Worm Runner's Digest

Worm Runner's Digest

If you've always thought psychological biologists looked like this:
 

And wrote articles as engaging as this:

 

Then I'd like to introduce you to the Worm Runner's Digest, edited by James V. McConnell. 

If you subscribed to the Journal of Biological Psychology, as K-State did from 1967-1979, the you too could have chortled over articles from the Worm Runner's Digest, which was bound upside down to the back of the Journal of Biological Psychology.  Trippy.

You may scoff, but permit me to share some of my favorite articles just from 1975-1976:

Brewster and Wilson, "Learned Helplessness in Pet Rocks (Roccus pettus) (December 1976)
Olson and Hirsch, "Effects of Social Contact on Behavioral Quotient of Coffeepots" (December 1976)
Griffin, "Taste-Aversion Learning in Dead Rats: A Note on Proper Control Procedures" (December 1975).

One can only hope that biological psychologists today have a similar outlet for their humor.  And that flatworms have developed evasive maneuvers.

If you've always thought psychological biologists looked like this:
 

And wrote articles as engaging as this:

 

Then I'd like to introduce you to the Worm Runner's Digest, edited by James V. McConnell. 

If you subscribed to the Journal of Biological Psychology, as K-State did from 1967-1979, the you too could have chortled over articles from the Worm Runner's Digest, which was bound upside down to the back of the Journal of Biological Psychology.  Trippy.

You may scoff, but permit me to share some of my favorite articles just from 1975-1976:

Brewster and Wilson, "Learned Helplessness in Pet Rocks (Roccus pettus) (December 1976)
Olson and Hirsch, "Effects of Social Contact on Behavioral Quotient of Coffeepots" (December 1976)
Griffin, "Taste-Aversion Learning in Dead Rats: A Note on Proper Control Procedures" (December 1975).

One can only hope that biological psychologists today have a similar outlet for their humor.  And that flatworms have developed evasive maneuvers.