Dilettante
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The Newsmax article was about a piece in the London Spectator that used the study as a lead-in:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=back&issue=2003-07-26&id=3341
The study was actually done several years ago. Not only did the experimenters bump into the students deliberately, they shouted back an insult afterwards ("???????!")
Maybe students from California were less effected because out here, that's how you say "excuse me".
IIRC they wanted to find out how stressful this was for the "victim". An increase in stress levels doesn't tell you that he is aggressive or wanted to start a fight. It does suggest that the incident seemed more dangerous to him than to someone who didn't react physiologically.
The guy who wrote the Spectator article used this as a springboard for his own smug opinions. What a prick.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=back&issue=2003-07-26&id=3341
The study was actually done several years ago. Not only did the experimenters bump into the students deliberately, they shouted back an insult afterwards ("???????!")
Maybe students from California were less effected because out here, that's how you say "excuse me".
IIRC they wanted to find out how stressful this was for the "victim". An increase in stress levels doesn't tell you that he is aggressive or wanted to start a fight. It does suggest that the incident seemed more dangerous to him than to someone who didn't react physiologically.
The guy who wrote the Spectator article used this as a springboard for his own smug opinions. What a prick.