Reasons I didn't go into psychology as an undergrad

[jebbypal]

Humans can track like dogs

Aren't you glad this wasn't you:
Researchers at the University of California,Berkeley, have found that people can follow a scent surprisingly well,as long as they do not mind abandoning all dignity, putting their noseright to the ground and crawling along with their bottoms in the air.....

The purpose of the experiment was to inquire whether having twonostrils spaced slightly apart helps track a scent, just as having twoears enables the brain to locate the source of a sound. But dogs cannotreport what they are doing and object to procedures like having onenostril blocked. So the Berkeley researchers, led by Noam Sobel andJess Porter, chose more docile experimental animals: psychologydepartment undergraduates.

There's gotta be footage on youtube, right? LOL

---

along different lines, what does it mean when your relative gives you what might be whale vomit? (nytimes)

Comments

[adelheide.livejournal.com]

Huh. Whale vomit. There's something you do get as a gift everyday...