Can hot sauce be used as a substitute for electrical shocks?
The first scholarly paper describing the use of chili sauce as a method of inducing pain in psychological experimentees was published in 1999. The so-called Hot Sauce Paradigm (HSP) was suggested as an alternative to previously-used but ethically-problematic methods – such as administering electric shocks. “Our goal was to provide an opportunity for people to…
Low-flying helicopters + dairy goats = a curious experiment
“The overflight produced a noise that was even impressive to the human observers.” The overflight in question was that of a low-flying Chinook helicopter. It was participating in a recent experiment which was attempting to answer the question ‘Do goats get stressed-out by low-flying helicopters?’ To find out, a group of Dutch investigators exposed five…
