Learn about why you want things just because others do too; a way to reduce wrongful convictions; and Fermilab’s ferret.
"Mimetic desires" are things you want because others want them — here's how to spot them by Steffie Drucker
To reduce wrongful convictions, test a witness's memory only once by Grant Currin
- One and done: Researchers urge testing eyewitness memory only once. (2021, November 3). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/933794
- Wixted, J. T., Wells, G. L., Loftus, E. F., & Garrett, B. L. (2021). Test a Witness’s Memory of a Suspect Only Once. Psychological Science in the Public Interest, 22(1_suppl), 1S18S. https://doi.org/10.1177/15291006211026259
- Kimball, S. (2021, January 28). US Supreme Court turns down Texas death row case concerning police hypnosis. Jurist.org; - JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. https://www.jurist.org/news/2021/01/us-supreme-court-turns-down-texas-death-row-case-concerning-police-hypnosis/
In the 1970s, one of Fermilab’s particle accelerator techs was a ferret named Felicia by Cameron Duke
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