The Huffington Post: Here are some of my favorite surprising studies. What do they have in common? • People are more likely to buy jam when they’re presented with 6 flavors than 24. • After inspecting a house, real estate agents thought it was $14,000 more valuable when the seller More
The Huffington Post: On prime time TV this week, during halftime of the NBA playoff game, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation of California ran a paid advertisement to protest cultural stereotyping of Native Americans. The two-minute clip was a series of images, each associated with a spoken word: soldier, doctor, spiritualist, son More
On prime time TV this week, during halftime of the NBA playoff game, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation of California ran a paid advertisement to protest cultural stereotyping of Native Americans. The 2-minute clip was a series of images, each associated with a spoken word: soldier, doctor, spiritualist, son, daughter More
Discovery News: Before you submit that headshot of yourself on LinkedIn or Facebook, you might want to consider — does it really show you in a good light? A new study finds that people can glean wildly inaccurate first impressions of people based on slight variations in how a person’s More
Slight variations in how an individual face is viewed can lead people to develop significantly different first impressions of that individual, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. “Our findings suggest that impressions from still photos of individuals could be deeply misleading,” More
The New Yorker: On January 27, 2008, Penny Boudreau’s twelve-year-old daughter, Karissa, went missing in her hometown of Bridgewater, Canada. That afternoon, mother and daughter had had a fight in a grocery-store parking lot. They’d been having a “heart-to-heart” about “typical teen-age things,” Boudreau said. At 7:30 P.M., Boudreau, worried More
