Diva
01-27-02, 02:07AM
A Sussex scientist is to planning to use a little-known Australian marsupial to research children's phobias (http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_504749.html?menu=news.scienceanddiscovery).
Psychologist Andy Field will tell children positive and negative stories and then show them pictures of a quokka. "Negative information like, 'The dog will bite you' has much more effect on a child than a positive statement like, 'The dog is loveable'."
He's looking for children aged 6 to 12. I find it hard to accept the fact that anyone would allow to 'create' a phobia in a child in order to find out what scares them. "In the name of science" is more like "Bored with my job". Or "How to spend your taxpayers' dollars".
Psychologist Andy Field will tell children positive and negative stories and then show them pictures of a quokka. "Negative information like, 'The dog will bite you' has much more effect on a child than a positive statement like, 'The dog is loveable'."
He's looking for children aged 6 to 12. I find it hard to accept the fact that anyone would allow to 'create' a phobia in a child in order to find out what scares them. "In the name of science" is more like "Bored with my job". Or "How to spend your taxpayers' dollars".