerson, Bonner, Lumsden, Wilson, Hinde, and many others have made this one of the most exciting new areas of study. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Editor's note: The following request for information is not appropriate for PSYCOLOQUY and henceforth this sort of posting will not appear. Requests like this should be sent to the unmoderated newsgroup: sci.psychology, NOT sci.psychology.digest or PSYCOLOQUY.] 3. 2 queries: Use of Animals, P.O.W.s From: CHARLIE <PAB9376%wooster.bitnet Hi! My name is Sankar and I am a new subscriber to the PSYCOLOQUY I am doing a term paper on the Use of animals in Psychological research and also human beings with special emphasis on how the prisoners of war of the second world war were used for psychological research. Could anyone give me any suggestion on what book or sources I should look up for writing a paper on the above subject. SANKAR P.B. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 Psychological measures for "tolerance for boring jobs" From: "C. HARRY HUI, PSYCHOLOGY DEPT, UNIV. OF HONG KONG" HRNYHCC%HKUCC.BITNET I am now collecting instruments (paper-and-pencil tests, and others) that measure a person's tolerance of boredom in routine jobs. Do you know of any good ones (and bad ones too)? Or have you used/constructed any? I would love to hear from you. Please send e-mail to: hrnyhcc@hkucc.bitnet ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 PKE and encryption/decryption From: Bill.Hunter, Director, Education Technology Unit <HUNTER%UNCAEDU> While it IS quite impossible to work backward through some encryption algorithms, it is possible to generate dictionaries of the encyptions for a large collection of possible key words (since there is necessarily a unique encyption for any given word) and thus to essentially decode an encrypted form of any word in the dictionary of encryptions. Clifford Stoll gives an example of how this works in his spy/hacker account of his experience with tracing a hacker, The Cuckoo's Egg. It is a mighty nice read. Bill Hunter The University of Calgary hunter@uncaedu.bitnet ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 Animal Behavior Email Group? Query From: Peter$HENZI.UNDHPD%f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org (Peter$HENZI UNDHPD) Please will you inform me as to whether there is an e-mail group dealing more specifically with Animal Behavior, especially primates. We enjoy receiving the Psychology information - t h a n k s. Dale Schultz Senior Information Centre Consultant Computer Services Division University of Natal King George V Avenue Durban 4001 South Africa E_Mail: SCHULTZ on node UNDHPD (Don't include the DALE$) International: SCHULTZ.UNDHPD@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org uucp: uunet!m2xenix!puddle!5!494!4!Peter$HENZI.UNDHPD Internet: Peter$HENZI.UNDHPD@f4.n494.z5.fidonet.org --------------------------------------------------------------- 7 Subject: Re: dreaming From: chen%arti9%vub.vub.ac.be%blekul60.bitnet (Chung-Chih Chen) I am very interested in dreaming. But I am an AI scientist, not a psychologist. I have several questions concerning Robinson's why we dream: (1) Do blind people dream? If they do, does it mean that dreaming has nothing to do with light-adaptation? (2) What is the lowest level animals which can dream? (If an animal has sleep cycles, then we can assume it dreams. Any such experiments?) (3) When we dream, is our motor control disabled? Chung-Chih Chen (email: chen@arti.vub.ac.be) -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Stevan Harnad Department of Psychology Princeton University harnad@clarity.princeton.edu srh@flash.bellcore.com harnad@elbereth.rutgers.edu harnad@pucc.bitnet (609)-921-7771