Posts Tagged with "psychology"
Can Good Citizens Emerge from a Robot Nation?
Here’s Adam Yamaguchi’s documentary on the looming population crisis in Japan and the potential of humanoid robots as a solution. Sound crazy? It might not be. One interesting theme in this documentary is that populating Japan with robots is seen as a better policy compared to one of broadened immigration. Foreigners, Yamaguchi argues, are a more [...]
Continue reading...Introducing Little Albert: Poster Boy for Unethical Human Research
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
For those of you who have never come across this case, Little Albert is a famous baby used in some very unethical research performed by John Watson a good while back. Thankfully, psychologists have begun to care about the psychological state of their patients. I got a good laugh from this video, which attempts to put [...]
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- Jason Millar: I take your point regarding the market/business experience. My understanding is that the board is required (though maybe in a loose sense) to have the...
- Michael Karlin: It's not as contrversial as it seems. He is one vote of 17, and adds some element of market expertise to the group. Most of the Governing Council...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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