Although most behavior experiments are conducted in the lab, it’s nice to be reminded occasionally that it’s possible to conduct experiments in the human’s natural environment…such as a nightclub.
Italian scientists studied responses to requests for a cigarette at three nightclubs in central Italy.
That scientists would study Italian’s smoking behaviors comes as no surprise to anyone who has been reading semantics recently. It seems that half the example sentences in the papers I read involve some variation on “all Italians smoke.”
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