Are there hat-wearing patterns in spectators who attended baseball games — patterns that might be discernible over a ten-year period, patterns that might be exploitable? This study claims to begin to answer those questions. “Hat-wearing Patterns in Spectators Attending Baseball Games: a 10-Year Retrospective Comparison,” Aaron S. Farberg, Stephen Donohue, and Darrell S. Rigel, Cutis, […]
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3-month-old infants, some ladies, and some hats
What can one do with photos like these, which show some ladies and some hats? Show them to three-month-old infants, and then publish a study. One of the few groups to do exactly that published this study: “How a Hat May Affect 3-Month-Olds’ Recognition of a Face: An Eye-Tracking Study,” Hermann Bulf, Eloisa Valenza and […]
Festive Headgear in Organizational Contexts
For the first time, a scholarly study has investigated the effects (in an organizational context) of not just one – but four – types of festive headgear. Dr. Ann Rippin who is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, UK, in the Department of Management, authored a paper for the journal Organization in 2011. […]
Carmen Miranda and Her Hat
’The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat’: Carmen Miranda, a Spectacle of Ethnicity,” Shari Roberts, Cinema Journal, vol. 32, no. 3, Spring 1993, pp. 3–23. (http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1225876). (That’s an except from the article “Soft Is Hard,” Published in AIR 15:3.)