A 5 year old living in an apartment in Siberia without heat? Did the dogs and cats bring her food too? Seems pretty unlikely. Marie
**************************************************** Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D. Department Chair and Associate Professor of Psychology Kaufman 168, Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013 Office: (717) 245-1562, Fax: (717) 245-1971 http://www.dickinson.edu/departments/psych/helwegm/ **************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 5:56 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Feral children Beth Benoit noted: > there's also a sort of cheesy video I have showing a Russian girl who > barks like a dog - a little suspicious - and some mentions (and photos) > of > Indian children who were feral. The most famous of the feral Indian children claims is the sorry tale of Amala and Kamala, the alleged wolf-children, almost certainly a hoax from start to finish. Ogburn and Bose provided an early expose of this story in their investigation. "On the trail of the wolf-children", Genetic Psychology Monographs, 1959 Aug;60:117-93. Didn't do any good. But in timely fashion a new story of a Russian girl barking like a dog has just popped up ("Russian police find feral girl in Siberia", LA Times, May 28/09 at http://tinyurl.com/ll28dj See also an earlier version at http://cbs2.com/watercooler/dogs.raise.girl.2.1021400.html Sounds like another Amala-Kamala case to me. I join Beth in her suspicion, LA Times notwithstanding. Stephen ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology, Emeritus Bishop's University e-mail: [email protected] 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Subscribe to discussion list (TIPS) for the teaching of psychology at http://flightline.highline.edu/sfrantz/tips/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
