Rolf Zwaan [pictured here], writing in his blog, explains how his (and colleagues’) Ig Nobel Prize-winning study, “Leaning to the Left Makes the Eiffel Tower Seem Smaller: Posture-Modulated Estimation,” came about: In a previous post I alluded to the fact that I had produced an amusing title a few years ago for an article that was published in Psychological Science (it was intended as […]
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Behind the left-leaning Eiffel Tower experiment
Rolf Zwaan writes, in his blog, about the experiment that led (among bigger things) to the 2012 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology: I alluded to the fact that I had produced an amusing title a few years ago for an article that was published in Psychological Science (it was intended as a parody on the article titles in that […]
Archiving piano music for left handers
Takeo Tchinai, head of the Archiving Project for Left-Hand Piano Musicoversees a growing corpus* of music for pianist who, for whatever reason, have lost or never had some or all use of their left hand, perhaps because they have lost or never had some or all of their left hand, perhaps because they have dystonia, perhaps […]
Left v. Right: How Academics Face-Pose on the Web
A new study, the purpose of which some may find delightfully puzzling, looks at the self-portraits scholars put on their home pages: “How Academics Face the World: A Study of 5829 Homepage Pictures,” Owen Churches [pictured here], Rebecca Callahan, Dana Michalski, Nicola Brewer, Emma Turner, Hannah Amy Diane Keage, Nicole Annette Thomas, Mike Elmo, Richard […]