Are voodoo dolls and low blood sugar helpful for understanding why married couples squabble? A research study explores that very question, and we explore that study, in this week’s Improbable Research podcast.
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This week, Marc Abrahams discusses a published voodoo-doll-utilizing study (the very study that made the word “hangry” fairly famous). Tufts University biomedical researcher Dany Adams lends her voice, and her scientific expertise, and her opinions —with dramatic readings from a research study you may have overlooked.
For more info about what we discuss this week, go explore:
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“Low glucose relates to greater aggression in married couples,” by Brad J. Bushman, C. Nathan DeWall, Richard S. Pond, Jr., and Michael Hanus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 111, no. 17, 2014, pp. 6254-6257.
- Brad Bushman shared the 2013 Ig Nobel Prize for psychology.
The mysterious John Schedler or the shadowy Bruce Petschek perhaps did the sound engineering this week.
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