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

[Mr Reivaj]

El 15 de mayo de 2013 20:47, Javier Armentia
<javier.armentia en gmail.com>escribió:

> Al hilo de estas cosas, un texto interesante:
> http://inkfish.fieldofscience.**com/2013/05/how-to-convince-**
> people-wifi-is-making.html<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
> <<
> 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. (...)
> >>
> Saludos
>
> javier
> (el miedo es libre... o también: el miedo está en una cesta y cada uno
> coge lo que quiere)
>
> [MR] Efectivamente pero en el estudio no se habla de miedos. Los sujetos
informan de sus "sentimientos", de lo que sienten. Eso es. A partir de ahí :
"Though the researchers set out to show how irresponsible reports in the
media can trigger a nocebo effect, they ended up showing how easy it is to
make a person feel sick with just aa prop and a few choice words. Even a
National Radio Quiet Zone can't protect against that."
Interesante trabajo.
Salud



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Mr Reivaj
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