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...guidelines are an attempt to reconcile what is best for the patient - providing treatment that may help - and what is ethically upright. They also reveal a fundamental change in the way modern scientists view the relationship between mind and body. In 1979, a similar survey of American doctors found that 60% of respondents believed that using placebos was a good way to deduce whether a patient had a "real" problem or was just faking it. In the current study, 80% of doctors disagreed with that statement. "That's a significant shift in doctors' thinking in a relatively short time," says...
...three Super Bowl victories, he was Nice Bill, a tireless if disheveled football chess master who had finally escaped the capacious shadow of Bill Parcells, the Super Bowl-winning coach for whom he had toiled as a longtime assistant. Claiming three of four Super Bowls is a truly mind-boggling feat, given that the NFL's salary-cap structure is designed to spread the wealth and prevent dominance. It takes some kind of football genius to escape the league's parity policy...
...weird thing," says Edward Hirt, an Indiana University psychology professor who has studied fan behavior. "Fans' emotions are often conflicted, which is even surprising to themselves. The Pats offer a kind of win-win situation. You can root against them, but you kind of wouldn't mind seeing a perfect season. And if they lose, you'll enjoy seeing them get their comeuppance." As for that drab, villainous coach everyone supposedly despises: Belichick's trademark hooded sweatshirt is now the top-selling Patriots merchandise item. The hoodie! "I wish I was getting a cut of the sales," says a smiling...
...always, Iowa condensed the presidential campaign to a human scale, something that is simply impossible almost anywhere else in the country. Yes, there were mind-numbing and endless sleek television ads, hyped rallies and forceful phone calls and mail pieces. But an extraordinary number of Iowa voters made their decisions because of face-to-face contact with the candidates. They listened to the contenders speak and told their own stories. With the candidates unable to hide behind consultants or façades, their worry lines, hoarse voices and unguarded reactions were on full display. And in the end, Iowans used their...
While other students spent winter break slaving over papers, the members of Mind, Brain, and Behavior 152, âConsumable Science,â had a different project: They launched an organization...