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Consider the Challenger explosion. As with the assassination of John F. Kennedy, most people claim to remember where they were when they heard the news of the shuttle disaster. Ulric Neisser, a psychologist at Emory University, tested that assumption. The day after the 1986 accident he asked 106 students to write down how, when and where they learned the news. Three years later, he tracked down nearly half the group and asked them to describe their memories of the explosion. Though many claimed to recall it clearly, "often the memories were completely wrong," says Neisser. Many students said they...
...researchers also cite as a crucial influence the work of Cornell's Ulric Neisser, whom White describes as "a cognitive psychologist who denounced his own movement." He explains "Neisser argued that you're never going to understand the way people think just by sitting around in laboratories doing hothouse little experiments. People are not computers--what you've got to do is go out and watch people behaving in everyday settings. I suppose we're working in that spirit...
...show the people of the racist mobilization that they don't own the streets and they don't own South Boston," CULA spokesman Frank Neisser said...
Almost in answer to this statement, Rhine's colleagues on the panel raised philosophical objections to the parapsychologist's explanation of ESP experiments. Ulric R. G. Neisser '50, of the psychology department at Brandeis University, suggested that the data could be described more accurately by discarding customary theories of casuality...
...Rhine, professor at Duke University, speaks on "Progress in ESP Research" tonight at 8 p.m. in the Law School Forum at Ames Court Room, Austin Hall. Other Forum participants will be Edwin G. Boring, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Emeritus; Ulric Neisser, Brandeis University; and Timothy Leary, Lecturer in Clinical Psychology...