Posted by alexandra_k on January 3, 2006, at 23:23:51
In reply to Re: A new therapeutic technique!? » alexandra_k, posted by fires on January 3, 2006, at 21:44:28
> Strawberry ice cream was used in another study.
yeah well i never liked strawberry ice cream all that much anyways and why have strawberry when you can have chocolate ;-)
> "We need to test whether the effects are long lasting," warns psychologist Elizabeth Loftus ..."
heh heh.
> Why not? It worked with strawberry ice cream.for how long?
5 minutes ;-)
> It has worked in other ways. Patients cling to false memories of satanic ritual abuse, incest, date rape, etc...In SOME instances... Yes they do. I wonder whether there might be a psychological motivation for that that might be a different mechanism than the motivation involved in retaining food preferences (where nausea is fairly 'primitive' and does have strong power to change food preferences)
Seems to me that would be harder to do then believing that a food made one ill.
psychological motivation may make all the difference in the world...
> > secondly with the ethics of implanting false beliefs
> Depends on the reason for doing so ?If you are a utilitarian yes.
If you are a Kantian no.> What if serial rapists could be implanted with memories that the act of committing rape made them *seriously* ill.
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