If someone had told Sisyphus that he was no longer required to push a large boulder up a mountainside for all eternity . . . would he have carried on anyway? According to a 2010 paper in the journal Psychological Science, he might well have. “Our research suggests that Sisyphus was better off with his punishment […]
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The scourge of ‘Alphabetism’ (new paper from professor Zax)
Professor Zax, who is (amongst other things) an anthroponomastician at the Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder, US, presents (along with co-author Alexander Cauley) a new 48 page working paper which suggests that (males) who have a surname initial which occurs towards the end of the alphabet are more likely to end up […]
Retaliation on a voodoo doll (symbolizing an abusive supervisor) restores justice [new study]
Mistreated by a supervisor at work? Would it make you feel a little bit better if you could, say, torment a voodoo doll? Professor Lindie Hanyu Liang (at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) and colleagues have investigated such things. In return for a $1 payment, 195 full-time employees […]
On the nature of creepiness (study)
“Surprisingly, until now there has never been an empirical study of ‘creepiness’ “ This situation was rectified by Professor Francis T. McAndrew and Sara S. Koehnke of the Department of Psychology, Knox College, Galesburg, US, in a 2016 paper for the journal New Ideas in Psychology. The team stopped short of giving an exact definition […]
