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Seth Roberts was a Professor of Psychology at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. He was the author of the bestselling book ''The Shangri-La Diet''.〔Dubner and Levitt (Does the Truth Lie Within? ) The Accidental Diet, September 11, 2005.〕〔(About the Author ) on SethRoberts.net〕 He was well known for his work in self-experimentation which led to the discovery of his diet, multiple publications and a popular blog.〔Frauenfelder, Mark (Seth Roberts' fascinating self-experiments ) June 1, 2008.〕 Roberts's work has been featured in ''The New York Times Magazine'' and ''The Scientist''.〔〔Slack, Gordy (The Self-Experimenter ) Vol 21 | Issue 3 | Page 24〕 He was also a contributor to ''Spy'' and a member of the university’s Center for Weight and Health.〔(Seth Roberts: ) Spy Magazine Articles〕〔(Interview with Gary Taubes (Part 7) ) February 7, 2008.〕 Roberts died in April 2014 after collapsing while hiking.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://betabeat.com/2014/04/personal-science-pioneer-seth-roberts-passes-away/ )〕 ==Self-Experimentation== In the early 1980s, Roberts suffered from insomnia. Through self-experimentation, he set out to solve this problem by varying aspects of his lifestyle, like exercise and calcium intake.〔Minkel, JR (Self-Experimenter freed himself from insomnia, acne, and love handles ) ''Scientific American'', March 18, 2008.〕 After many failures to see an improvement in his sleep, he eventually discovered that delaying breakfast, seeing faces in the morning light, and standing solved this problem.〔Roberts, Seth (Self-experimentation as a source for new ideas: ) Ten examples about sleep, mood, health, and weight, 2004.〕 When Roberts discovered a trend or solution, he typically looked backwards evolutionarily for an explanation.〔(Does the Truth Lie Within? ) Dubner and Levitt. New York Times Magazine. 9/11/2005 "Once he stumbled upon this solution, Roberts, like many scientists, looked back to the Stone Age for explication."〕 Roberts would later apply this mentality to solving problems in health, sleep, and mood, among other things. The accuracy of Robert's conclusions have been questioned by scientists who challenge that his experiments lacked a control group and were subject to various biases.〔(Does the Truth Lie Within? ) Dubner and Levitt. New York Times Magazine. 9/11/2005 "Many modern scientists dismiss it as being not nearly scientific enough: there is no obvious control group, and you can hardly run a double-blind experiment when the researcher and subject are the same person. But might the not-quite-scientific nature of self-experimentation also be a good thing? A great many laboratory-based scientific experiments, especially those in the medical field, are later revealed to have been marred by poor methodology or blatant self-interest."〕 Roberts was called the "champion of self-experimentation" for his contributions to the field.〔 Professor Tyler Cowen called Roberts' theme of experimenting on the self the "highest stage of science."〔( Self-Experimentation ) "Seth realizes that the self is often the last thing we know and discovering the self is the highest stage of science not to mention performance art."〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seth Roberts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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