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Authors: Richard Wiseman

 
Germany
 
and caring communities
 
German sense of humor
 
honking car horns in
 
pace of life in
 
superstition between two world wars
 
Ghostbusters
(movie)
 
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
 
Global shrinkage.
See
Shrinking world
 
Gloves, mystery of the vanishing
 
“Gloves as Vanishing Personal ‘Stuff’: An Informal Look” (Trinkaus)
 
Glynn, Laura
 
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
 
Gold Shield Coffee Company
 
Golden Bough, The
(Frazer)
 
Goldwater, Barry
 
Goldwyn, Samuel
 
Gone With the Wind
(movie)
 
Good Samaritans
 
Goon Show, The
(radio show)
 
Gore, Al
 
Gorillas using sign language to lie
 
Gosall, Gurpal
 
“Grand Inquisitor.”
See
Day, Robin
 
Grant, Cary
 
Graphology
 
Greenfield, Susan
 
Greening, Emma
 
Greeting cards, psychology of
 
Gregor, Thomas
 
Grove, Lefty
 
Guangzhou, China, pace of life in
 
Guinness World Record
 
Gundlach, Jim
 
Gutierrez, Debi
 
 
 
Hague, William
 
Hair, psychological importance of
 
Hamilton, Margaret
 
Hamlet
(Shakespeare)
 
Hampton Court (London)
 
Handel, George Frideric
 
Handwriting analysis
 
Hanft, Lucas
 
Hannin, Harry
 
Happiness
 
happy eaters are bigger tippers
 
and smiling
 
Harker, Lee Anne
 
Harlem Globetrotters
 
Harris, Peter
 
Harrison, Albert
 
Hartman, Arthur
 
Harvard, John
 
Harvard University
 
Hauntings.
See
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
 
Health
 
benefits of laughter
 
and numbers
 
Heart rate and physical attraction
 
Heaven, people’s chances of going to
 
Height, psychological importance of
 
estimated based on status of person
 
in politics
 
Height of Your Life, The
(Keyes)
 
Hellard, Margaret
 
Help, provision of
 
and caring communities
 
giving aid only to those with similar views
 
helpful cities
 
measuring willingness to help
 
to those with similar birth dates
 
treatment of abandoned used car
 
by various religious groups
 
Herrmann, Alexander
 
Heussenstamm, Frances
 
Hidden messages
 
Higham, Philip
 
Highfield, Roger
 
High-frequency sound waves
 
Hingis, Martina
 
Hinsz, Verlin
 
Hira, Kenji
 
Hitler, Adolf
 
Hoffman, Dustin
 
Hollywood movies
 
effects of watching different kinds
 
gender taste in
 
influence of Hollywood on stereotyping
 
Holmes, Sherlock (joke about)
 
Honesty.
See also
Deception; Lying
 
amount of hair a factor in determining
 
evaluating priests and used-car dealers
 
judging Nixon’s during the presidential debate
 
study of reactions to overpayment
 
Hong Kong
 
Hooligans and Trivial Pursuit
 
Horn-honking
 
Horoscopes
 
Hospitals, superstitions and
 
Hostility
 
Hotel Meurice (Paris)
 
Hound of the Baskervilles, The
(Conan Doyle)
 
Houran, James “Jim”
 
Houston, Texas (level of helpfulness in)
 
Humor.
See also
Jokes; Laughter
 
brain scans showing physical impact of
 
comedy potential of letter “K”
 
creating sense of superiority
 
Humor,
continued
 
Freud on humor
 
incongruity as a basis for
 
national differences in
 
Hunt for Red October, The
(movie)
 
Hurley, Jesse
 
Huxley, T. H.
 
 
 
“I,” use of when lying
 
I Told You I Was Ill
(TV show)
 
Ice House (comedy club in Pasadena)
 
Imagination and belief in strange phenomena
 
Impatience and honking car horns
 
Incongruity as basis for humor
 
Independence Day
 
people born around
 
presidents dying on
 
“Individualism” and caring
 
Indonesia
 
and caring communities
 
pace of life in
 
Influence
(Cialdini)
 
Infrasound.
See
Low-frequency sound waves
 
Ingersoll, Robert Green
 
Initials spelling out words
 
Institute of Psychiatry
 
International Herald Tribune
(newspaper)
 
Introversion
 
and sending greeting cards
 
Investments and astrology
 
Ireland
 
pace of life in
 
superstition about hospital stays
 
Italy, honking car horns in
 
It’s a Wonderful Life
(movie)
 
 
 
Jack (family member named)
 
Jahoda, Gustav
 
Janus, Samuel
 
Japan, pace of life in
 
Japanese superstition
 
lucky and unlucky days
 
year of the Fire-Horse
 
Jastrow, Joseph
 
Jefferson, Thomas
 
Jenkins, Rob
 
Jerusalem, Israel, superstition and stress in
 
Jesus, birth date of
 
Jesus of Montreal
(movie)
 
Jet lag
 
Jews rating jokes
 
Joel, Woolf
 
John Fig, Inc. (company)
 
Johnson, Andrew
 
Johnson, Lyndon B.
 
Johnson, Samuel
 
Jokes.
See also
Humor; Laughter
 
age groups and joke appeal
 
brain scans showing physical impact of
 
creating sense of superiority
 
gender differences
 
incongruity as a basis for
 
sample jokes
 
self-disparaging jokes
 
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
(Freud)
 
Jones, Steve
 
Jones, Terry
 
Jorgenson, Dale
 
Journal of Applied Psychology
 
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
 
Journal of the Society for Psychical Research
 
Judge, Timothy
 
Juries and facial sterotyping
 
 
 
“K,” comedy potential of
 
Kabuki
 
Kaku, Kanae
 
Kaspar (black cat)
 
Kassarjian, Harold
 
Keating, David
 
Kellar, Harry
 
Keltner, Dacher
 
Kennedy, John
 
Ketchup as favorite food
 
Key, bending of
 
Keyes, Ralph
 
Kim, David
 
King, Carole
 
King, Richard
 
Knees, shining a light on
 
Knippenberg, Ad van
 
Koko (gorilla)
 
Kopczuk, Wojciech
 
Kraut, Robert
 
Kroto, Harry
 
Krusty the Clown
 
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), level of helpfulness in
 
Kupcinet, Irv
 
Kwadwo
and
Kwaku
 
 
 
Labeling effecting self-image
 
Labour Party
 
Landis, Carney
 
Language of lying
 
LaPierre, Richard
 
Large numbers, law of
 
Larson, Gary
 
Las Vegas casinos

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