{"id":684,"date":"2010-12-20T14:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T22:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/shusterman_research\/2010\/12\/lab-family-feud.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:49","slug":"lab-family-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/2010\/12\/lab-family-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab family feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/magazine\"><b>Science magazine<\/b><\/a> (Nov 26, 2010) recently published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/330\/6008\/1177.2.full.pdf\"><b>letter<\/b><\/a> from Prof. Chamovitz of Tel Aviv University. He described how &#8220;the social fabric&#8221; in his lab during a recent year-long sabbatical &#8220;had deteriorated to a point where squabbling, backstabbing, and even screaming were common.&#8221; Help was eventually obtained from an unlikely source: a trained family therapist.<\/p>\n<p>The therapist talked to everyone in the lab and then gave her diagnosis, &#8220;we were a dysfunctional family, complete with rebellious adolescents (senior students), impressionable children (junior students),and impotent parents (technicians and the principal investigator).&#8221; The good news? Some forced group therapy sessions for the lab workers produced results. &#8220;The students and technicians relearned how to live and work together, the new students in the lab weren&#8217;t exposed to continued tension, and I [Chamovitz] regained control of the lab.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who says science isn&#8217;t a human activity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science magazine (Nov 26, 2010) recently published a letter from Prof. Chamovitz of Tel Aviv University. He described how &quot;the social fabric&quot; in his lab during a recent year-long sabbatical &quot;had deteriorated to a point where squabbling, backstabbing, and even&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/2010\/12\/lab-family-feud\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-light"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1852,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/1852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/shusterman_lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}