Super-prolific professors sometimes, like superheroes in comic books and movies, sometimes team up. Professor Furnham Prolific British professor Adrian Furnam recently teamed up to produce a blockbuster paper with ultra-prolific American professor David Lester. Professor Furnham then teamed up with up-and-coming prolific professor Martin Voracek to produce another blockbuster. Here are the new hit papers: […]
Year: 2010
“Trojan.. hard evidence.. phallometric device”
“Trojan concluded that the only way to obtain hard evidence was to administer a test using a phallometric device.” So reports Jan Puhl in Spiegel Online about a curious story. The article begins: Controversy Surrounds Czech Use of Erection-Measurement Machine Authorities in the Czech Republic have been using a supposed erotic lie detector to test […]
The Chills – what gives them?
“ ‘Chills’ (frisson manifested as goose bumps or shivers) have been used in an increasing number of studies as indicators of emotions in response to music …” But in a new research project, investigators from Hanover University of Music and Drama (hmtmh) in Germany focussed their attention not just on chills which are exclusively musically-induced, […]
Caganer: A load of holiday cheer
Tis again the season for caganer, especially in Catalonia. AnneLise Sorrensen, in Rough Guide, describes this Christmas tradition: The Catalan nativity scene, el pessebre, festively displayed in homes across Catalunya, appears as idyllic as any other. A thumb-sized Jesus, warmed by a circle of farm animals, sleeps peacefully under the gaze of Mary and Joseph. […]