... The effects are i.m.o. similar, in the sense that both cause intoxication. The difference is that everybody knows that you can get drunk from drink, but...
... I'd have to dispute this premise. Even those who are drunk have control over their behavior. The effects of a drug, as far as I understand it, are...
Rob Ryley wrote: big snip ... big snip I personally am of the opinion that prescription narcotics, that is, drugs prescribed by physicians to influence...
Your comments about the scenarios where someone is made to drink wine or drinks wine because he has been told that the wine is not alcoholic, etc remind me of ...
... How do you measure stuff like sleepiness, sadness, excitement, or being in love? You can't, of course, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. You...
... It would depend, of course, on which drug, how much, and what the individual's response is. You remind me of an incident related in Gemma Blok's history of...
... Is society really more violent today than it has been in the past? There do seem to be pretty grim stories often printed in the news at times, often the...
I am not sure those things cannot be measured. Maybe the measurements would not be as accurate as other measuresments but I think numbers can be assigned to ...
... Some forms of violence are measurable, like murders and traffic accidents. I don't compile these statistics myself, but am dependent on the media for...
I think there is some recent research about placebos that indicates a person's expectations about how drugs affect them do not have quite the effect that the ...
... Not to me. I.m.o. research on the human psyche, with its infinite complexity and environmental variables, can never yield meaningful results. Mira...
I doubt that many psychologists would say they are studying the "human psyche". Psychologists attempt to use the scientific method to study behavior. A study...
Mira, Well said but as a 'lurker' I learn a lot from everyone's back and forth. In terms of political action, I do want to let you know of two groups who are...
the link does not work. since the subject is of importance to me can you please put a working link so i could save the info? Hagai Aviel/Chairperson Israeli...
Charles Howard wrote: But in doing the empirical study, we might discover something that was contrary to our intuitions. Ah! The Hawthorne Effect. When (I...
To Hagai Aviel: Depending on the security settings of your computer, you may not be able to go to the site that mira gave by "clicking" your mouse pointer on...
i tried again the link without the final sign ) and this time it works. Hagai ... _________________________________________________________________ Express...
Doguardi Matthew asked: How do you measure stuff like aggression? The sad thing is the fact that such things as love, aggression, unhappiness, etc. can't be...
Raising and lowering the voice in conversations sounds interesting to me. Actors learn to modulate their voices. And sales people, I ssume. Does raising and...
... were doing ... lighting ... seemed to go ... being done - ... longer one ... single blind ... the study ... part of any ... True, but now psychologists are...
"... to predict behavior is to constrain behavior" - an interesting observation. Not sure that I necessarily agree with it. You attribute the comment to...
Hi friends, Our group is producing twice a month a one hour radio program called "dissident radio" [Dissidentenfunk]. Now we have in mind to invent new mental...
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I believe we have 10,000 or so. Been around since 1946. Created to be the conscience of the AMA. Needed it then and definitely needs it now. ... I took a...
Here's some advertisement on Zoloft: http://www.zoloft.com/index.asp?pageid=52 Advertisement starts after dotted lines ... The information provided in this...
... You might like to check out Szasz: Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man. In his essay _Psychiatric classification as a...
for the 1998 foucault tribunal dr. bauer, one of the organizers, coined the phrase: "the power to define is the power to confine" Hagai Aviel/Chairperson ...
... That's because in other countries, like mine, advertising drugs to the people who are supposed to take them is illegal. Ostensibly that is to protect us...
Rob, I have looked at "Ideology and Insanity", pp. 207 - 210 and I do not see the statement "to predict behavior is to constrain behavior". Szasz asserts that...
