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After sticking pins in the voodoo doll, these workers reported that they felt lower levels of hostility towards their boss, as well as lower levels of injustice and bitterness.

They determined this by giving all the participants a voodoo doll representing their spouse at the start of the experiment. They also gave each participant 51 pins.

The study is getting a lot of attention because voodoo dolls were used to measure how husbands and wives felt about each other at the end of the day. Researchers asked the spouses to stick pins in ...

In Voodoo, a poppet or effigy (what many call a "voodoo doll") can be used to represent a person, with pins or other actions intended to influence them. But not all uses of these dolls are malevolent.