Ah, but voodoo dolls. Not only can you furiously stab a voodoo doll in the privacy of your home, you also don’t have to be anywhere near the subject of your aggression.

Here’s how the experiment was conducted: The participants were each given a voodoo doll and told it represented their spouse. They were also given 51 pins.

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March 4, 2010 -- After a long stretch of unemployment in 2009, Mindy, an office manager, used a voodoo doll to try boosting her chances of getting hired.

Even then, the dolls were often used for benevolent purposes, such as helping an infertile couple conceive. The concept of pinpricking-for-pain style voodoo dolls is mostly a product of Hollywood.