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One of the main tasks the Gen Ed Planning Committee has been charged with is developing programs that will resonate with undergraduates and help expand student understanding of Gen Ed’s goals, something Chen says he thinks may be a “hard transition.?...
In a variation of the first study, Gray gave a weight to passersby and told them to hold it for as long as they could in one hand while writing a story with their other hand about themselves doing something heroic, neutral, or evil.
The subjects who wrote about themselves doing good held the weight much longer than those who wrote about themselves doing something neutral. But the subjects who wrote about themselves doing something evil were able to hold the weight longest of all.
“It takes willpower to do something good,” Gray said. “It takes even more to do something evil, for then you have to crush something in your conscience.”
“It’s really interesting to do it with beer,” she said. “You do it with something like Guinness. It tastes really bitter—you put [the tablet] on your tongue and suddenly the Guinness tastes like a milkshake...