PSYCHOLOGY FINDS itself in the midst of a major media renaissance: bestselling books, popular magazine stories, blog posts that go viral. The public cannot get enough.
Yet among researchers, there is a dawning awareness of a potentially serious issue at the core of what they do. The experiments that offer so many insights and takeaways might be seriously flawed — the result of relying on too homogenous a sample. The engine of science runs on the fuel of experiments. If you are interested in conducting psychology experiments, you need people. And if you are a researcher at a university there is an obvious solution, the sea of undergrads right on campus.
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Again, I believe it is an extremely poor decision for the Globe to publish images from the Rorschach. In the past month, two of the images have been included with articles on the site. That means that the Globe has exposed 20% of a personality assessment tool that is without peer just in the past month. I ask, again, would the Globe publish 20% of the questions on the SAT if there were no copyright concerns? Or would that be considered a poor choice because of the impact it would have on countless people's lives? Whatever your answer, you should understand that that applies to the Rorschach, too.