Ripped from today’s headlines.
Ever crack open your lighter just as Willie Nelson is getting ready to start crooning a soothing ballad, only to have approximately five billion people around you whip out their smartphones . . . or worse, iPads? Well, now there’s science to back up what every non-annoying person has known … Read More
There’s a reason why we avoid the comments section of sites like Fox News and Reddit’s r/worldnews: rampant conspiracy theorists. Actually, there are a bunch more reasons (rampant racism, rampant dickery, rampant homophobia), but we’re most annoyed by the conspiracy theorists. Fortunately, researchers Michael Wood and Karen Douglas were willing … Read More
Everyone lies, right? Sure, but according to new research, a small percentage of people do most of the lying, while the rest of us are actually pretty honest. For a study published in Human Communication Research, researchers conducted a survey of 527 people to find out how often they’d lied … Read More
There’s a reason for trash-talking—besides the fact that it’s fun. Pissing off your opponent might give you an advantage. In fact, researchers call it the Materazzi Effect, named for the soccer player Marco Materazzi, who goaded Zinedine Zidane into head-butting him and thus kicked out of the 2006 World Cup … Read More
Let’s say that the inevitable has happened and Miley Cyrus has become a coked-out wreck, much like every other celebrity we chew up and destroy. How soon after her motel room death can you joke about her? Well, according to a study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, around … Read More
