Impossible Experiments

What psychology experiment would you love to carry out if neither ethics nor practical reality stood in your way? For the August issue of Psychology Today, I asked several PT bloggers this question and printed four responses. Here's a more complete roundup of their insights. Musical StorksI would collect all newborn babies and randomly reassign them to new parents. I'm confident that we will confirm the 50-0-50 rule: Adult personality is roughly 50% genetic, 0% how they are raised by their parents, and 50% socialization outside the family by peers and friends. I think we will discover that within a broad range, it doesn't really matter how parents raise their children. Parents are enormously important for children, not because they raise them, but because they give them their genes.-Satoshi Kanazawa (The Scientific... [read full story]