According to Eddie Izzard, if you kill someone, that’s murder and you go to jail for the rest of your life. If you kill ten people, you’re sent to Texas where the officials hit you with a brick on the head. Kill twenty people, and the judge will throw you into a mental hospital where [...]... Nordgren, L., & Morris McDonnell, M. (2010) The Scope-Severity Paradox: Why Doing Mor
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September 15, 2010
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May 28, 2010
Three Christs
In the 1950s, three delusional Messiahs were gathered to live together in the same mental hospital. This is one of the most remarkable experiments in the history of psychology and I've written about it in an article for Slate.I've had this tale told to me many times, but in a hazy way almost like a myth. I've been asked it as a question ("what would happen if three delusional Christs met each oth
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