Eager to read the next newsletter. Exciting stuff. It is remarkable how practices change over time and how very challenging doing something like this would be in today-s world. I cant even imagine the IRB paperwork involved.
On the other hand we do seem to be engaging on some wacky stuff lately.
Harvard must have been a rather interesting place at that time, since shortly before Leary started his LSD research program another psychologist named Henry Murray conducted experiments on students in which he put emotional stress on the participants by verbal humuliation. One of these participants: the then 16 year old undergraduate in mathmatics Ted Kaszinsky, who later became known as the Unabomber. I am mentioning this since you mentioned him lately. Thank you very much for this essay.
I did not know that! Very interesting indeed. This was the Wild West period of Psychology when no lawmen or ethics committees were around. At Yale, Stanley Milgram was conducting his famous studies into Obedience to Authority…
Eager to read the next newsletter. Exciting stuff. It is remarkable how practices change over time and how very challenging doing something like this would be in today-s world. I cant even imagine the IRB paperwork involved.
On the other hand we do seem to be engaging on some wacky stuff lately.
Harvard must have been a rather interesting place at that time, since shortly before Leary started his LSD research program another psychologist named Henry Murray conducted experiments on students in which he put emotional stress on the participants by verbal humuliation. One of these participants: the then 16 year old undergraduate in mathmatics Ted Kaszinsky, who later became known as the Unabomber. I am mentioning this since you mentioned him lately. Thank you very much for this essay.
I did not know that! Very interesting indeed. This was the Wild West period of Psychology when no lawmen or ethics committees were around. At Yale, Stanley Milgram was conducting his famous studies into Obedience to Authority…
“ Make sure you look sciency.” Favourite quote.