Career Profile

Remarkability also shapes how stories evolve over time. A group of <br>psychologists from the University of Illinois recruited pairs of students for what <br>seemed like a study of group planning and performance. Students were told they <br>would get to cook a small meal together and were escorted to a real working <br>kitchen. In front of them were all the ingredients necessary to cook a meal. Piles <br>of leafy green vegetables, fresh chicken, and succulent pink shrimp, all ready to <br>be chopped and thrown into a pan. <br>But then things got interesting. Hidden among the vegetables and chicken, the <br>researchers had planted a small—but decidedly creepy—family of cockroaches. <br>Eww! The students shrieked and recoiled from the food.