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New Study: Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive – Yahoo! News

New Study: Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive – Yahoo! News. I commented on this article over at YahooNews. Here’s what I had to say: This is not groundbreaking research. Piaget essentially looked at how kids interact with inanimate objects. His work is what it is, and needed to be done to take us to the next […]

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UPDATE – Norbert Wiener Also Bridged Mechanical and Biological Worlds

In my August 10th, 2010, post, I wrote the following (with my addition in brackets): In this section of vol. I [of Bowlby’s trilogy on attachment theory at about page 41], Bowlby deftly moves back and forth between mechanical systems and mechanical forms of linking and integrating (often referred to as cybernetics) and biological forms of […]

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UPDATE – TiVo as Cybernetics — QUICK LOOK – The Anxiety of Katrina

I have opened up two new categories that will hold short blog posts: updates and “quick look.” Updates is a category that I hope is self-explanatory—blog posts updating you on information that has appeared in an earlier post. I’ll try to make updates as “stand alone” as possible, but you may wish to read the […]

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Combining Together the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) and Electroencephalography (EEG)

Our Foundation just received an interesting Letter of Intent (LOI) from Kazuko Y. Behrens, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Human Development and Family Studies Department at Texas Tech University. Dr. Behrens was kind enough to allow us to print his LOI as a blog post. Dr. Behrens studied under Mary Main and Eric Hesse—co-developers of […]

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ADHD: Has this diagnostic fad run its course? – CSMonitor.com

ADHD: Has this diagnostic fad run its course? – CSMonitor.com. This article is by Stephen R. Herr, an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Studies, Leadership and Counseling at Murray State University, and can be found over at the Christian Science Monitor. Let me begin by applauding Dr. Herr’s efforts to “broaden our view” […]

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