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Hanging up on home phones
The Montreal Gazette: Ever find yourself wondering whether it’s worth it to keep and, perhaps more importantly, pay for that home phone line? Even though a majority of Canadian homes have at least one cellphone
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What use of pronouns reveals about personality
The Boston Globe: The way in which we use pronouns like I, you, or him — or choose not to use them — reveals quite a bit about our personalities but not necessarily in the
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The Book Bench
The New Yorker: In the News: Out on a Limn, Pronoun Psychology The composer Philip Glass will publish a memoir with Norton. Remember the uproar over the critic Michiko Kakutani’s (over)use of the word “limn”?
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Psychologists Interrupt the Miserable Cycle of Social Insecurity
Tom likes Susan but he fears she does not like him. Expecting to be rejected, he’s cold toward Susan. And guess what? She snubs him back. His prophesy is self-fulfilled, his social insecurity reinforced. The
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When Do You Owe an Apology? Depends on Gender
Both men and women may be pulling pranks this April fool’s but you can bet more women than men will be apologizing after. A study published in Psychological Science found that men apologize less frequently
