How does one catch a rock that plummets to earth from outer space? Scott Sandford, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, is seen in the photo below (he is at the left) with the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule immediately after it landed in Utah on September 24, 2023. This was the first sample ever […]
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The ‘Rocking Chair Paradigm’ [study]
In 2007 (or thereabouts) researchers from Colby College, US, the University of Connecticut, US and the College of the Holy Cross, US, jointly came up with the ‘Rocking Chair Paradigm’. The paradigm provided a new method to investigate whether, in some situations, people are prone to (consciously or unconsciously ) synchronize their movements with each […]
Forensic professor news: Piano-sentence and Poker/Rock/Scissors
El Espagnol reports “The rocambolesque story of the psychiatrist who ‘scammed’ the US and was sentenced to play the piano“. The news article begins [here machine-translated from Spanish to English]: An American psychiatrist has recently been reprimanded by the US Government Office of Integrity in Research, after having already been convicted. His crime: steal several […]
Do Test-Takers Pay Attention to Rock Lyrics? [research study]
“Effects of Aggressive and Nonaggressive Rock Songs on Projective and Structured Tests,” C.E. Wanamaker and M. Reznikoff, Journal of Psychology, vol. 123, no. 6, November 1989, pp. 561-570. The authors, at Fordham University, Bronx, NY, conclude that: “The findings are congruent with other investigators’ reports that subjects do not pay attention to rock lyrics. ” […]
