• Question: Whats the best experiment you have ever done? :)

    Asked by mazzie10 to Damien, Rachael, Simon, Suzi, Tim on 16 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Suzi Gage

      Suzi Gage answered on 14 Jun 2011:

      Hi @mazzie10
      Ooh this is a tough question.
      I did a really cool experiment where we tried to find out whether ‘beer goggles’ really exist – so whether people think others are more attractive when they’re drunk!
      This meant getting a lot of the undergraduate students in to our lab, giving them vodka, and then getting them to rate the attractiveness of pictures of faces and pictures of landscape scenes. Great fun to run!

      Thanks for your question 🙂

    • Photo: Damien Hall

      Damien Hall answered on 16 Jun 2011:

      I think maybe the most interesting thing I have ever discovered was when I (and the research team I was in) found evidence that your attitude about where you’re from does affect your accent! This was something that people suspected was true before, but there wasn’t any scientific evidence. We were working on the English-Scottish border, and we found, particularly for Scottish people, that if you feel that being Scottish is very important to you, you probably do have more of a Scottish accent than someone who is also Scottish but doesn’t really care about it.

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