tags: writer's block, psychology, abnormal psychology, cognitive psychology, writing, publishing, career, publish or perish, researchblogging.org,peer-reviewed research, peer-reviewed paper, journal club
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Didden, R., Sigafoos, J., O'Reilly, M., Lancioni, G., & Sturmey, P. (2007). A Multisite Cross-Cultural Replication of Upper's (1974) Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of Writer's Block. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 40 (4), 773-773 DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2007.773
Upper, D. (1974). The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of "writer's block". Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 7 (3), 497-497 DOI: 10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a
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My column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM today discusses recent research on acupuncture:
Every so often I wonder what the status is regarding the infiltration of pseudoscience into medicine.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Really. I couldn't.
Hmmm, yes. That expresses it quite well. Very succinct, too.
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Lol, I got all excited when I saw your headline and wanted to post about it on my blog. And then I thought the page didn't load correctly. Tweeted it :-)
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And the same to Grant too.
This post made the Editor's selection at Research Blogging:
http://researchblogging.org/news/?p=1181
Sorry Cath, I just had to go one better than publishing a lonely period. Pun intended :)
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