Did They Do Voodoo? They Think So

Forget eye of newt, the caldron and, for that matter, the witches. A team of psychologists has a new recipe for conjuring up a curse:

Take several dozen college-age men and women, a fake voodoo doll and an obnoxious man wearing a "Stupid people shouldn't breed" T-shirt. Mix them together in a Harvard University laboratory, and suddenly these young people seriously believe they might have cast a hex and given a headache to the disagreeable man.

It's either groundbreaking social science or the best practical joke ever. Full Story

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