“Recreation, Leisure and the Alcoholic,” H. Douglas Sessoms and Sidney R. Oakley, Journal of Leisure Research, vol. 1, no. 1, 1969, pp. 21–32. The authors report: “The Curriculum in Recreation Administration of the University of North Carolina and the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center (ARC) at Butner, N.C., jointly undertook and investigation of the leisure patterns of […]
Tag: Soft Is Hard
Scientists Now Know: Intimacy
“Associations of Sex and Type of Relationship on Intimacy,” D. Salas and K.E. Ketzenberger, Psychological Reports, vol. 94, no. 3, part 2, June 2004, pp. 1322–4. The authors, who are at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, in Odessa, report that [AIR 16:1]: “Both men and women reported significantly higher mean scores on […]
Pencil-Chomping & Race Bias in Several Persons
Although it involves just a few test subjects, a pencil-chomp study presumably provides insight into the hard-to-measure subject of race bias. “The Influence of Facial Feedback on Race Bias,” Tiffany A. Ito, Krystal W. Chiao, Patricia G. Devine, Tyler S. Lorig, and John T. Cacioppo, Psychological Science, vol. 17, no. 3, 2006. (Thanks to investigator […]
Appreciating organizational psychopaths
Psychopathology is a little-publicized branch of science. This monograph in particular received surprisingly little acclaim when it was published: “The Dark Side of Management Decisions: Organisational Psychopaths,” Clive Roland Boddy, Management Decision, vol. 44, no. 10, 2006, pp. 1461–75. [AIR 15:4] (Thanks to Martin Gardiner for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Middlesex […]