a scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact.
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Do people's IQs change?
In a 1968 study of the Pygmalion Effect:
Rosenthal and Jacobson gave an intelligence test to all of the students at an elementary school at the beginning of the school year. Then, they randomly selected 20 percent of the students - without any…
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In Milgram's studies (1963) were the volunteers alright after?
I heard some claims that most participants of Milgram's studies were happy they had done the experiment and were fine years latter, other times I've been told that the participants experienced psychological distress and needed counseling.
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Did a prisoner die from a needle prick when he was told that it was a snake bite?
I read somewhere that there was a prisoner facing a death sentence sometime before the 1950s, on whom a psychological experiment was conducted.
Experiment:
He was blindfolded and told that he would be killed by a bite by a venomous snake. But in…
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Is oenology real?
I am French so oenology is obviously a big thing here.
I then read from time to time that it is, generally speaking, a scam - "scam" being defined in various ways:
that the influence of the context (place, bottle, atmosphere) is preponderant and…
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Can blood transfusions lead to neurologic rejuvenation?
“We know [neurologic] rejuvenation exists. Now we have to figure out the bare
minimum of therapeutics or genetic tinkering necessary for it to be
safely translated into a human.”
In the article Blood Work: Scientists Uncover Surprising New…
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