User:ACEOREVIVED
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Hi I am back, and now typing under "ACEOREVIVED" to distinguish me from my former name which was simply ACEO. I may not be as diligent about editing Wikipedia in my new incarnations, owing to work pressures (I work as a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the United Kingdom). However, I felt I had to return to tidy up a few things I spotted in Wikipedia. Specifically, as the creator of the site on Charles Laughlin I thought I had better let him know (see the talk-page on this site) and I thought I had better let some one know that it is official now that Ian Stevenson died on February 8, 2007 (perhaps he has now been reincarnated). Since been away, I have hit forty, so my life is to begin now! In fact, most of my contributions from now on will probably relate to one article, which I can see is desperately in need of expert psychology attention - that on locus of control.
My likely edits as from the beginning of the autumn 2007 are probably going to be to the article on aging and those related to transpersonal disciplines.ACEOREVIVED 19:55, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
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My edits since my return:
I created two categories relating to Sigmund Freud, one listing influences on Freud, one listing critics of Freud - now deleted, I see;
I have made some comments on the page about ageing in its "Discussion" section, once I noticed the unsourced claims in this article;
I have made rather a lot of edits to the article on locus of control.
Well, I know that I was not going to create new articles in my new incarnation, but I have decided to create one on cross-cultural psychology, as Wikipedia needed one. I think that as soon as I have done all I wish to do on the articles on locus of control, the Oedipus complex and ageing, most of my edits will relate to this article.
ACEOREVIVED 19:38, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
ACEO, who formerly operated under the now inactive username ACEO, is interested in psychology. Since returning to Wikipedia, his main edits will be almost entirely of fields in psychology and allied fields. May he repeat that sounding horse he had under his old username - that Wikipedia should, even by standards of online encyclopaedias, continue to be up-to-date. He has made some comments on this issue on the discussion page of the article on Wikipedia. ACEO 20:45, 11 July 2006 (UTC) He was formerly signed by a different username "ACarl" - that did not have its own userpage. He is still learning a lot about the wonderful world of Wikipedia and of wiki on the Internet in general.
Some requests about use of Wikipedia:
Before editing an article, ask:
Am I helping to make the article more up-to-date? Am I able to reference my sources, using books and journals, not just other internet sites? Does my edit help to give the article a better context? Am I able to establish wiki-links to other articles in Wikipedia? Do I have credentials in that particular field? Are my edits likely to help other Wikipedia users?
My edits from now (February 2007) will probably relate to primarily to the article on locus of control and the areas of transpersonal psychology and transpersonal anthropology, with possibility some edits relating to psychoanalysis and its derivatives.
As of September 2007, after a long period of inactivity, I am finally online again - it meant purchase of a new laptop - so look forward to more edits from me.
About my biasses:
Please be aware that the word bias, which derives from bowls, just means a systematic tendency, it does not imply prejudice, so I merely mean this by this term:
Exopedian or Metapedian? I would definitely say I am quite strongly exopedian. However, I am not against leaving messages on userpages, so my commitment to expoedianism, while strong, is less than 100%.
Deletionist or inclusionist? I come down on the side of inclusionists - I do not like to suggest deletion of categories or articles, after others may have worked hard on them. This is not a licence to say that in Wikipedia, anything goes, however - I would object to use of foul language in Wikipedia, for example. I am also against a category of user language Level 0, which has always seemed rather pointlesss to me.
Religious biasses. As you can see, I have categorised myself as a Christian, but am also a relatively liberal one, who has no problems in being both a Christian and a believer in evolution, at least of sorts - I tend to have sympathy with the Gaia hypothesis.
[edit] Biasses in current affairs and information
My news is likely to come from the BBC, especially, Radio Four or the BBC Two programme, Newsnight. I tend to read local rather than national newspapers, and would say that the internet search engine which I use most often is Google. I frequently listen to the Radio Four programme "Today".
Academic background. My academic field is psychology, so I shall edit mostly articles relating to this field.
[edit] So, what are my biasses in psychology?
Believe it or not, I am interested in both transpersonal psychology and social cognition, and have sympathy with both of these approaches in psychology. I consider the following great among our living psychologists:
Martin Seligman Robert Sternberg Robert Zajonc
I have also long had interests in the work of Daniel Batson, and created his article in Wikipedia.The following were, in my view, two of the most over-rated psychologists of the twentieth century:
So, you can see, I am not sympathetic with behaviourism. I do admire both Carl Jung and Alfred Adler; as for Sigmund Freud, I find that there was both sense and nonsense in his many writings. I have contributed to the article on psychoticism, and would agree that this is rather too motley a trait. Finally, a big vote of thanks to all three of the "greats" of humanistic psychology, that is, Abraham Maslow, Carl R. Rogers and Rollo May, all of whom, in my view, made important and significant contributions to psychology.
[edit] Biasses with views on psychotherapy
Although I do not possess qualifications as a counselling psychologist, I have taught this subject at my local university. I have some sympathy with most, but not all, of the forms of cognitive therapy, but I somewhat skeptical about the Rational Emotive Therapy of Albert Ellis. I have rather more time for Cognitive Analytic Therapy. Please note that these opinions are based on reading, not on personal experience.
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