Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits
sciencehabit writes "In a pub on the campus of London South Bank University, you may think you're drinking an ice cold brew, but don't be too sure. A fake pub with barstools, beer pumps, and all the trappings of a real one was built on the university for psychologists to better understand how and why we drink. Hidden cameras and a cheerful staff — who are undercover psychology students — help analyze behavior when customers, or test subjects, pay a visit."
Basically, a pub.
Task Mangler
Fake-y Bubbles
In your glass
Make ya wanna
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Burma Shave
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
The University of Washington in Seattle has (or had) one of these, called the B.A.R. Lab (Behavorial Alcohol Research). Seems like a trend. Get a bar built in your school and call it research! HA!
My uni had a pub on it's grounds. I assumed it was fairly normal.
Great! Now the students will have some training for the jobs they'll end up in anyway after graduating with a psych degree.
It is a very good thing they are not charging for the drinks, I can't imagine the horror show resulting when the pub patrons find out they are buying watered down drinks.
Even after I RTFA, I still am not sure how they are concealing the info that there is little to no alcohol in the free drinks. I know if I was presented a free pub, I would wonder what the catch was, thus altering my behavior and skewing the data.
Maybe just my own suspicious and skeptical nature is the cause for my questioning this. :-)
Or I missed that part of TFA.
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Basically students build a pub on the university grounds. Did they get a licence for it or were they trading illegally?
Did you read the article or are you commenting ignorantly? Hint: The article specifically answers that.
a 'pub' where they rub ethanol around the glass to convince the patron there is a real drink they are served.. where you may or may not get any alcohol in the drink you ordered... where patrons are metered to make sure they dont drink over their legal driving limit... a place the customers dont even know they may be part of an experiment, and on top of that they wont even play the soccer game on the tv. Sounds like a violation of alcohol ordinances and pub regulations to me. I really am glad i dont go there. we always sought out the places with the most potent drinks when we were bar hopping.
Ditto. Run by the university too. So far as I know there were no psych experiments going on but then again Madison has a fairly active psych department so who knows ;-)
As for this study... why people drink? All for their own reasons... but mostly because they can.
I could write a fairly in depth thesis on the subject just based on my past 20 years of spending ~5 nights a week in a bar (the last 2 of which without alcohol) but I don't feel I would be contributing anything new to the subject (and neither will these people)
That said, how much is a pint of hard cider?
Without IRB consent forms signed by people who are fully informed, this is an ethical violation and a violation of research study protocols.
But, hey, let's just throw some drones and post the vids of their "behavioural studies" onto the Internet, shall we?
Who cares if it violates the Magna Carta?
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The clue was "cheerful staff" :-/
London South Bank University, you may think you're drinking an ice cold brew
The British don't drink their beer ice cold.
Indeed! Handing a placebo instead of real alcohol!
I wonder if they studied the fake fights that occurred when the subjects moved from fake beer to fake whiskey?
You are welcome on my lawn.
I remember going to the pub on a University of California school...
They even served a combo called the "Irishman's lunch" - a Quart of beer and Potato Skins. I am sure that is no longer "PC", and I am not even sure if the UC system has gone "dry" or not, but, back in the day it was the best thing, even above "toastada Tuesday".
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
And one thing they get on right away is alcohol.
Get ready for heavy fines, it's within the gov't right to do this.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Yeah, yeah, but your psychologists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should.
What if it starts breeding? Have they learned nothing from the Fake Irish Pub plague that has ravaged the world?
We used to have problems with first-year psych students coming to Rocky Horror Picture Show to do some kind of paper or something. They were easy to spot, always showing up in September or October, generally completely oblivious to what goes on. We'd usually hold virgin auctions those nights, auctioning them (as RHPS virgins) to regulars to mess with 'em the whole night.
So "creepy and unethical" can go both ways (given the RHPS reference, pun-intended)
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
some drink to remember, some drink to forget.
in that order.
Oh, captain! Please bring me my wine.
(Okay, probably not the reference that was being made, but that is what came to mind.)
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It's great that those students are getting on the job training in real world skills.
What's the difference with normal batmen/barmaids, which are usually already psych students in the first place?
"...and a cheerful staff"
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Now, repeat with a whore house. How do the psychology students look?
It's a fairly normal thing. My university (University of Oslo, 27'000 students and 7'000 staff, so fairly big) has (at least on the main campus) 3 student ran pubs (all fully legal) + 1 pubs and one restaurant serving beer ran by the university's food services + unknown number of student societies, of which many have a stash of alcohol and a box to put money in if you take a beer from this stash.
Other universities I've been to in Norway are have similar arrangements. The cafeterias at CERN serve beer and wine until ~midnight (and during lunch, which is very french...). Stanford uni has a pub on its grounds.
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I'm guessing the security camera is so you can't piss in the alley.
psychologists will frown upon any research where the subjects do not know they are part of a research project..
Why? I'd have thought the opposite in cases like this, because if the subjects were aware they could modify thier behaviour.
Actually, there are loads of psychological research done on unaware subjects. Just a random example : an architect watching how people negotiate a busy hotel lobby, so he can design better hotel lobbies in future.
... this sparks the question: Do the rats know you created the maze, and just go for the cheese to fool you?
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How ironic! A bartender who is actually a psychologist ... what're the odds ?
Many headlines these days are poorly written, with word forms that can be hard to parse before you read the associated article.
Ok, I'll give it a shot. "Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits"
What is the news here?
Fake studies about pubs are drinking all these habits.
The fake pub is studying how people drink habits.
I order you to fake some pub studies that drink habits.
This is about the drinking habits of fake pub studies.
And so on.
Add your own parsing, and for each one you add, enjoy another habitual fake drink in the studying pub.