March 2012
I started graduate school at University of Virginia fall 2011. My area of concentration is quantitative psychology. My advisor is Steven Boker.
To avoid developing figurative tunnel vision, I find it useful to start my home page by listing global-scale problems and solutions.
Inept and/or corrupt leaders (e.g. The Most Dangerous Man in America 2009, Inside Job 2010, Gas Land 2010, etc)
Water fluoridation (I have personally lost 15 IQ points due to drinking fluoridated water.)
High likelihood of nuclear disaster due to military devices. Nuclear power plants pose an additional risk. Here is an external exposure dose chart for your reference. Internal exposure is much worse. Health effects of Chernobyl
A social justice political platform:
Sahaja meditation (Charlottesville Richmond Main site)
Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory
Eat vegetables and seafood.
Dweck, C. S. & Leggett, E. L. (1988). A social-cognitive approach to motivation and personality. Psychological Review, Vol 95(2), 256-273.
Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler proposed: "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people." As a first step, I encourage women to dress like people.
I am currently conducting an awesome survey on the extremes of subjective passage of time. I would like to thank the following sites for listing my survey:
Teaching assistant
Office: 1023 Millmont St, Room 209B
Office hours (valid until May 2012):
Phone: 434-906-9678
E-mail: jpritikin@virginia.edu