Luis asked what happened next - there's not much to tell really.
The incident was discovered via contact with her parents afer the trip was over
and any moral/ethical issues about pretending to have your mother's cancer were
basically left to the family to sort out in their own way.
Since the
I found the following interesting and worth sharing:
A glance at the June issue of "The Atlantic Monthly:"
Did Harvard create the Unabomber?
Alton Chase, who is working on a biography of the Theodore
Kaczynski, widely known as the Unabomber, examines whether Mr.
Kaczynski first came to question
If by "create" the author means "cause", then _all_ of the students
participating in that experiment would have to show a similar effect; I
don't think that there is any evidence of this.
At best, the data would seem to support the supposition that participating
in Murray's (and Milgram's, and
Jeffrey Nagelbush forwarded something from (I believe) _The Chronicle of
Higher Education_ about Ted Kaczynski's participation in a study by Henry
Murray at Harvard. I wrote the following this morning while reading the
original article published in _The Atlantic Monthly_
Hello all,
Just wanted to make everyone aware of this 'late-season' job announcement in
the most recent Chronicle please pass this on to anyone who might be
interested. The area of speciality is open - it would be a great position
for someone who just finished (and defended successfully :-0
Title: Re: Psychology and the Unabomber
The idea that a teacher/mentor can be responsible for
influencing a person is certainly not new, but I think
the Atlantic Monthly article that Jeff Nagelbush brought
to our attention is chilling, and an important reminder that
we may have influence in
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Jeff Ricker went:
This is a study that, it should be obvious, would be considered unethical
today by any institutional review board.
But in 1963, look who published it:
Murray, Henry A. Studies of stressful interpersonal disputations.
American Psychologist 18(1):
Given a recent post on grade inflation, I'm debating the idea of switching
to a norm-referenced grading system. Forget the need to establish criteria
for my grading, as long as I know the distribution of grades that the
university is looking for, I can make it so. I can give a variety of tests
