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In one classic rat study by Bruce Alexander, emeritus professor of psychology at Simon Fraser University, researchers measured the impact of the social and physical environment on the risk of morphine addiction. They found that rats kept in small, isolated cages readily chose to self-administer high, frequent doses of...
College administrators say they are currently developing a program to support summer research in fields such as economics, psychology, sociology, and government. Called Behavioral Laboratory In the Social Sciences, or BLISS, the program will be modeled after the Harvard College Program for Research in Science and Engineering established five years...
Though psychology professor Mahzarin R. Banaji said she had not heard of the program, she quipped in an e-mail that “the program indeed sounds like bliss to me given the struggle we face finding summer research support for our concentrators each year.”
Psychology concentrator Denetrias J. Charlemagne ’11 agreed, stating that a program like BLISS would be very helpful to students.
It's unclear how wide a cross section of society Friedman used to draw his conclusions, but it's possible they may have been a bit skewed. His previous three books were explorations of the psychology of a small but prominent group of people with powerful matriarchs and lots and...