Linda: The myth of Pygmalion is told in Ovid's Metaphorphoses. Pygmalion was a gifted young sculptor in Cyprus who fell in love with a statue he had carved. Pygmalion had strong misgivings about women ...
In the early 1960s, a psychology experiment at the University of North Dakota involved students working with lab rats. Half were informed their rats were genetically predisposed to excel in learning ...
Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In the story told by the Roman poet Ovid, Pygmalion is a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he has ...