What tricks do stores use to get us to buy?
is is from an interview with Lee Eisenberg, author of Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What. Join over 190,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done – 5 Expert Tips How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful
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How can you fool people into thinking you like that awful gift they gave you?
th 75% of people being able to correctly identify whether or not a recipient liked the gift they received, how can we better fool people (and spare their feelings)? Make eye contact. Smile with your mouth and eyes, not just your mouth. Don't put the gift aside. Lift it like a trophy and show it off. From Humintell: What do you say when you receive a gift you are not too fond of? Eye contact, or lack thereof, is one…
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Should we buy good gifts for men and lousy gifts for women?
established relationships when men received crappy gifts they felt their partners didn't understand them and predicted doom for the relationship. Women who received lame offerings felt the reverse. Via PsyBlog: ...men who received poor gifts, on average, perceived less similarity with their partners and thought their future together was significantly shorter - as you'd expect. But this time women who received the poor gift from their partners actually saw greater perceived similarity and thought that their relationship would continue…
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What do we desire most frequently?
bin Hanson points to a study that randomly checked what people were desiring throughout the day: 208 participants (66% female) … indicated at least one current desire on half (49.9%) of the occasions at which they were beeped and responded (N=10,558), reported at least one recent desire on 26.7% of occasions, and reported neither a current nor recent desire on 27.6% of occasions. The most frequent desires among the total of 7,827 desire reports were those rooted in basic bodily…
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Here’s What Science Says Is The Secret To A Merry Christmas
ke sure to spend time with family, go to church, and don't focus on spending money or getting gifts. Being environmentally conscious can help and, if possible, be old and male: Despite the importance of Christmas within many cultures, research has not examined the types of experiences and activities that are associated with holiday well-being. Thus, we asked 117 individuals, ranging in age from 18 to 80, to answer questions about their satisfaction, stress, and emotional state during the Christmas…
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Do more people have heart attacks, go crazy and kill themselves around Christmas?
ere are more heart attacks: BACKGROUND: Research published in Circulation has shown that cardiac mortality is highest during December and January. We investigated whether some of this spike could be ascribed to the Christmas/New Year's holidays rather than to climatic factors. METHODS AND RESULTS: We fitted a locally weighted polynomial regression line to daily mortality to estimate the number of deaths expected during the holiday period, using the null hypothesis that natural-cause mortality is unaffected by the Christmas/New Year's holidays.…
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Can combing your hair improve your grades?
ybe. Grooming is associated with higher GPA's. Could be that those who are conscientious about their appearance are also more on top of their schoolwork. Then again, combing your hair might get you better grades if the correlation is due to teacher bias toward attractive or conscientious-looking students, something the researchers do mention: Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we investigate whether certain aspects of personal appearance (i.e., physical attractiveness, personality, and grooming) affect…
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Taller People Earn More Money Because They’re Actually Smarter
ller workers receive a substantial wage premium. Studies extending back to the middle of the last century attribute the premium to non-cognitive abilities, which are associated with stature and rewarded in the labor market. More recent research argues that cognitive abilities explain the stature-wage relationship. This paper reconciles the competing views by recognizing that net nutrition, a major determinant of adult height, is integral to our cognitive and non-cognitive development. Using data from Britain’s National Childhood Development Study (NCDS), we…
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