A new study tries to focus on fury on the Internet that’s defined by fury on the Internet: “Recursive fury: Conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation,” Stephan Lewandowsky, John Cook, Klaus Oberauer and Michael Hubble, Frontiers in Personality Science and Individual Differences, vol. 4, no. 73, epub February 2, […]
Tag: Internet
Tiny Study: Internet-Ordered Viagra Is Rarely Genuine
The company that manufactures Viagra mounted a tiny study of some of the products called “Viagra” that are sold via some web sites: “Internet-Ordered Viagra (Sildenafil Citrate) Is Rarely Genuine,” Neil Campbell, John P. Clark, Vera J. Stecher, Irwin Goldstein, Journal of Sexual Medicine, volume 9, issue 11, November 2012, pp. 2943–2951. The authors, at […]
Santa Claus Internet Jokes (a Latvian study)
Guntis Pakalns, who is senior researcher, Dr.philol. at the Archives of Latvian Folklore, Institute for Literature, Folklore and Art at University of Latvia, has collated a unique and very extensive collection of Christmas-related humorous images and video clips found on the Internet. Dr. Pakalns outlines his project thus: “The central part of the article is […]
Flegr’s dominance/submissivity/sadomasochism/internet-trap test
Jaroslav Flegr [pictured here] devises complex tests to discern effects that may be suble. Here he is, at it in 2006: “Dominance, submissivity (and homosexuality) in general population. Testing of evolutionary hypothesis of sadomasochism by internet-trap-method,” Eva Jozifkova and Jaroslav Flegr, Neuroendocrinology Letters, vol. 27, no. 6, 2006, pp 711-8. The authors, at Charles University […]