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Category: psychology

  • Halifax

    My last major stop on my trip was Halifax, where I presented research at the Canadian Psychological Association convention. The poster was about my research on the relationship between geomagnetic activity and creativity. Basically I found that when the earth’s magnetic field is disturbed by funky stuff going on on the sun, people are more…

  • Vodka Illusions

    Bill Deys recently wrote about a Business Week article stating that, in a blind taste test, all vodkas taste pretty much the same. It was an informal test with a writer and a few friends. Without statistical analysis, it’s impossible to tell if the friends were guessing at an above-chance level or not (there was…

  • How To Judge a Person Who Judges People By Their Shoes

    I recently got some new shoes. I think they are pretty nice. It got me thinking, though, about what shoes really mean, you know? Apparently there is this belief out there that you can judge a man by his shoes. I came across this at Well-Read Hostess, who says “you can tell everything you need…