13 MAR 2015 by ideonexus
Changing Spelling Removes Word Associations
Take the word ghost, for example. Always having
seen it speld in this way, we hav come to associate the
feelings arousd by the idea ghost with its accustomd
form of visual representation. To meet the word in
our reading instantly and instinctivly excites those
feelings in our minds. To meet the same word speld
gost, shorn of its familiar h, shocks us, and causes a
temporary mental inhibition of the idea. The word
seems to hav lost, with the missing letter, something
of the wierdness ...10 JUN 2013 by ideonexus
Questioning the Milgram Experiment
It appeared that sixty-five percent of people would torture someone to death, if pressured to do so. The results made their way into both psychology and cocktail party conversation. But were they correct? At least one woman doesn't think so. Gina Perry, for her book, Behind the Shock Machine, traced as many participants in the Milgram experiment as she could, and re-examined the notes of the experiment. Milgram claimed that seventy-five percent of the participants believed in the reality of t...Folksonomies: psychology ethics
Folksonomies: psychology ethics
These questions raise an even greater objection to the validity of the experiment. If the results cannot be reproduced, because the experiment was unethical, then we shouldn't cite it a evidence of anything every. Science demands reproducible results, and without replication we do not have evidence.