tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28126417267202992862024-02-07T22:12:24.155-08:00Goretical Stimulation: Your brain on horrorWe hope to demonstrate that horror films can teach us something unique about ourselves, our brains, and our fascination with things that make us squirm, weep, and cower.Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-66271084647625967192012-03-10T11:50:00.005-08:002012-03-10T11:50:52.329-08:00Shrooms (2007)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are a God-loving American catholic schoolgirl, it
must be that nothing seems better than heading into an Irish forest with a
group of friends to ingest some highly potent hallucinogenic mushrooms. Or at
least, that’s one of those ideas that seem good until you start having
seizures, visions, premonitions, and your friends keep wandering off and getting
their limbs mangled while you keep waking up disoriented and covered in blood. But
of course, that won’t happen to you, right? That’s what all the kids say. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The infamous psychologist Timothy Leary celebrated hallucinogens.
For him ‘magic mushrooms’ were a natural supplement to any investigation into
the self. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For those interested,
you can check out his ‘classic’ literature <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Turn-Tune-Drop-Timothy-Leary/dp/1579510094" target="_blank">here</a>,
and don’t forget the hard-to-find but worth-while album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Turn-Tune-Drop-Timothy-Leary/dp/B000008HM9" target="_blank">here</a>).
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providing insight into how this drug affects the brain, producing its
characteristic hallucinations and other-worldly perceptions. For instance, a
well-publicized recent research article reports in detail the changes in brain
activation while ‘under the influence’ of hallucinogens. In this study, the
researchers used functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to observe the
brain while participants were—ahem-- ‘tripping’. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The participants were not given a specific task, instructed
instead to simply ‘relax’. The results showed that, rather than sporadically
exciting a diversity of brain areas (as the subjective experience of a drug
trip might suggest), or throwing subjects into violent black-out states (as
silly slasher films like to imply), the drug actually reduced activity in the
hubs that coordinate activity across important brain regions—regions that other
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centers, the authors suggest that mushrooms may be useful in helping people
with depression overcome their rigid, negative thoughts by loosening the maladaptive
connections that the hubs maintain. Whether or not this is the case remains to
be determined, but it is certainly clear that we will hear lots more about the
neuroscience of drug trips in the near future—though we doubt that they’ll explain
why some catholic schoolgirls tend to walk around strange Irish forests with
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Carhart-Harris, R.L., Erritzoe, D., Williams, T., Stone,
J.M., Reed, L.J., Colasanti, A., Tyacke, R.J., Leech, R., Malizia, A.L.,
Murphy, K., Hobden, P., Evans, J., Feilding, A., Wise, R.G., & Nutt, D.J.
(2012). Neural correlates of the psychedelic state as determined by fMRI
studies with psilocybin. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences, 109</i>(6), 2138-2143.</span></div>
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(2007). Shrooms [Motion picture]. Ireland: Vertigo Films(UK). </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The eponymous character of the film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Patrick </i>(1978) sure is in a tough spot-- until he decides to kill
his mother and her lover by electrocuting them in the bathtub! But this doesn't
solve much, as he soon finds himself deep in a coma without a chance of recovery,
kept alive only by the most advanced technology and by the grand scientific
aspirations-- or sadistic machinations-- of a doctor interested in the moment
living things stop living. With no hope of recovery, many of us might abhor the
idea of living as a vegetable for three years, probed and prodded endlessly for
science; but then again, most of us will not develop telekinetic powers with
which to torment our science-minded overlords, tossing them from windows or
drowning them in their own pools!</span></div>
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best of cases, and it continues to challenge doctors today. Interestingly,
recent advancements in neuroscience are revealing that people might posses more
awareness than was historically thought. Misapplication of a ‘vegetative state’
diagnosis can be serious, and may potentially result in the treatment of coma
patients as vegetative when they are actually capable of some degree of
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electrical changes in coma patients' brains and while giving them commands to
imagine motor movements of their right-hand or toes. Surprisingly, in some of
the patients tested (19%), the electroencephalogram (i.e., the measurements of
brain activity) showed that these patients were indeed imagining the motor
movements, and they were responding to verbal commands in ways similar to
neurologically healthy control participants. Importantly, by looking at the
brain’s response to different commands, the researchers were able to determine
that some vegetative patients <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are</i>
aware, retaining some aspects of normal cognitive functioning. Does this change
the way we think about comas? Certainly. Alas, however, the development of
telekinetic powers has not been detected in coma patients (or in patients that
are completely aware for that matter – but see our post on “Red Mist” for a fun
fake neuroscientific explanation of telekinesis!). </span></div>
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</span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-17683736894753791462012-01-01T16:01:00.000-08:002012-01-01T16:01:40.775-08:00Faces in the Crowd (2011)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Milla Jovovich takes a break from blasting off zombie heads in the popular Resident Evil series to take on the roll of victim and hero Anna Marchant in the recently released Faces in the Crowd (2011). A horror-thriller we simply had to see, Faces in the Crowd adopts as its premise a very uncommon yet well studied neuropsychological phenomena- -that of face blindness or ‘Prosopagnosia’. In the film, Anna Marchant’s simple life is suddenly shaken when she unwittingly stumbles across an elusive serial murderer engaged in a diabolical deed. Facing (heh) the infamous killer, she attempts to flee but falls off a bridge, hitting her head on the way down. She survives the fall and emerges from the hospital as the only living person to have seen the killer. Naturally, she becomes a valuable resource to the authorities investigating the serial killer’s case. The problem, however, is that she can no longer recognize faces! Such a curious deficit allows the writers of Faces in the Crowd (2011) to introduce all sorts of high adrenaline hjinks in which Anna is hunted by an assailant she has seen but can no longer recognize. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prosopagnosia is a neuropsychological impairment that results from damage to the temporal lobe of the brain—a region that appears to be specialized for processing objects and faces. Commonly, patients with prosopagnosia can <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see</i> just fine—there is no problem with vision. In fact, they can continue to recognize objects by sight, and often don’t have a problem recognizing people by their voices or bodily movements. This bizarre condition seems to be specific the visual recognition of people’s faces. Indeed, they can tell the thing they are looking at is a face but can’t tell <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whose</i> face it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is as though they are unable to put all the parts—the eyes, the nose, the mouth—together in a unified, integrated perception. Some patients have even reported the curious inability to recognize themselves in a mirror! For most of us, this phenomenon is particularly difficult to imagine and we’re not sure how useful Faces in the Crowd is at providing first-person insight into this bizarre deficit (example <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwCrxomPbtY">here</a>); unlike Anna Marchant’s problem, for instance, prosopagosics are not challenged with an ever changing stream of actors. Despite this, Faces in the Crowd does encourage us to reflect on the remarkable ability of the brain to distinguish and recognize people by their faces, a skill that seems to rely on specialized neural circuits and one that is so effortless we take for granted. As the psychiatrist in the film emphasizes, “faces are the barcode of the human race”, and this is something that deficits like prosopagnosia reveal in staggering detail. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<!--EndFragment-->Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-6215446838718220192011-10-08T21:27:00.000-07:002011-10-08T21:29:20.933-07:00The Experiment (2010)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Lmdjtd0wO-zLIjZaphZq9-zl5Wtm6zFz4K3x-6nYtTb1LnsFPjuJAK58dpRjuw4YeERFMMDPdV1IAJLTs4mH_FHcLDYtnZ6SSzW0u9iqIxa9q0CrZmQ7xBS6O8lIo46Co2pSsMtTHRY/s1600/expt1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Lmdjtd0wO-zLIjZaphZq9-zl5Wtm6zFz4K3x-6nYtTb1LnsFPjuJAK58dpRjuw4YeERFMMDPdV1IAJLTs4mH_FHcLDYtnZ6SSzW0u9iqIxa9q0CrZmQ7xBS6O8lIo46Co2pSsMtTHRY/s320/expt1.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In recognition of the 40<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the <a href="http://www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2011/julaug/features/spe.html">Stanford Prison Experiment</a>, we decided to watch the relatively recent film <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Experiment</i> (2010), an American remake of the famed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Das Experiment</i> (2001). Both films are based loosely on events that transpired during a historic week in the basement of a Stanford University building. In the Prison study, now a classic in the annals of psychology, people were recruited from the surrounding community, and assigned to role-play as ‘guards’ or ‘prisoners’ in a mock jail. The participants were given a set of rules to follow, based on their assigned role, in order to facilitate the atmosphere of the jail. Though the researchers planned on running the study for two weeks, the experiment was terminated after only six days as the participants unexpectedly adopted their roles too thoroughly. The ‘guards’ began to abuse the ‘prisoners’, demeaning and humiliating them, and dehumanizing them viciously. Over the course of just 6 days, ‘prisoners’ lost their sense of will and independence, and became depersonalized and depressed. The original study is famed for its demonstration that, when it comes to overt behavior, regular, law-abiding everyday people are capable of terrible things under the influence of certain situational factors. Though the Stanford Prison experiment is not without criticism, decades of psychological research shows that one thing is clear: ‘good’ people can do ‘bad’ things.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plot of the film follows the recorded events relatively faithfully, but introduces unexpected themes of ‘survival’, ‘evolution’, and ‘instinct’ (what do these clips of eels fighting and dead puppies have to do with anything?) The most unfortunate thing about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Experiment</i> (2010), however, is that it overlooks the critical conclusion of the Stanford Prison experiment, and one that we, in assessing the behaviour of others, frequently lose sight of— often, a person’s behaviour is more attributable to the demands of a situation than personal dispositions. Indeed, even well-adjusted, psychologically stable individuals are capable of shocking behavior under certain social pressures. The film however, prefers to attribute the malice and abuse to a few ‘crazy’ individuals in need of psychological help, bent on fulfilling sadistic desires that they harbour within dark places inside their twisted minds. A recurring theme in the film is the notion that humans are exceptional, and differ from other animals when it comes to violence: “Still think we’re higher on the evolutionary chain than monkeys?” asks an ex-con to prisoner 77 (played by Adrien Brody). “Yea, because we can still do something about it”, he replies, and looks off with an air of nobility. Though we do not wish to open this bag of philosophical worms here, we do want to point out that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Experiment</i> (2010) fails at addressing its inspiration’s true message. To make matters worse, at the end of the film we feel passionate about our moral strengths, as thought they are handed to us from divine sources, rather than feeling more compassionate towards the guards and prisoners who both suffered psychologically because of the despicable situation they found themselves in. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="line-height: 115%;">More on The Experiment (2010) <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0997152/">here</a></span> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More on Das Experiment (2001) <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/">here</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aaaaaahhhhhh the pineal gland -- considered the seat of the soul by the great French philosopher Descartes, (the one who famously stated “Cogito ergo sum" --I think, therefore I am). Known for its central location in the brain (almost in the middle, buried deep behind our forehead) and its lack of symmetry (to the naked eye there is only one of them) this cute little structure has long received the attention of philosophers and scientists interested in the mind. For Descartes, this was the window through which the ephemeral, intangible mind could interact with the body, and exert control or influence over the material world. This concept served a central purpose in Descartes’ Dualist (i.e., duality between mind and body) theories about consciousness. After all, without a portal to the physical world, how could the mind instruct the body to do all of the things it does? Alas, however, modern neurophysiology has humbled this tiny structure, discovering instead it is responsible for regulating hormones important for a host of behaviours, including the sleep-wake cycle and sexual development. Hormonal regulation and not a mind-material portal? Ho-hum.</span></div><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The relationship between the pineal gland and sexual development is exploited in the hysterical plot of From Beyond (1986), in which Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) discovers, via magnetic stimulation, that the pineal gland is literally a “third-eye”, allowing him to peer into a dimension of sexual awakening, Freudian metamorphoses, and florescent lights, apparently! Not that we --ahem-- mind! The film takes us on a multi-dimensional adventure, and though its explorations of sexuality and brain anatomy are questionable, the dialogue makes us squirt milk through our noses, the effects are bedazzling, and we find ourselves groping at our foreheads, wondering what depraved horrors that cute little structure is hiding from us.</span></div><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Yuzna, B. (Producer), Gordon, S. (Director). (1986). From Beyond [Motion picture]. United States: MGM Home Entertainment.</span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-20279933538587553502011-06-12T12:14:00.000-07:002011-06-12T12:15:19.704-07:00Expand your goretex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWvj8BxCqF3aOtLRfReY6w2vSucEbAVAPRGWSq9XcBg5wzwo0IEgvRDtXGGqeuFX0zpmR3NLQnJFucYOjH__aCRty5YFRsDzFIDG9Dd-BalYgV4Y_o9FgedAjVRoT8jsd7ZEn_NYIW7o/s1600/anthropophagus1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWvj8BxCqF3aOtLRfReY6w2vSucEbAVAPRGWSq9XcBg5wzwo0IEgvRDtXGGqeuFX0zpmR3NLQnJFucYOjH__aCRty5YFRsDzFIDG9Dd-BalYgV4Y_o9FgedAjVRoT8jsd7ZEn_NYIW7o/s400/anthropophagus1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Further to this criticism we have faced, the blog now includes a list of links to websites where we find movie recommendations (BoulevardMovies.com is particularly good for finding obscure movies to purchase on DVD)! Now you can see them all too (including the particularly delightful Italian romp, "Anthropophagus", previewed in the above photo).</span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-78623215122796260072011-05-22T19:19:00.000-07:002011-05-22T19:26:54.280-07:00They Live (1988)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xFJk6b9ZkHURpWmY6L0BXb1USvhiA0IKGTYR1cRoQ5Pizb4_ZvmuKmnCB_TY70PprH1_AQ4T4QA4f2t2ffzR5r5SNOWggVmLewModee0MsU43RAYntLZWnJRYld22RTyCuw97TWwQuY/s1600/They-Live_2-20080813-125142-medium.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9xFJk6b9ZkHURpWmY6L0BXb1USvhiA0IKGTYR1cRoQ5Pizb4_ZvmuKmnCB_TY70PprH1_AQ4T4QA4f2t2ffzR5r5SNOWggVmLewModee0MsU43RAYntLZWnJRYld22RTyCuw97TWwQuY/s320/They-Live_2-20080813-125142-medium.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">John Carpenter got something right when he conceived of They Live (1988), and the formula was simple: start with snarky, dark, commentary about class structure in American society, add some criticism of authority, and top it off with the on-screen antics of—who else?—</span><a href="http://www.a1sportscollectibles.com/images/rowdy-roddy-piper-vs-hulk-hogan-signed-photo.jpg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Rowdy Roddy Piper</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and you have a tantalizing foray into the public’s conscious—or should we say unconscious? After donning specialty sunglasses that only the outrageously stylish 80’s could have produced, our main character finds himself staring his oppressive adversaries in the face—and discovers that they are controlling the population with subliminal instructions to ‘obey’ and ‘consume’! A startling idea, to be sure</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eQTUg1jUFTetOt_SQ7V1nnw3YHwmw2umvZiZ8jDx4e1HXtFLZgU1v0tHlqtJt-E0-DZsu0YPVSN0YW5LCbzF-ZwArTxlZI-7rFmdj5P3G_8zvtE4dJ9NWdrijFPJ-dk_J7kLgpW5NIw/s1600/theylive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9eQTUg1jUFTetOt_SQ7V1nnw3YHwmw2umvZiZ8jDx4e1HXtFLZgU1v0tHlqtJt-E0-DZsu0YPVSN0YW5LCbzF-ZwArTxlZI-7rFmdj5P3G_8zvtE4dJ9NWdrijFPJ-dk_J7kLgpW5NIw/s320/theylive.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Though the central idea of subliminal mind control is not original, it does allow us to address the very important question of subliminal perception, and to ask the question ‘Just how much can the brain process outside of our awareness?’ Well, it’s clear that the brain can and does process a lot of information that we can’t necessarily consciously report (e.g. words and pictures). For instance, researchers will often present pictures or words for very short durations on a computer screen and measure whether people report seeing them. Interestingly, researchers can predict whether a person is likely to report seeing an image by examining what parts of the brain are active and to what extent (e.g., areas involved in sensory processing, as well as ‘higher-association’ areas that allow us to recognize complex shapes and word meanings are more active during conscious perception; see Dehaene et al, 2006).</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lT2gJ5BZdGUekpD7Zq0hZUH0fC47G2eIK24hET0-Xf-A9MBxp1MQDQvItqXLjtlnZnuQeTk5q8CHVJQkewAu6KDMQO-aOUK2Ybi83XRvEksT-M4vmiZ_DsYGnmDS9ZBF9ZEzX4YgdrE/s1600/RodTheyLive.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9lT2gJ5BZdGUekpD7Zq0hZUH0fC47G2eIK24hET0-Xf-A9MBxp1MQDQvItqXLjtlnZnuQeTk5q8CHVJQkewAu6KDMQO-aOUK2Ybi83XRvEksT-M4vmiZ_DsYGnmDS9ZBF9ZEzX4YgdrE/s320/RodTheyLive.jpg" width="277" /></a></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><u>References:</u></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Dehaene, S., et al (2006). Conscious, preconscious, and subliminal processing: A testable taxonomy. Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 5, 204-211.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; line-height: 14.0px; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Franco, LJ (Producer), Carpenter, J. (Director). (1988). They Live [Motion picture]. United States: Universal Studios.</span></span></span></div></span></span></span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-86250142507160362682011-01-15T18:16:00.000-08:002011-01-15T18:27:48.262-08:00Wasp Woman (1959) and Wasp Woman (1995)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRdHDqVERtneIj8SquYRPvs67x4LGsh1YvNRQJHMg5NHPGoG-ro4rb2aYnifAF9nEdqGQ__6KEnzGKSmEUoFam0ZNXNIFvRSerl1NgQOQ8KnG-484tld6BcK2vOgcoGDWBfDHQs9hUVE/s1600/the-wasp-woman-cover+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibRdHDqVERtneIj8SquYRPvs67x4LGsh1YvNRQJHMg5NHPGoG-ro4rb2aYnifAF9nEdqGQ__6KEnzGKSmEUoFam0ZNXNIFvRSerl1NgQOQ8KnG-484tld6BcK2vOgcoGDWBfDHQs9hUVE/s400/the-wasp-woman-cover+copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Janice Starlin had it all: money, a boyfriend, fame and recognition. As the founder of a popular cosmetics company she had all the attention and financial freedom she could ever dream of, until one day her sales began to drop. Much to her dismay, her stern and unforgiving stock holders reminded the Janice-of-yesterday that it is no longer ‘yesterday’; she had worn out her usefulness, growing visibly older, wrinkly, and generally unappealing to the public (“what kind of woman wants to buy cosmetics from a senior?” they boldly implied). Thinking herself immune to life’s natural course, Janice had single handedly depreciated the value of Starlin Cosmetics. Fewer and fewer clients remain interested in the products, because Janice was no longer appealing as an object of sexual interest. Oh, the perils of aging!</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Fortunately, a desperate Janice gets wind of the fringe science of Dr. Zinthrop, a near-madman looking to perfect an anti-aging serum derived from the jelly of queen wasps. (Wait! Have we confused ourselves here? Those are bees in the opening credits, right?). Despite the doctor’s orders Janice hastily injects herself with the serum, a move that transforms her not only into a thing of beauty, but a thing of bee-uty! (Har har.)</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Despite the remarkable similarities between the two movies (after 36 years we have developed our ideas about beauty, consumerism, and entomology!), these films provide campy carnage that is always hilarious and convincing (well, maybe not convincing...)! But we are troubled to find the persistent idea that youthfulness determines beauty. In recent decades, evolutionary psychologists (those that look for relationships between human behaviour today and the environmental and social constraints of our evolutionary ancestors) have begun identifying a host of potential cues that are related to people’s ratings of attractiveness across different cultures (see Fink & Penton-Voak, 2002 for an example). </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Though none of these are without controversy, some of the cues that have received the most attention include facial symmetry, averageness, and hormone markers. Specifically, it appears that people find faces more attractive when they are relatively symmetrical (i.e. there are no startling differences between the left and right side of a face); more surprisingly, people with </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">average</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> facial features (i.e. they do not appear odd with features that deviate largely from most people) are judged as more attractive. Further, and probably the most controversial, is the role of the face in signaling genetic health in males and females. For example, since testosterone levels contribute to the masculinity of a face, and since testosterone can suppress immune function, highly masculine faces signal to potential mates that even with a low-functioning immune system, they can deal with the viral and bacterial threats of the environment (i.e., because they have not died yet)—something very valuable to prospective mothers.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Though the things that people find attractive differ from person to person, and though the actual relationship between ratings of attractiveness and different physical characteristics is turning out to be highly complex, it is by no means necessary to moonlight as a giant man-eating (corset-wearing) insect in the pursuit of beauty!</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out Wasp Woman (1959) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wasp_Woman"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia</span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054462/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IMDb</span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5zAPCwCh40"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YouTube</span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out Wasp Woman (1995) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114896/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">IMDb</span></span></a></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span> </span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">References</span></u></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Fink, B., & Penton-Voak, I. (2002). Evolutionary psychology of facial attractiveness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 154-158.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Corman, R. (Producer), Corman, R., & Hill, J. (Directors). (1959). The Wasp Woman [Motion picture]. United States: The Filmgroup Inc</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Corman, R., & Elliot, M. (Producers), Wynorski, J., (Director). (1995). The Wasp Woman [Motion picture]. </span></span></span></div></span></span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-53026657290185279662010-11-28T18:21:00.000-08:002010-11-28T19:15:32.237-08:00The Brain that Wouldn’t Die (1962)<div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">“Let me die, let me die…” a desperate female voice pleads to the audience just before the opening credits role in this campy classic. Immediately we are asking ourselves “What in world could be bothering this young woman?” The answer is simple: her head (and brain), detached from her body after a horrible car accident, are kept alive in a tray with the tools of science! In </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Brain that Wouldn’t Die</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Carlton & Landberg, 1962) we watch as Dr. Bill Cortner passionately attempts to transplant human heads onto new bodies. As the confident doctor searches the city for a live (and, of course, supple) body to steal as a replacement, the young woman quickly becomes agitated by her new bodiless status, furious at the selfish doctor for reducing her experience to life in a tray. Her anger compels her to seek revenge for this great injustice, and she enlists the help of the forsaken creature locked in the laboratory closet, a half-human monstrosity from one of Dr. Cortner’s previous transplant failures.</span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The notion of a ‘brain in a vat’ often dominates philosophical debates about the nature of the self and the role of the brain in generating our emotions and feelings. Most psychological research focuses entirely on ‘mental processes’ and has largely ignored the role that the body plays in the way we think and act. However, Antonio Damasio and colleagues have argued that the body generates critical signals that shape emotional decisions (see Damasio, 1996). For example, damage to the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex (parts of the brain behind the forehead) causes otherwise normal people to develop profound impairments in social decision making and reasoning, and an inability to plan adequately for future social encounters. Though these patients retain their intelligence, their poor ability to reason in social situations devastates their personal lives. Damasio (1996) suggests that this brain region helps people 'link' the facts of a social situation (e.g. this is Tom, the person that told me to make all of those bad bets) with the emotional experiences associated with that situation (e.g. losing all that money made me feel bad), resulting in an inability to make a socially appropriate decision the next time that situation arises (e.g. “I don't think I will bet that way again, Tom”). Importantly, according to Damasio’s explanation, emotional experiences depend critically on our ability to experience bodily sensations -- Tom may have caused you to lose money, but a feeling of ‘badness’ is attributed to the loss only after your bodily experiences of changes in heart rate, feeling weak/nauseous, red in the face and so on have occurred. We may be quite unaware that these ‘linkages’ are occurring in any given situation. By linking these bodily outcomes with facts about the event itself, the brain (unconsciously) informs future social decisions based on past experiences. Without this ability, the quality of our decisions reduces dramatically. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So what would the quality of life be for a brain in a vat? Though the philosophical implications of such a question are perplexing, the empirical study of decision making after brain damage makes one thing clear: the emotions produced by the 'guts' are a necessary component of the way we think and make adaptive decisions. This relationship is unwittingly reflected in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Brain that Wouldn't Die</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Carlton & Landberg, 1962), as we are surprised by the young woman's anger, her decisions to talk to (literal) monsters, and her pleas for her own demise. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><u>References:</u></span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Carlton, R., & Landberg, M. (Producers), Green, J. (Director). (1962). The Brain that Wouldn't Die [Motion picture]. United States: American International Pictures.</span></span></span></div><div style="color: #333233; font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;">Damasio, AR. (1996). The somatic marker hypothesis and the possible functions of the prefrontal cortex. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 351, 1346.</span></span></span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-38327962748395573022010-10-24T17:40:00.000-07:002010-10-25T05:35:45.901-07:00House of Wax (2005)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovN1_bgIkgC-wj1pA-LlblgZxvGUiGFGzLQj7CZfmdsprzyjllKoS_MKDwUFrk5sComIiUG0lZ6BGdEZ5DCMEwbkM_tQzdPa2Um1TjCoHvyMAy8k91CaD1s4cicvf6wzyv20nKx1XsC0/s1600/houseofwax.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjovN1_bgIkgC-wj1pA-LlblgZxvGUiGFGzLQj7CZfmdsprzyjllKoS_MKDwUFrk5sComIiUG0lZ6BGdEZ5DCMEwbkM_tQzdPa2Um1TjCoHvyMAy8k91CaD1s4cicvf6wzyv20nKx1XsC0/s200/houseofwax.gif" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What could be more fun than driving to the biggest college football game of the year in your spiffy Dodge Charger, your group of friends piled in the back, geared up for some sophomoric gallivanting? Stopping on the roadside for a camp-night of teenage debauchery, of course! However, when your sweet ride blows a fan belt you have to run to the nearest town to find a replacement. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">House of Wax</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (Silver, Zemeckis, & Levin, 2005 -- yes, the one with Paris Hilton, we promise it's still worth watching!), two teens catch a lift with the local road kill collector to Ambrose, a small dusty, out-of-the-way place, searching for the fan belt that stands between them and the ‘big game’. Our protagonists peruse the seemingly deserted town looking for a local mechanic; they find instead a self-proclaimed famous “Wax Museum”. Curious figures stare back at the confused teens as they explore the unknown artful treasures. It is not long before they find out they have entered a staged town-of-wax, created and maintained by a deranged set of brothers as a shrine to their dead parents. The teens find themselves perpetually fooled by the very realistic yet mechanically-driven movements of cleverly placed decoys lining the streets and peering out of living room windows. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interestingly, the detection of living things (i.e. animacy detection) is a very hot topic in research laboratories world-wide. People are remarkably adept at perceiving human movement, even when there is no real human form present (huh?! see what we mean </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html">HERE</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">). Human attention is highly sensitive to the motion of living things—or things that </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">appear</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> alive (e.g., very life-like wax figures moving in a humanistic way, and even simple geometric shapes moving in certain patterns; see Morito et al., 2009). Under day-to-day circumstances, this mechanism for detecting living things affords us an evolutionary advantage, making us sensitive to potential threats lurking in the shadows. This skill ensures we are better equipped to identify a deranged maniac, stalking us with the intention of coating our bodies in hot wax. However, this sensitivity can also misfire, and we can be easily duped by even moderately lifelike imitations, as the teens in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">House of Wax</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> are horrified to discover.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Check out House of Wax (2005) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Wax_%282005_film%29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wikipedia</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>References:</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Silver, J., Zemecksi, R., & Levin, S. (Producers), Collet-Serra, J. (Director). (2005).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> House of Wax </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. United States & Australia: WanerBros. Pictures & Village Roadshow Pictures.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Morito, Y., Tanabe, H.C., Kochiyama, Y., & Sadato, N. (2009). Neural representation of animacy in the early visual areas: A functional MRI study. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Brain Research Bulletin, 79,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> 271-280.</span></span></div><br />
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</span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-32186861437601599892010-10-02T12:29:00.000-07:002010-10-02T12:30:06.841-07:00Red Mist (aka Freakdog) (2008)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EL8_-YtwqevJ0QSPrQEB-UcdGj2shLaALT_IprlK_14SC7w9nzpXRlbqdaHtkfP_r45ZQAU31Z4CvShbCtl_8C-mkvJ-xhWSx2UwuJbBsoDXeabug8wouDn-Xx_XaVbEEGHo3IjCqgk/s1600/red_mist_002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7EL8_-YtwqevJ0QSPrQEB-UcdGj2shLaALT_IprlK_14SC7w9nzpXRlbqdaHtkfP_r45ZQAU31Z4CvShbCtl_8C-mkvJ-xhWSx2UwuJbBsoDXeabug8wouDn-Xx_XaVbEEGHo3IjCqgk/s320/red_mist_002.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apparently,</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Breathnach, 2008) had little screen time following its release and, though it is a noble horror film, the fact that it didn't have the opportunity to spread its scientific message is probably a good thing. Putting a twist on revenge killing, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> traces the fleeting footsteps of a cast-out loner, rendered comatose by a group of moody medical students not wanting to get caught for stealing hospital party drugs. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">By possessing and using the bodies of hospital staff during 'out-of-body' experiences, he exacts an elaborate revenge on the gothic group of geniuses responsible for his tragic situation, all from the comfort and safety of his hospital bed. Some of his methods are clever (acid beer-funnel!), some are just brutal (ever get your head stuck in a car door?), but all of them are purposefully directed and hatefully motivated.</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Delightfully, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> tries very hard to ground its fantastical story in real brain science. Indeed, the killer's angular gyrus (a region in the parietal lobe) is almost the star of this film. And this region did receive a bit of celebrity attention a few years ago in the scientific community, when a patient undergoing neurosurgery had her angular gyrus electrically stimulated. Surprisingly, the patient reported a number of phenomena including sensations of “sinking into the bed”, and seeing herself “lying in the bed, from above” (Blake, Ortigue, Landis, & Seek, 2002). According to the authors of the study, the angular gyrus likely plays a role in integrating information about body parts and their relations in space; when this region is disturbed, or electrically stimulated, hallucinations of being ‘out of body’ may occur. The overdosed coma patient in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> shows electrical activity in this region and, of course, the poor doctors do not realize that this </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">really</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> means he can possess other peoples’ bodies to seek retribution. Though patients reporting out-of-body experiences rarely claim to experience possessing others, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> makes a charming imaginative leap -- but one that we would not like to see reach the popular consciousness. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Red Mist</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (2008) here:</span></span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Mist_%28film%29"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wikipedia</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Blake, O., Ortigue, S., Landis, T., & Seeck, M. (2002). Simulating illusory own-body perceptions. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nature, 419</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, 19, 269-270. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Breathnach, P. (Producer), Bosanquet, S. (Director). (2008).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Red Mist </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. Northern Ireland: Starz Entertainment.</span></span></span></div></span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-44792933596981326902010-09-29T18:47:00.000-07:002010-09-29T18:49:23.047-07:00Splice (2009)<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Splice</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (Hoban & del Toro 2009) is a simple film, a modern lesson in the complexities of creating new organisms with human DNA and fostering mutant children in hostile environments. In this classy piece of cinema, a biochemist power couple -- in danger of losing laboratory funding! -- create a new hybrid organism in hopes of a genetic breakthrough. Things take a turn for the worse when the “father” falls in lust with his mutant daughter and his wife catches him having sex with ‘it’. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This of course causes marital problems, until the mutant daughter spontaneously changes sex, kills the father and rapes the mother. Finally, the distraught mother - only survivor of her freak-child’s murderous rampage - deals with her pain by donating the resultant fetus to corporate science. Confusing? Yes. Freudian? Yes! Though I was shaking my head violently during this film, and my eyebrows were furrowed for so long that my forehead hurt, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Splice</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> does do us a service. </span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This confusing piece of misfired psychoanalysis hints towards a number of issues related to the role of biological sex in determining behavior, and capitalizes on the media’s fascination with the idea that testosterone, the hormone that assists in transforming a fetus into a male, is related to aggression. The spliced mutant human-fish-duck-bat child ‘Dren’ (affectionately named by her mother) demonstrates a number of radical changes when ‘she’ becomes male, some of which are actually supported by empirical evidence (see McIntyre & Edwards, 2009 for a review). For instance, after the infusion of testosterone, she demonstrates a strong desire for dominance (by killing every other male in sight) and she shows a clear reduction in empathy (violating her mother despite her pained cries).</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, as we take in all the Freudian phallic symbolism and lose track of the all the gene swapping, we must remind ourselves that the science of sex differences is not so clear-cut. We cannot forget the role of interactions between genes, behavior, and environment during human development. And most importantly, in Dren’s case, we cannot overlook the role of mixing human DNA with the DNA of slugs, kangaroos, armadillos, and overbearing mothers!</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Splice</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (2009) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splice_%28film%29">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1017460/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References:</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hoban, S., & del Toro, G. (Producers), Natali, V. (Director). (2009).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Splice </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[Motion picture]. Canada,France: Dark Castle Entertainment.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">McIntyre, MH., & Edwards, CP. (2009). The early development of gender differences. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annual Review of Anthropology, 38, </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">83-97.</span></span></span></div></span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-59574187139881894952010-09-14T16:48:00.000-07:002010-09-14T16:58:13.543-07:00Hatchet (2006)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The film </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hatchet </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Green, 2006) claims to be an “Old school American Horror”, and that’s exactly what you get. A group of strangers, lost after their boat tour turned sour in the Louisiana bayou, are relentlessly hunted by a giant, crazed (perhaps non-human), and deformed angry lunatic with, that’s right, a hatchet. The small group must try to overcome their differences as they navigate the dark and unknown woods. Unfortunately, each of them meets an ignoble end -- one-by-one their heads are torn off their necks, their arms are ripped off their torsos, and one of them gets a nice mouthful of frothy lunatic vomit. This movie follows rather gracefully in the footsteps of its predecessors like <i>Black Christmas</i>, and the <i>Friday the 13</i></span></span></span></span><i><span style="font: 8px 'Times New Roman'; letter-spacing: 0px;"><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup></span></i><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and <i>Halloween</i> franchises, among others.</span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The formula is decades old, and audiences never grow weary of watching scantily clad teenagers trip over themselves while running from a dark and brooding stalker. The popularity of these films teaches us something very simple about the psychology of the horror genera: some individuals are ‘sensation seekers’. These types of individuals tend to seek new experiences, are more likely to demonstrate uninhibited behaviours, and are more susceptible to boredom than others (see Zuckerman, 2006, for a review on sensation seeking and horror film watching!). Those that seek sensation may find that there is just enough novelty in watching people get ripped to shreds, just enough mystery in the darkness of the woods, just enough excitement in trying to resist and fight against the animal rage and strength of their hunters, and just enough make believe in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hatchet</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to keep their cortisol levels high, giving them the vicarious rush that they desire.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hatchet</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> here:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422401/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_%28film%29">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C33S_cqiJ8">YouTube</a></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Green, A (Producer), Green, A (Director). (2006).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Hatchet </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. United States: Anchor Bay Entertainment.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Zuckerman, M. (1996). </span></span><a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/emotion.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Sensation</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> seeking and the taste for vicarious horror. In J.B. Weaver III & R. Tomboroni (Eds.), </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Current Research on Audience Preferences and Reactions </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(pp 147-159). New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc. </span></span></span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-42490832160887300722010-09-01T13:19:00.000-07:002010-09-07T06:48:39.984-07:00Peeping Tom (1960)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJKtgMOlHodFqyCPlh4wcPRcWkKYGoXKVXsiuaFQjOWAy8kVLezqU-v3xO0w-X-yvKEnM2lIAk5ppbMt2RApWaEA7Hvnt1PbKBC1ImRwOA95JfDFVOr73yz7FtBmpB_Y13PZnQVWIE6gE/s1600/peepingtom2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJKtgMOlHodFqyCPlh4wcPRcWkKYGoXKVXsiuaFQjOWAy8kVLezqU-v3xO0w-X-yvKEnM2lIAk5ppbMt2RApWaEA7Hvnt1PbKBC1ImRwOA95JfDFVOr73yz7FtBmpB_Y13PZnQVWIE6gE/s400/peepingtom2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Released in Britain around the same time Hitchcock's </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Psycho</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peeping Tom</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Cohen, 1960) turned theaters of curious onlookers into voyeurs spying on a mild-mannered young man, Mark Lewis (Karlheinz Bohm), who is determined to create the ultimate documentary on human fear. Seducing women into quiet, secluded rooms, he turns a video camera on them as they are impaled by the cold impersonal blade at the end of his tripod. On film, he captures their contorted and terrified faces as he snuffs out their lives. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Though </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peeping Tom</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is arguably one of the earliest 'slashers', it is more complex than many films in this category, and has inspired film makers both within the horror genre and otherwise since its release. The motivation for Mr. Lewis's macabre film project comes from his own experiences as a child. The subject of his father's indecent and unethical experimentation on the effects of early fear on the nervous system, Lewis matures into a man obsessed with the concept. Indeed, Mr Lewis reveals that his father filmed his reactions to all sorts of psychologically traumatic stimuli, including forcing him to share a bed with an unwanted lizard. Mark's father was unquestionably more concerned with his career as a psychologist than with his duties as a father. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Interestingly, experiments of conditioned fear in humans were not unheard of in early studies by behaviourists. The most famous case, that of 'Little Albert', claimed to demonstrate that you could train a child to fear an animal (and animal-like things) by pairing presentations of the animal with startling, frightening noises (see Watson & Rayner, 1920). Further, it is often suggested that Little Albert's fear lasted into his adulthood. Whether this is true or not, we are pretty certain Albert did not venture into the world of snuff documentary film-making as an adult, though (as the video below might suggest) he probably was never quite comfortable around video cameras, men in suits, or white rats.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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<div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Peeping Tom</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (1960) here:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054167/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeping_Tom_%28film%29">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg2C382NvNw">YouTube</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Learn more about the 'Little Albert' Experiment here:</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Albert_experiment">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FKZAYt77ZM&NR=1">YouTube</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Cohen, N. (Producer), Powell, M. (Director). (1960).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Peeping Tom </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. United Kingdom: Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributers.</span></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Watson, J.B. and Rayner, R. (1920). </span></span><a href="http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Watson/emotion.htm"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Conditioned emotional reactions</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Journal of Experimental Psychology, 3, 1,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> pp. 1–14 </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</span>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-18899663264490624322010-08-29T17:09:00.000-07:002010-08-29T18:17:28.751-07:00The Human Centipede (2010)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GE20Xj2IxdeZGkpObHAN0niJIE4dWXDZqYkEqEA6tmGNVxYprE9N2Zu43zZBiNHbHIlNnYTTgRMRyLcGCxIRQew3DxgYj8QbTz-EEl1H9b0Bq18CTJ-FI9L0M-_V7mmwZ6y-3uVZwbU/s1600/The+Human+Centipede++0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GE20Xj2IxdeZGkpObHAN0niJIE4dWXDZqYkEqEA6tmGNVxYprE9N2Zu43zZBiNHbHIlNnYTTgRMRyLcGCxIRQew3DxgYj8QbTz-EEl1H9b0Bq18CTJ-FI9L0M-_V7mmwZ6y-3uVZwbU/s320/The+Human+Centipede++0.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br />
<div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The 2010 After Dark Toronto Horror Film Festival was brought to a close by a screening of the most talked-about horror film of the year. Sitting in the packed Bloor Cinema, a crowd of sick minds braced itself for a lesson in the disgusting, a tutorial on the depraved. Choking on our own mental vomit, festering in our own gut wrenching shock, those of us lucky enough to have a seat in the historic sold-out theater witnessed </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Human Centipede</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Six & Six, 2010). In this lovely Dutch film, we follow three hapless tourists as they are kidnapped by a deranged German surgeon who is determined to create the world's first siamese triplet. By surgically connecting the helpless victims, mouth to anus, and training them to perform depraved acts -- including fetching his morning newspaper from the front lawn -- the surgeon proves his creative genius and relishes in his over-nourished vanity. Enough said. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdEMybb_Hrrj4REbhARMARN7yPylSbMXyNjHAg2JU8Ecs_Ls_TioazZWMXNMYOT8AaPvhN63ALfTgy1PJhDvmPLrSKA7VCu4MNFjEflfwxvQLo61xqzndsfT32WGu53cisfGoDiDNK7s/s1600/human-centipede-first-sequence.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmdEMybb_Hrrj4REbhARMARN7yPylSbMXyNjHAg2JU8Ecs_Ls_TioazZWMXNMYOT8AaPvhN63ALfTgy1PJhDvmPLrSKA7VCu4MNFjEflfwxvQLo61xqzndsfT32WGu53cisfGoDiDNK7s/s320/human-centipede-first-sequence.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The hype generated by this film is proportionate to its ability to shock and disgust. The thought of the deranged doctor's siamesse triplet, for very primal and visceral reasons, is excruciating torture for anyone who has an ounce of dignity and a pound of self preservation. As you might be able to guess, this movie capitalizes on at least one very basic aversion. Indeed, the aversion to human feces appears to develop quite readily in infancy. Brain structures such as the insula (a cortical region tucked deep within the temporal lobe; see Calder et al., 2000) seem to be critical for interpreting and experiencing feelings of disgust in response to social signals -- for example, the contorted face of the 'second-position' as she gulps a big load of ---). In </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Human Centipede</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> there is no shortage of opportunities to exercise the insula's response to these social signals of disgust, and, quite frankly, we feel that this film could serve as the basis for a neuropsychological test designed to probe this brain region's activity. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimsyCqh9whiloxFP1dpacogcIJzITlo01_StmZvU9eJqL1fMO-CfKL7FAwGE1SUTJ4diWOGyV9OajzuC-QVGJSmMS9-z4rUzsLV8DzUSmcMBLIciRDDXHptu5g5FwIPgh8y6QfTO7RqI/s1600/the-human-centipede-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgimsyCqh9whiloxFP1dpacogcIJzITlo01_StmZvU9eJqL1fMO-CfKL7FAwGE1SUTJ4diWOGyV9OajzuC-QVGJSmMS9-z4rUzsLV8DzUSmcMBLIciRDDXHptu5g5FwIPgh8y6QfTO7RqI/s320/the-human-centipede-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Human Centipede</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1467304/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Centipede_%28First_Sequence%29">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wmTv2nqTHo">YouTube</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Calder, AJ., Keane, J., Manes, F., Antoun, N., & Young, AW. (2000). Impaired recognition and experience of disgust following brain injury. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nature Neurosceince, 3</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, 11, 1077-1078.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Six, T., & Six, I. (Producers), Six, T. (Director). (2010).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> The Huamn Centipede </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. Netherlands: IFC Films.</span></span></span></div><br />
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</span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-87765294966551769662010-08-25T10:07:00.000-07:002010-09-07T06:51:49.932-07:00I Spit On Your Grave – Day of the Woman (1978) / I Spit On Your Grave - Unrated (2010)<div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDh464wzzV_Q2QcIZPi0udxLqrB0EN2IxhvFMFiyWLrJH3TulH3_19xTobctqpqX1D7MsDiGpeUr-XLOm14pLp92ilbSepLZSzNVODMZdi6KIhPwtPvBqIa96qVafqcK7-fQAi_-EbfQ/s1600/2006-06-16_i_spit_on_your_grave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDh464wzzV_Q2QcIZPi0udxLqrB0EN2IxhvFMFiyWLrJH3TulH3_19xTobctqpqX1D7MsDiGpeUr-XLOm14pLp92ilbSepLZSzNVODMZdi6KIhPwtPvBqIa96qVafqcK7-fQAi_-EbfQ/s200/2006-06-16_i_spit_on_your_grave.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The editors had the opportunity to take in some festival horror at the 2010 Toronto After Dark Film Festival. One of this year's highlights was the remake of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I Spit on Your Grave </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Zarchi & Zbeda, 1978; Hansen & Hertzberg, 2010). Falling under the 'rape and revenge' sub-genre of exploitation/horror, both versions of this controversial film test the viewer's endurance for brutal and malicious violence, each beginning with a detailed and horrific rape scene that lasts no less than 40 minutes. But there are rewards for those that make it through the sordid ensemble of painful and nightmarish images, as we watch our heroine (Sarah Butler reprising Camille Keaton's original role as Jennifer Hills) exact a calculated and immensely satisfying revenge against her assailants. </span></span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whether she is doling out pampering facials with bubbling lye, moisturizing her assailant's eyes with fish guts, or hosting dinner parties with the guests’ own genitals as the main course, we are left hauntingly satisfied with our protagonist’s vicious and merciless revenge. But how could such a thing be satisfying? This is a controversial film for obvious reasons, but our shared experience as sympathizers with the victim shows us something bizarre about human evolution. Experimentally, it has been shown that individuals will punish defectors in a group, a demonstration of what has been called 'altruistic punishment'. In such studies, group members will readily punish cheats, defectors, and tyrants at a great cost to themselves, though they receive no immediate personal benefit (usually these studies involve money or food; see Fehr & Gachter, 2002). That is, revenge is prevalent in human society. In social groups, the presence of altruistic punishers provides strong incentive for even the most villainous to cooperate with the group. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">We are not trying to suggest that the severity of the plot of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I Spit On Your Grave</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> reflects in any way the trivialities of human behavioural experiments in economics, but our satisfaction at the carefully exacted revenge in the film does hint at a very powerful human tendency: the tendency to desire and seek revenge, even at cost to oneself. After watching </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I Spit On Your Grave,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> we can leave with a feeling that justice has been served, knowing that the horrid acts of the maniacal perpetrators have been adequately countered with a punishment that tastes a bit like rotting rat carcass. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxximaS1tKkXFFETn9iF-phCE_0wtJVkyjUEXUAgaqEsNQpJ7NOSzsQwOlHHb3Lp88LlNET2_rqBG-wcsxCm7FyOdZeop5Vrd3xJUSKSGnKXe9HUf_YNoKM92RsxEAOiW4wzvvXEXw3M/s1600/i+spit+on+your+grave+bloody+tub.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUxximaS1tKkXFFETn9iF-phCE_0wtJVkyjUEXUAgaqEsNQpJ7NOSzsQwOlHHb3Lp88LlNET2_rqBG-wcsxCm7FyOdZeop5Vrd3xJUSKSGnKXe9HUf_YNoKM92RsxEAOiW4wzvvXEXw3M/s320/i+spit+on+your+grave+bloody+tub.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I Spit On Your Grave - Day of the Woman</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (1978) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077713/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKCys3sd8Bw">YouTube</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I Spit On your Grave</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (2010) here:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242432/fullcredits#cast">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Spit_on_Your_Grave_%28film%29">Wikipedia</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zU3U-9B3fE">YouTube</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Feher, E. & Gachter, S. (2002). Altruistic punishment in humans. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nature, 415</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, 10, 137-140.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Hansem, L., & Hertzberg, P. (Producers). Monroe, SR. (Director). (2010). </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I Spit On Your Grave</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> [Motion picture]. USA: Anchor Bay Entertainment. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Zarchi, M., & Zbeda, J. (Producers), Zarchi, M. (Director). (1978).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> I Spit On Your Grave</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> [Motion picture]. Canada: Cinemagic.</span></span></span></div><br />
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</span></span></span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-26955519011843189052010-08-25T09:57:00.000-07:002010-08-25T09:57:11.704-07:00Cold Prey (2006) & Ice Spiders (2007)<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is something terrifying about the remoteness of an uninhabited mountain range, where human tracks are scarce and well off the cell phone coverage maps. Yet, they remain inevitably attractive locales to vacationing extreme snowboarders, and of course, covert military science agencies. This is obviously why the team behind </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cold Prey</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Sundland & Lyngner, 2006) selected the Jotunheimen mountain region in south Norway as the setting of their blood feast, in which we follow a group of young snowboarders in pursuit of fresh powder and the ultimate rush. However, the thrill hunters become the hunted as they are pursued and killed one by one by a madman, somehow surviving in the secluded mountains, in a revenge-fueled rage. Here, we are faced with the classic terrors of a raging madman, hell-bent on mercilessly ripping apart the nubile bodies of our helpless protagonists. This award-winning film is an excellent, though rather humourless, example of the power of a formulaic slasher to excite our spines and raise our neck-hairs.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The mystery and terror of secluded mountain regions, too, must have been the motivation for the setting of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ice Spiders</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (Colichman</span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">et al., 2007), in which a military experiment in genetic mutation goes awry and a group of hapless snowboarders are faced with monstrous -- and colourful! -- computer-generated spiders hunting and eating the flesh of unsuspecting vacationers. A battle with the spiders is ‘heroically’ championed by a washed-up skier who shows everybody, especially the rigid scientists, that sometimes you just have to think with your guts and ignore all that is reasonable and logical. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In addition to the shared setting, these two films both conjure strong emotions in their viewers, but for different reasons. To understand how a film is capable of inducing such emotions, we must visit the scheme by Russell (1980) (provided below), which maps human emotions in two dimensions using a continuum of arousal (aroused --> not aroused) and pleasantness (pleasant --> unpleasant) to define various emotional states.</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Cold Prey </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is a smart, effective, slasher, able to thrill and terrorize the viewer. The music, pace, and atmosphere are all arousing enough, and combined with ruthless slaughter, they are unpleasant enough to actually induce fear. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ice Spiders</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, on the other hand, is hardly arousing but it is chock-full of unpleasant stimulation -- all the gore is in broad daylight, the dialogue seems like it was written by a kid at bible camp, and the spiders look terrible, but not in the intended sense. This combination makes the viewer disgusted with themselves at best for continuing to watch, and most definitely saddened by the antics unfolding. These two films are certainly not alone in their abilities to induce a change in the emotional state of the viewer, but together they illustrate the importance of coordinating the arousing stimulation in creating an effective horrific experience.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 15.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cold Prey</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at: </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808276/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_Prey">Wikipedia</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU-IMPPbj-Y">YouTube</a></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out <i>Ice Spiders</i> at:</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840304/">IMDb</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Spiders">Wikipedia</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvYCtxAqgN4">YouTube</a></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Colichman, P., Hess, A., Hess, S., Jarchow, SP., & Rosenthal, JR. (Producers), & Takacs, T. (Director). (2007). </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Ice Spiders </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Motion picture]. USA: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Russell, JA. (1980). A circumplex model of affect. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 39,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> 1161-1178. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Sundland, M., & Lyngner, M. (Producers), Uthaug, R. (Director). (2006).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Cold Prey</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> [Motion picture]. Norway: SF Norge AS.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></div>Heath and Nicolehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11683036430128725632noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2812641726720299286.post-72295757642750343972010-08-24T21:03:00.000-07:002010-08-24T21:03:39.137-07:00The Brain Machine (aka Grey Matter) (1977)<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-cio6lsfXanKAAVxX3ob1YyufmjXa8178xNky9urt2sZmNqP_Hdnayv1tHHM5K94aDVHiq-D1P-vB2S5lzxCmcALyxHMCa6SfA0D4E7Px17MYV-nVFpdlvYUdhwlhBN8p-H6MosAkpA/s1600/brainmachine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-cio6lsfXanKAAVxX3ob1YyufmjXa8178xNky9urt2sZmNqP_Hdnayv1tHHM5K94aDVHiq-D1P-vB2S5lzxCmcALyxHMCa6SfA0D4E7Px17MYV-nVFpdlvYUdhwlhBN8p-H6MosAkpA/s320/brainmachine.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Committed to a scientific experiment of a mysterious purpose and subjected to strange free-association psychological tests, four strangers are haunted as they slowly rediscover their heinous pasts. Horrific memories return to each of the unsuspecting volunteers as they lie in electrical impulse-sending devices that look shockingly and threateningly like reclining lawn chairs. The climax of the film sees the hapless research subjects surrounded by walls caked with horrid wallpaper that are slowly and assuredly closing in as a group of military personal hijack a scientist's experiment with a new top-secret machine that extracts the 'truth' from peoples' brains. The four strangers, having had their terrible pasts unveiled, kill themselves and each other as the military ruthlessly continues to probe their brains, ignoring the merciful pleas of the unsuspecting and benevolent scientist. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPlDUjMt8aAWYBS-VpWh_MaCFiIKyC5j2l8kPg1XdUPAZNg7iwH3mAPraa6E5Q_K3_OYWlEN_EwI1zVFCnGkejjAukw_sg28Fi29NDXed-j7VePq5X2S4QU0ei0uukdY2aDdyyFSg1ijI/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-08-24+at+11.58.07+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPlDUjMt8aAWYBS-VpWh_MaCFiIKyC5j2l8kPg1XdUPAZNg7iwH3mAPraa6E5Q_K3_OYWlEN_EwI1zVFCnGkejjAukw_sg28Fi29NDXed-j7VePq5X2S4QU0ei0uukdY2aDdyyFSg1ijI/s320/Screen+shot+2010-08-24+at+11.58.07+PM.png" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Despite the TV-style acting, the overuse of strange and apparently meaningless establishing shots, and the fact that the boom mic makes a special guest appearance in a number of scenes, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Brain Machine </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(Burnham, 1977) has a lot to offer. Somewhere under the inexplicable dialogue, the confusing cuts between seemingly unrelated scenes, and the fact that, as a viewer, we really have no idea what the original purpose of the experiment was, there is a gem of an idea here that is surprisingly precocious. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsgFOm93dDnpQXPMnozk3GB1lQXFpf-WMchUl0FlSiP7PN3VS9civyApoVkyVT0JCWRsvXnopWPpLX-aMRFk0nYqmUO5hKWGeb22OWtYFNK1SqsXoHccLfJ8n3U3gEQEFKloSBXYaOEY/s1600/Screen+shot+2010-08-25+at+12.01.56+AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCsgFOm93dDnpQXPMnozk3GB1lQXFpf-WMchUl0FlSiP7PN3VS9civyApoVkyVT0JCWRsvXnopWPpLX-aMRFk0nYqmUO5hKWGeb22OWtYFNK1SqsXoHccLfJ8n3U3gEQEFKloSBXYaOEY/s320/Screen+shot+2010-08-25+at+12.01.56+AM.png" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What if you could tell the truth by the activity of a person's brain? This idea has broken out of the realm of science fiction in recent years; ‘brain reading’ experiments have been underway for some time. Some scientists have used advancements in electroencephalography (EEG) to probe whether individuals possess guilty knowledge (e.g. can you tell whether a defendant has seen a murder weapon before by measuring EEG?; e.g. see Farwell & Donchin, 1991). Functional magnetic resonance imaging has also been used for ‘mind reading’. By showing people a number of images of objects and measuring brain activity throughout, the patterns of activity observed have then been used to </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">predict</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> which object a person is thinking of when none is present on the screen (see Kay et al., 2008). Though some scientists are claiming these tests are highly accurate, the peer-reviewing academic jury is still out. Regardless, with this type of truth-from-brainwave research currently underway, we are left wondering whether </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Brain Machine</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> stands as a prophecy warning us of a government's resolve to control its citizens by forcing the truth, or simply a B-rated sci-fi flick that gives us the opportunity to watch the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dukes of Hazard's</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Rosco Purvis Coltrane (i.e. James Best) in a starring role. Either way, even though you might want to keep it a secret, we recommend grabbing a comfortable, electricity-free lawn-chair, sitting back , and allowing </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Brain Machine</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to challenge you to discover the truth -- about its value!</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Check out The Brain Machine (1977) at:</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075781/">IMDb</a></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT0Dh1jNO-w">YouTube</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Learn more about 'mind reading' at:</span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.brainwavescience.com/">www.brainwavescience.com</a></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><u>References</u></span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Burnham, SC. (Producers),Houck Jr., JN. (Director). (1977).</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> The Brain Machine</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> [Motion picture]. USA: Howco Productions Inc.. </span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Farwell, LA., & Donchin, E. (1991). The truth will out: Interrogative polygraphy (“Lie Detection”) with even-related brain potentials. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Psychophysiology, 28</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">, 5, 531-547.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 13.0px Verdana; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 13.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Kay, K.N., Naselaris, T., Prenger, R.J., & Gallant, J.L. (2008). Identifying natural images from human brain activity. Nature, 452, 352-355.</span></span></span></div></span><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Passionate, sincere, and selfless Dr. Warren Chapin has spent his life trying to understand one of the oldest, most prominent, and most mysterious of human emotions: Fear. Working from his lab, meticulously experimenting on various mammals, perpetually failing to identify the source of this bizarre and ubiquitous phenomenon, Dr. Chapin all but gives up his pursuit. Then one day he discovers that violent screaming is instrumental in releasing a person's 'fear tensions', and concludes that the answer to his question lies in a simple experiment: What happens when a person cannot scream? The answer? Well, potentially, death. More precisely, the parasitic slug/centipede-like organism (i.e., the ‘tingler’) that lives undetected at the base of the human spine grows when its host is aroused. This organism is paralyzed by the frightened screams of the person it inhabits. If a person is unable to scream, the tingler grows out of control and terror ensues. That is obvious.</span></span></span></div><div style="font: 12px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
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