To celebrate the 100th email issue of its research digest, the British Psychological Society has asked leading psychologists and bloggers to write a few paragraphs about the most important psychology experiment that's never been done.
Contributors include Susan Blackmore, Richard Gregory, Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks and ScienceBlogs' own Chris Chatham. The contributions are being published at the BPS Research Digest blog over the next few weeks.
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