From: NPR
What David Lynch And Tylenol Can Tell You About The Brain
April 22, 2013
NPR:
Even for a hardcore David Lynch fan, the idea that a film of his would be used to weird people out in a psychology experiment is a tad weird.
But it gets much stranger than that — fast.
Imagine the experiment involved testing whether Tylenol could help people overcome the angst triggered by a four-minute dose of Lynch. A related experiment tested Tylenol’s effect on people asked to write about what happens to their bodies after they die.
At the University of British Columbia, psychologists went both places.
Their findings: Tylenol may relieve more than physical pain; it may just dull existential aches, too. The results were by the journal Psychological Science.
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