[escepticos] Re: El miedo como estímulo inhibidor de respuesta

[Javier Armentia]

Al hilo de estas cosas, un texto interesante:
http://inkfish.fieldofscience.com/2013/05/how-to-convince-people-wifi-is-making.html
"How to Convince People WiFi Is Making Them Sick", por Elizabeth 
Preston, en Inkfish
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Psychologists Michael Witthöft and G. James Rubin of King's College 
London explored whether frightening TV reports can encourage a nocebo 
effect. They recruited a group of subjects and showed half of them a 
clip from a BBC documentary about the potential dangers of wireless 
internet. (The BBC later acknowledged that the 2007 program was 
"misleading.") The remaining subjects watched a video about the security 
of data transmissions over mobile phones.

After watching the videos, subjects put on headband-mounted antennas. 
They were told that the researchers were testing a "new kind of WiFi," 
and that once the signal started they should carefully monitor any 
symptoms in their bodies. Then the researchers left the room. For 15 
minutes, the subjects watched a WiFi symbol flash on a laptop screen.

In reality, there was no WiFi switched on during the experiment, and the 
headband antenna was a sham. Yet 82 of the 147 subjects—more than 
half—reported symptoms. Two even asked for the experiment to be stopped 
early because the effects were too severe to stand. (...)
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Saludos

javier
(el miedo es libre... o también: el miedo está en una cesta y cada uno 
coge lo que quiere)

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