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● Testing receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit [new study]

● The “Santa Claus Effect” – positive or negative? (two viewpoints)

● Choices for Students : Food or Smartphones – Smartphones or Food? (new study)

● Justin Bieber’s opinion on the Big Bang – inconsequential, or not? (new study)

● Prestige-car ownership and sex attractiveness ratings

● Olympic Gold Medalists Die Earlier (than Silver Medalists) [new study]

● ‘Watching Eyes’ nudge technique not always 100% effective (new study)

● Smiling intensity among scientists is related to greater scientific achievements (new study)

● Evaluating an app which nags users to apologize to their phones

● Superfluous apologies – an easy-to-use tool for social influencers?

● Unsettling cigarettes (study)

● Beats Per Minute affects Bites Per Minute

● The analgesic effects of dancing in synch (study)

● The physiological underpinnings of aversion to images of clusters of holes (new study)

● Shopping – more like gathering than hunting? (study)

● Why women wear high heels (new study)

● Bugsplat (technologically facilitated remoteness increases killing behavior)

● Fancy Upgrade Car Wheels and their Evolutionary Significance (study)

● Cover image orientation in celebrity cookbooks (new study)

● Do Interruptions Affect Quality of Work? (study)

● Interrupting people : the pros and cons

● Is the face a window to the soul? (study)

● Preferred Women’s Waist-to-Hip Ratio (Variation over the Last 2,500 Years)

● Dirty Hands Make Dirty Leaders? (study)

● Shouting and Cursing while Driving (a new study)

● Can eating hot and spicy food lead to heated debates? (new study)

● People’s preferences for complex explanations (new study)

● Towards irrational robots

● A newly described illusion – the Pot/Lid Illusion

● Ball squeezing and creativity

● Towards a Boredom Recognition Engine

● Attractiveness of Leg Length (updated)

● Nose Art Psychology

● He’s Interested in Interesting-ness

● Sex and Religion – a re-examination

● The Chills – what gives them?

● Weekends good – weeks not so

● Lottery-ticket fate-tempting in Ithaca

● Hungry people prefer maturer mates?

● Laterality in Canine Cradling

● Leg length & attractiveness: bottom line

● Swearing – a psychological tool

● Further pinpointing Mona Lisa’s elusiveness

● The Mystery of the European Smile

● Ha Ha Yecchhhh Ha Ha

● Kissing Inclinations, Amsterdam

● Making up the tips

● Male Teachers & Marriage: the Lowdown

● How high and why

● Gesturing on the ‘phone

● The Hot Sauce Paradigm

● Flowers: But are they worth it?

● Mr. Py’s progress

● Ripping notes

● Etiquette and effort

● Teeth clenching and mathematics

● Recognitions – part 4 – “Sloshing sounds courtesy of…”

● Male parking | Female parking — Factors Thereof

● Recognitions – part 3 – Tarr’s Fribbles, Yadgits, and such

● Dancing beards and armpits

● Recognitions – part 1 – Where is the nose?

● Exploring disgust-related tactile processes

● Fishy smells (psychological effects of)

● Stupid stories and subsequent stupidity

● Do Blondes Get More Funds?

● Dr. Martens’ Extermination Machine

● Professor Haans’ less rubbery hands

● Ennui Amongst Chinese Librarians

● Contemplating death — not so bad after all

● Scrutinising the FACS: the Outer Brow Raiser

● Nasal topsy-turvyism examined

● Scrutinising the FACS: The Wink

● Male Avatars’ Dances – How attractive?

● Scrutinising the FACS: Cheek Raiser & Lid Compressor

● Eye colour and (dis)agreeableness

● A study of frowns, scowls, and grimaces during sex

● Psychological Truth(s)

● Grooming – is it worth it?

● Dangerous smells (boxing study)

● Abusing robots – current positions [part 2 of 4]

● Thigh Gaps

● Civil Inattention – it exists (in elevators and elsewhere)

● Weight-lifting enhances museum exhibit appreciation (study)

● Abusing robots – current positions [part 1 of 4]

● The Kajimoto laboratory (part 2): Muscular laugh enhancement

● Understanding Stigma with a ‘Dogfood Sandwich’

● Ball squeezing for enhanced creativity (update)

● Waiters’ tips and the weather: Analysis of a possible connection

● The Kajimoto laboratory (part 1): Goosebumps

● Disgusting toolhandles (studies)

● Too tired to cheat?

● Dr. Altschuler on … Whole Body Discrepancies

● Partially drunk people can appear more attractive

● A wokfull of cockroaches – observing observers

● The Butcher’s Tongue Illusion (update)

● Illuminating Hopelessness Study

● “How Much Do You Like Your Name?”

● Personal space gauges (one’s arms)

● The bad news sandwich

● The sunshine-spreads-a-smile experiment

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