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Professor

Linnda Caporael is a professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Educational background

Linnda R.

Caporael is a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the department of Technical Studies and Science. She received her PhD in Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and she also studied human ethology at the Institute of Child Development at the University of London.

Salem witch trials summary

She is a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and a visiting scientist in the Dept. of Invertebrate Paleontology and in the Dept. of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History. She researches culture from a biological perspective and biology from a cultural perspective.^[1]

Hypothesis of ergotism and the Salem witch trials

In the April 2, , weekly issue of Science magazine, Caporael debuted a hypothesis that the accusations of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, in could have been caused by