“Cognitive Dissonance and the Perception of Natural Environments,” Emily Balcetis and David Dunning, Psychological Science, vol. 18, no. 10, October 2007, pp. 917–21 (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1111/ j.1467-9280. 2007.02000.x). (Thanks to Keith Niall for bringing this to our attention.) The authors are at Ohio University and at Cornell University. Dunning shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Psychology Prize […]
Month: September 2009
Risky consultants, celebrated
“It’s a fantastic project,” he assured me. “It’s about risk management. They need a lot of help. It’s pretty scary down there. I’m going to position you as a risk management expert.” “You know I never did any work in the risk management area, right?” I said. He replied: “Relax! We have three weeks before […]
The Curious Case of the Boyfriend and the Replacement Cat
“A Zoocentric Capgras Syndrome” [article in German], U. Ehrt, Psychiatrische Praxis, vol. 26, no. 1, January 1999, pp. 43–4. The authors, who are at Klinik und Poliklinik fur Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Halle/Saale, Germany, report that: “We present a case of a 23-year-old women who had the delusional belief that her cat had been replaced by […]
Logos and ovaries
The Dangerous Minds blog points out this recurrence of patterns: