QotD

[circuit_four]

"In 1939, University of Iowa graduate student Mary Tudor began an experiment with local orphans, warning them that they were showing signs of stuttering and lecturing them whenever they repeated a word. The children became acutely self-conscious, and many began to stutter, fulfilling the theory that “the affliction is caused by the diagnosis.”" --

Comments

[xyzzysqrl]

I'm super-glad you stuck around too.

[relee]

You need more air raid sirens installed in your torso.

I'm glad you're feeling better though.

[taliabear]

I have a present for you! :3

http://www.hulu.com/the-electric-company-1970s

[taliabear]

Dear, I just want you to know that you just saved me from excruciating boredom due to lack of media in Ohio. :D

--Kin, too lazy to log in

[ff00ff]

That grad student turned those poor children into mutants. She is a monster, a monster! I can think of nothing more revolting than a stutterer, and to think some college student failing a Milgram experiment of life turned me into one would probably drive me to kill!

Sidebar: Stanly Milgram, quite prolific, do you think when he's doing other stuff he tries to get it published with headlines about a "new Milgram experiment?"

[relee]

Back in college psychology we covered some of those early experiments. In one, children were given a phobia of anything fluffy and adorable. I'm not even making that up.

[ff00ff]

Kinsey found out how old you have to be to have an orgasm. only a few months. Naturally he learned by doing. I'm sure there's a school of thought that says an infant would be permanently scarred by having an orgasm.

[seritaph]

Brain fixings are good.