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The “Little Albert” experiment was named, predictably, after a baby named Albert who was the center of a cruel experiment on inducing fear in children. It was carried out by John B. Watson and his graduate student, Rosalie Rayner, at Johns Hopkins University in 1920. They wanted to know whether it was possible to condition a phobia into a child. In the experiment, Little Albert was placed in a room with a regular white lab rat, which he had no problem playing with. Next, the experimenters made a loud sound every time Albert reached for the rat — which, not surprisingly, caused him to cry out in fear. Over time, Albert would recoil in fear every time he saw the rat, even in the absence of the loud sound. They later found that Albert had generalized his fear to include other furry objects, including a dog, a sealskin coat, and a man dressed as Santa Claus. Even though they basically tortured the poor child, it was considered an important leap for psychology. The American Psychological Association reports that Albert was, in fact, a nine-month-old named Douglas whose mother was employed as a wet nurse at a campus hospital and received $1 for her child’s participation in Watson’s experiment. The fear conditioning the baby went through was never reversed.

 

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 Most people could sit at the kitchen table and figure the result out without any experiments.

Most I believe do that on a daily basis the world over.

It's called common sense it's parenting it's raising a child.

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A nice photo for anyone who thinks a doner kebab is a modern thing.  This historic photo was taken 171 years ago by James Robertson (1813-88) during his visit to Istanbul in 1853

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 This is where tacos al pastor (tacos of the shepherd) come from. Lebanese immigrants brought this to Mexico well over 100 years ago..

That "spit" stacked with meat is called a trompo. Lots of taquerias near me have trompos. 

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To deliberately induce fear in a child is ridiculous.

I am petrified of spiders, no one in my family are, and my mum always put them out without fuss. It's an irrational fear I know, and I have no idea where it came from, but no one instilled it in me.

My mum was scared of thunderstorms, I only found that out when I was an adult. She never showed fear of them when I was a kid.

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 My mum was terrified of thunderstorms.   We can trace that back to her being 5 when the Blitz hit London.  All those bombs had an affect on her.  She remembers going down the Tube to be safe but eventually she was evacuated to North Wales.  

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 It must have been a terrible time, no wonder so many had traumas long after the war.

I don't think PTSD was ever heard of in those days.

Once we went to a Cornish visitors centre, inside were re-enactments of the blitz, with the sirens and bunkers, it was an eerie place.

My mum waited outside...she couldn't face reliving those memories.

In 2019, the Dutch police arrested a bird for taking part in a robbery, put it in a jail cell with bread and water and when the media reported on it they put a little black bar over the face to protect its identity.

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In 2019, the Dutch police arrested a bird for taking part in a robbery, put it in a jail cell with bread and water and when the media reported on it they put a little black bar over the face to protect its identity.

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 Was his name Robin?

This is the largest explosion in London's history: It happened during the Great War, just before 7pm on Friday 19th January 1917. Fifty tonnes of TNT exploded at the Brunner Mond munitions factory in Silvertown, East London, devastating the Royal Victoria Dock, flattening 900 local homes and damaging nearly 70,000 buildings across the city. Burning debris scattered for miles, causing many fires and a gas cylinder explosion in North Greenwich. The fire could be seen as far away as Guildford, Surrey, whilst the shockwaves were felt in Norfolk and Southampton. The explosion killed 73 outright - including many local children - and over 400 people were injured by the blast, yet it is an incident few Londoners have even heard of.

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One of the selfies taken by James Holmes the day of the Aurora shooting.

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 Looks a nutter!

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What's the most unbelievable thing that has ever happened in the history of mankind
that makes it difficult to grasp the reality that the event occurred?
When the sunset, the giant reptiles attacked and in the darkness blood-curdling screams echoed.
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 Apparently there might have been a problem with this account.

In his 2011 analysis of the Burma campaign, the historian Frank McLynn challenged this interpretation, saying,

Most of all, there is a single zoological problem. If 'thousands of crocodiles' were involved in the massacre, as in the urban (jungle) myth, how had these ravening monsters survived before and how were they to survive later? The ecosystem of a mangrove swamp, with an exiguous mammal life, simply would not have permitted the existence of so many saurians before the coming of the Japanese (animals are not exempt from the laws of overpopulation and starvation).

In 2016, Sam Willis, a historian, reported that he had found documents indicating that the Japanese soldiers mostly drowned and/or were shot and that crocodiles scavenged on their corpses afterwards.