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Welcome
to the Web site of Marlowe C. Embree, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Wisconsin -- Marathon County
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Email me at marlowe.embree@uwc.edu (just click on the hyperlink and you're there!)
Phone: (715) 261-6252
The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.
-- Orson Welles
Site last updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2009
What's New?
Summer school is in full swing. See the accompanying D2L site for details.
Details for fall classes will gradually be posted over the summer. Stay tuned.
General Course Information and Hyperlinks
Summer 2009
PSY 202 -- Introductory Psychology
Course Syllabus - includes hyperlinked lecture notes.
A new edition of the textbook is being used, so page numbers in the lecture notes may not correspond to the new text. I'll provide new supportive materials throughout the semester.
General Resources for Students and Others
Strategies for student success:
Identifying Your Learning Style:
Identifying Your Instructor's Type (and related expectations)
How To Be An Effective Student
Strategies for career success:
Careers in Psychology Resources
Revitalizing the Leader in You
Becoming a Catalyst for Change
Solving Life Problems using the Six Hats
Getting Better at Weak Cognitive Modes ("Hats")
Dr. Embree's book Self-Managing Your Career
Strategies for a variety of other things:
Guess Who's Coming To Dinner -- with apologies to Sidney Poitier, who's just going to have to take it
Why I Am A Dualist -- for those with a philosophical bent, which can easily ossify if you aren't careful, so try to straighten yourself out, please
A Social Psychologist's Search for Purple America -- a bit dated now, but of interest as a historical curiosity
Kendra's Window -- a stab at psychologically informed fiction
The Social Psychology of Green -- how to change the world starting locally
Psychology in action: (a look at Web resources of possible interest)
Are you addicted to caffeine? Caffeine addiction will probably be included as an official clinical syndrome in the new version of the DSM. Check out the hyperlink to find out why... and what you can do about it. The best part of waking up is decaf in your cup!
How long will you live? Check out this cutting-edge Web site for a scientifically grounded estimate of your marginal life expectancy... and what you can do to live longer if you don't like your score.
Are our brains wired for belief? Check out what the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life has to say about this question. (This is the transcript of an interdisciplinary forum and, as such, represents a wide range of differing views on the subject - some of which I find congenial, others not. So don't take this site as representative of my own views, which are a secret. I could tell you what they are, but then I'd have to kill you.)
About the instructor
My educational background includes a B.A. in psychology from the University of Denver and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My work history includes roles as a college teacher, project researcher, outplacement counselor, and small business owner including twelve years' recent experience as a career management consultant.
I think of myself as a cognitive-dispositionalist and nonreductionist with a strong idiographic and noological orientation (if this already means something to you, you ought to do well in the class). My diverse and growing research interests include the relationship between personality diversity and discipline-specific academic performance; personality and cognitive style correlates of student worldview development; relationships between religion, politics, and personality; generational influences on longitudinal personality development; and more.
In my spare time, I am an ailurophile, alpha geek wannabee, INFP, part-time iconoclast, prototypical member of Strauss and Howe's Idealist generation, and avid viewer of Law and Order reruns. I am a past recipient of the Dave Greenberger Memorial Desk Award. My grade school nickname was "Wooden Head". I am the only person in the Wausau area to celebrate Waitangi Day each year. I have memorized the William Butler Yeats poem "The Choice" in its entirety (all eight lines). I collect wheat ear pennies, play chess badly, am a former couch potato, have studied five foreign languages (with minimal fluency at best in any), am a crypto-Dooyeweerdian, and agree with G. K. Chesterton that anything worth doing is worth doing badly.
Masthead quote:
Those who are familiar with my Web site know that the quote at the top of this page changes regularly. You may miss one of your favorite quotes and wonder where old quotes go to die. Click here for an archive.
