Sentence examples for mental experiments from inspiring English sources

In one letter, dated Nov. 21, Mr. El-Hage addressed his wife as if she were a stranger, and said he was in "an institution that kidnaps foreign students and makes physical and mental experiments on them".

Actually, these backcasting exercises are mental experiments, which employ quite different approach in comparison with traditional research methods.

We are unsure of the origins of these errors in counting, but Jevons characterized it as "an instance of that inevitable bias in mental experiments against which it is impossible to take complete precautions".

Here's a little mental experiment.

By John Cassidy April 24, 2013 Here's a little mental experiment.

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Consider the following mental experiment, which, I believe, helps us unveil a deeper motive.

"This little mental experiment remade my relationship to the world," Gowin said, "and I realized that my Virginia was as strange as if I had landed in New Guinea..

These findings held true for both mental disorders (Experiments 1 and 2) and everyday behaviors (Experiments 4 and 5), and yielded downstream consequences for the perceived efficacy of disorder treatments (Experiment 3).

Mental rotation experiments of the original Shepard & Metzler (1971) design (or variants of it), are almost unique amongst imagery experiments in that they depend neither on verbal reports from the subjects, nor on explicit verbal instructions to use imagery in performing the experimental task.

Figure 3 Examples of irregular polygons used in mental rotation experiments by Cooper (1975, 1976).