(Photo: zoetnet)The social dynamics of a luxury goods store can be weird. As we noted two months ago, dressing like a slob at a high-end shop impressed salespeople. That's because the employees assumed that only a rich p...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/05/05/Study-Rude-Salespeople-Make-You-Want-to-Buy-Fancy-Things/(Lunarbaboon)It may be counter-intuitive, but according to Harvard doctoral student Silvia Bellezza and her colleagues, it can pay off to dress down--or at least appear to be a non-conformist. Her studies published in th...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/20/Want-to-Impress-People-Wear-Sweatpants/"Hello, weakling!" Image: Pressmaster/Shutterstock Just hold the door open for him. That's right: a new study by researchers from Purdue University showed that rather than being courteous, you are act...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/03/10/One-Weird-Trick-to-Destroy-a-Mans-Ego/[http://youtu.be/O2hO4_UEe-4] (YouTube link)You've heard of the placebo effect, of course, but the converse has been observed as well. CGP Grey explains the "nocebo effect." When pharmaceuticals started being advertised...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/24/This-Video-Will-Hurt/(Image: Reluctant Groom cake topper now on sale at... ...ublished in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology was more sophisticated than that. First, the rese...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/23/Study-Men-with-Attractive-Wives-More-Satisfied-in-Marriage/This chart of mental diagnoses for the characters... ...agnoses from 2007. Another tried it in 2011. Even Psychology Today got into the act! You might notice that non...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/22/Sesame-Street-Mental-Disorders/The "Cheerleader Effect" is a theory advanced by the character Barney Stinson on the TV show How I Met Your Mother (although it did not originate with him) that says women look more attractive in a group than they do ind...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/01/The-Cheerleader-Effect-is-Backed-by-Science/You may have seen charts that classify people or even pop culture characters according to four letter codes, such as ENTJ and ISFP. Let me explain what they mean.The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung explored, among other fie...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/11/My-Little-Pony-MBTI-Chart-and-an-Explanation-of-the-Myers-Briggs-Typology/Artist Toby Allen created an series called Real Monsters, meaning psychological conditions that haunt real people, illustrated as monsters. It's a work in progress, with more to be added. Link -via Laughing Squid...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/20/Real-Monsters-by-Toby-Allen/Wait, what did my wife say to me? Something about it being my turn to pick up the kids today. Well, whatever. If it was important, she wouldn't have told me while I was watching My Little Pony.Psychological researchers a...
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