by Craig Marker | Jun 17, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from the Mind Hacks blog discussing a recent article about differences in showing off wealth:The Atlantic magazine has an interesting article on how conspicuous consumption – the practice of showing off luxury goods – differs across...
by Craig Marker | Jun 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from the Don’t Delay Blog:Three British psychologists …collected data from 179 students, measuring their procrastination (behavioral and decisional), worry, anxiety, depression and metacognition. … “Metacognition refers to...
by Craig Marker | Jun 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt from the ‘As you like it’ Blog. It describes a poor survey done on AOL. If Comedy Central were doing a skit on survey design, this would be it. If a slot machine were as rigged as this survey, the gaming commission would shut down the...
by Craig Marker | Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt discussing how a physician’s expectancy can change how much the patient experiences the placebo effect:… it is possible to show that doctors are as important in producing the meaning response as patients. Gracely et al (1985) looked at...
by Craig Marker | Jun 9, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here is an excerpt of a blog discussing a recent article published in Science:Another recent article by Elizabeth W. Dunn, Lara B. Aknin, and Michael I. Norton, published in 2008 in Science, concluded that money can buy happiness, so long as the money is spent on...
