In Washington, Bush administration officials have played down South Korea's enrichment experiment, apparently fearing that North Korea will take advantage of it.
Executives frequently resist easy opportunities to cost-effectively experiment because they fear challenges to their hard-won professional intuitions and authority.
But a woman is far less likely to have her manuscript accepted (as this revealing experiment finds), publishers fear that men won't read a book written by a woman (despite evidence to the contrary), and she will consider publishing under a male pen-name.
In addition to the medical redundancy of He's experiment, experts also fear that his results might in fact perpetuate stigma against people with HIV, in a country where people already face severe consequences if others discover their HIV status.
Most of the experiments measured fear toward novel animals and included a self-report measure of fear, and the vast majority of them (i.e., 88.9%) has shown that self-reported fear can be increased when children are provided with threatening information about a stimulus or situation.
It turns out that Mark's pathology is related to his dominating father, a psychologist who subjected his son to experiments in fear from an early age.
For the first time ever, a government advisory board is asking scientific journals not to publish details of certain biomedical experiments, for fear that the information could be used by terrorists to create deadly viruses and touch off epidemics.
Many officials dare not engage in bold local experiments for fear of offending someone powerful.That matters because reform ultimately requires an end to the dire system of hukou, or household registration, which relegates some 300m people who have migrated to cities from the countryside to second-class status and hampers their ability to become empowered consumers.
Dr. Jonathan Crane uses his position as professor of psychology at Gotham University and as head psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum to conduct his experiments into fear (this element would later appear in Batman Begins).
But they also encourage children to play, and to try the kind of social experimenting that preschool experts fear is getting squeezed out of some programs.
