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Old 11-05-2007, 09:51 AM
luckyme luckyme is offline
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Default Re: Comment from my born again Christian Aunt

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If you could somehow do a controlled experiment, eg measuring galvanic skin potentials, I believe that you would see a much bigger response if you told a person that a friend of theirs still alive had been abducted and tortured than if you told them that a dead friend of theirs was in hell.

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Almost certainly, but we'd have to control for a compound effect, "oh, no, not here Too !".

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