Cultural Reference
In a humorous scene depicted in the movie Ghostbusters (1984), Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) conducts a clairvoyance experiment using Zener cards and punishment through the use of electric shocks (although he incorrectly terms it "negative reinforcement"), administered where the subject failed to demonstrate clairvoyant abilities.
These cards are also used in the film, "The Gift."
In Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999), (as a reference to Zener cards) a young Anakin Skywalker, in an interview with the Jedi Council, had to perceive (in a clairvoyance-like test) a device that projected images on a monitor held by Yoda, in order to examine the power and control of Anakin's Force-wielding abilities.
In the video game The World Ends With You, Shiki Misaki, a partner of the main protagonist, Neku Saruba, uses Zener cards to attack enemy 'Noise'.
Witch house band ∆AIMON named their song '○+☆≋□' after Zener cards in their 2011 release Amen EP.
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“A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is pulled by the others, thus perpetually changing the configuration of the whole. If the cultural element called morals takes on a new shape, we must ask what other strings have pulled it out of line. It cannot be one solitary string, nor even the strings nearby, for the network is three-dimensional at least.”
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