and whether real or on a computer screen, participants are told they can stab the doll with as many real or virtual pins as they want. Before the Voodoo Doll Task, researchers had cooked up ...

Each subject (total of 214) was provided a voodoo doll that represented his or her ... a button when a target square turned red on the computer screen, with the winner being the one who pressed ...

Then he sent each volunteer home with something unusual: a voodoo doll and 51 pins ... So they had the couples play a computer game in which the winner got to blast his or her spouse with ...

Expert: Magic mojo method not superstition so much as finding a way to cope. March 4, 2010 — -- After a long stretch of unemployment in 2009, Mindy, an office manager, used a voodoo doll to ...

While it would be easy to let your resentment fester and possibly affect your work performance, scientists have a better solution: Get a voodoo doll. "We found a simple and harmless symbolic act ...