Nicholas Guéguen has published a new romantic study. Professor Guéguen, whose imaginative and persistent attempts to explore the mysteries of l’amour we have sometimes chronicled is perhaps best known for his monograph “Women’s Bust Size and Men’s Courtship Solicitation“, which is considered to be one of the classics of its genre. The new paper is: […]
Tag: Psychology
Interview with Ig-winner David Dunning
Filmmaker Errol Morris interviewed Ig Nobel Prize winner David Dunning. Part 1 appears in today’s New York Times, under the headline The Anosognosic’s Dilemma: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is (part 1) Dunning and Justin Kruger shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology for their modest report, “Unskilled and Unaware of […]
“Insincere Flattery Actually Works”
Flattery drives, or maybe is driven by, the research efforts of a team at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s School of Business and Management. One might infer that from this study: “Insincere Flattery Actually Works: A Dual Attitudes Perspective,” Elaine Chan and Jaideep Sengupta, Journal of Marketing Research, vol. XLVI, 2009, (Thanks to […]
Rottenberg and Gross on Tearful Crying
Among the studies on tearful crying, none other has quite the zing as that of Rottenberg and Gross. Details: Rottenberg, J., Wilhelm, F. H., Gross, J. J., & Gotlib, I. H. (2003). “Vagal rebound during resolution of tearful crying among depressed and nondepressed individuals,” Psychophysiology, 40, 1–6.