Milgram Obedience Study replicated 50 years later

Stanley Milgram was an assistant professor at Yale University in 1961 when he conducted the first in a series of experiments in which subjects – thinking they were testing the effect of punishment on learning – administered what they believed were increasingly powerful electric shocks to another person in a separate room. An authority figure conducting the experiment prodded the first person, who was assigned the role of "teacher" to continue shocking the other person, who was playing the role of "learner." In reality, both the authority figure and the learner were in on the real intent of the experiment, and the imposing-looking shock generator machine was a fake.

Milgram found that, after hearing the learner's first cries of pain at 150 volts, 82.5 percent of participants continued administering shocks; of those, 79 percent continued to the shock generator's end, at 450 volts. " Jerry M. Burger, PhD, replicated one of the famous obedience experiments of the late Stanley Milgram, PhD, and found that compliance rates in the replication were only slightly lower than those found by Milgram....

Read about it here.

Voice Authenticity While Blogging--Part 2

If anyone's reading please comment! (Pssssst, especially those who knew me in real life first) Greenbetty says she experiences me as very different online. *VERY* different? Really? I wonder if this is because we "met" through blogging first? My friends who knew me in real life first often tell me that they can hear my voice, can see *ME* in my posts. Fascinating! These are the themes I tried to explore in my novel--the facets of our relationships within different mediums.

I agree that there might be different aspects of Self coming through more clearly in different modes of expression, I definitely try to facilitate the conversational "me" in these posts. I don't compose my posts, I type my thoughts as they come--for this very reason. This is what I meant by authenticity of voice.

Enough with lemons

Making lemonade now.

Voice authenticity while blogging

Over the years I've noticed that some of my friends sound differently on their blogs than in real life. It's like their on-line personality is different. I wonder sometimes whether the voices I hear in my head when I read blogs of strangers correspond to their real voices. Ever since taking seminars in personality psychology I wondered about personas that we assume on-line--consciously or unconsciously (this was almost my thesis).

I hope to sound on my blog the same I sound over a cup of tea, if we were sitting in my kitchen and chatting. Here I am now. In my kitchen. In my pyjamas. My tea isn't ready yet. This is me. I don't draft or revise my posts. I type very fast--thank you Ms. Z. of Riverdale C.I. who insisted I take keyboarding in grade 13 when I first came to Canada (Key? Boards? I was confused). I enjoy an good laugh at myself. I hope this all results in a rather conversational, easy going blog.

To get me going at blogging again, I promise to write a post a day for the month of January. Thirty-one in Thirty-one in 2009!

I woke up with a sore throat.
My tea's ready.

I haven't blogged for almost a year

Well, helloooooooooooooo! Anyone still here? That's okay, don't feel bad. Or I'll feel bad too, and that's not good.


I'll be blogging again. Everyone says I should, and besides, I like it. So I'll briefly update. I'm no longer on Baffin Island. For the last seven months we've been in Nova Scotia. We came for a visit and fell in love with Nova Scotia, and we are staying here, at least for now. It's been good to us--to my writing, to our kids. I finished my novel and even sent it out. The waiting begins. I started a new novel. Set in Nova Scotia, of course. There'll be ghosts, and a murder--I'm quite surprised by this development, but it is coming along nicely.

I miss Iqaluit. We'll be visiting it in April or May--for several months. I'm glad we have a chance to go back.

There's a flash of mine in new elimae, check it out!