Since first described by Botvinick & Cohen in 1998, The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) has been extensively investigated. But few researchers have explored the possibility of enhancing the illusion by making the fake hand a little less, shall we say, ‘rubbery’. Prompting Antal Haans, assistant professor of environmental psychology in the Human-Technology Interaction group at […]
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Do Women Pretend Orgasm to Retain a Mate?, and another question
Today is Two Questions Day. Question #1: Do some researchers choose topics to attract attention? Question #2: Do women pretend orgasm to retain a mate? The following study sheds light on at least one of today’s questions: “Do Women Pretend Orgasm to Retain a Mate?” Farnaz Kaighobadi, Todd K. Shackelford [pictured here] and Viviana A. Weekes-Shackelford, Archives […]
The Legendary Dr Fox Lecture — Footage Found!
Reto Schneider, curator of the WeirdExperiments.com web site (and Reto is also Improbable Research’s Swiss Desk Chief), has made a happy discovery. Full details are on his site. Here’s how he begins the tale: Several years ago when I first wrote about the famous Dr Fox lecture I thought the original footage was lost forever. […]
For Munchhausen enthusiasts, real or pretending
If you are enthusiastic, or want to be enthusiastic, or are inclined or prone to fake being enthusiastic about faking illness or about people who do, one source of information is Dr. Marc Feldman’s Munchausen Syndrome, Malingering, Factitious Disorder, & Munchausen by Proxy Page. (Thanks to investigator Scott Langill for bringing this to our attention.) […]