Buzzwords in Academic Papers:

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Who buys cosmetic surgery?:

t just the rich: ...cosmetic surgery is now primarily consumed not by the rich, but by the working and lower-middle classes, sometimes even by the poor.  According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), about 1/3 of cosmetic surgery is consumed by people who make less than $30,000 a year.  About 70% of it is consumed by people who make less than $60,000 a year. It is mostly women (90%) and mostly white, middle-aged women (80% and between…

FRONTLINE: Behind the Scenes in the Credit Card Industry:

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Virtual Mafia in Online Worlds:

a schneier.com: If you allow players in an online world to penalize each other, you open the door to extortion: One of the features that supported user socialization in the game was the ability to declare that another user was a trusted friend. The feature involved a graphical display that showed the faces of users who had declared you trustworthy outlined in green, attached in a hub-and-spoke pattern to your face in the center. [...] That feature was fine as…

Dan Ariely on the behavioral economics of Thanksgiving:

ra Klein asked Dan Ariely, Duke Economist and author of the bestseller Predictably Irrational, how to use behavioral economics to restrain oneself on Thanksgiving: I asked Ariely how he would set up his Thanksgiving feast to limit overeating without having to exercise self-control. His answer was to construct the "architecture" of the meal beforehand. Create conditions that guide people toward good choices, or even use their irrationality to your benefit. "Move to chopsticks!" he exclaimed, making bites smaller and harder…

The politics of Obama’s skin color:

ether or not you agree with Barack Obama's politics may influence how dark- or light-skinned you think he is, according to research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, which set out to determine whether political views can skew skin color perception, included three experiments. In all three, participants viewed photographs of either President Obama or a fictional biracial politician. In some of the photographs, the candidate's skin tone was darkened or lightened, while others…

Interview with “Predictably Irrational” author Dan Ariely:

Six things science has revealed about the female orgasm:

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