Quirkology (45 page)

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Authors: Richard Wiseman

 
 
Pace of life
 
Padgett, Vernon
 
Palo Alto, California (as a caring community)
 
“Pan American” smile.
See
Fake smiles
 
Paranormal activities.
See
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
 
Parents
 
lying about child’s birthday
 
manipulating child’s birth date to obtain tax benefits
 
Paris, France (pace of life in)
 
“Pass the parcel” studies
 
Patterson, Francine
 
Patterson, New Jersey (level of helpfulness in)
 
Paulos, John Allen
 
“Peanuts” comic strip (Schulz)
 
Pelham, Brett
 
Pellegrini, Robert
 
“Peritsi”
 
Personal ads
 
tips for writing
 
Personality characteristics
 
accuracy of astrological predictions
 
choice of greeting cards
 
Forer’s personality test, accuracy of
 
Personality Inventory
 
Persons, Chuck
 
Pessimism and mortality rate
 
Petiot, Marcel
 
Petranoff, Robert
 
Phenomena
(journal)
 
Philip (prince)
 
Phillips, David
 
Photographs
 
composite photographs of presidents
 
of facial expressions
 
of real and fake smiles
 
Physical characteristics of lying
 
Physical response to another based on excitement
 
Pick up lines
 
Pillinger, Colin
 
Pineault, Tony
 
Pisces (astrological sign)
 
Pizza topping, choice of
 
Plant, Robert
 
Plato
 
Pogo the Clown
 
Police Squad!
(movie)
 
Polish men, height study
 
Politics
 
facial hair, impact on evaluation of candidates
 
height of candidates
 
political ads
 
politicians and lying
 
surnames effecting choice of candidates
 
Population density effecting helpfulness
 
Positive astrological signs
 
Positive emotions and life expectancy
 
Post Offices, gauging speed at
 
Powell, Bingham, and Bingham-Powell
 
Power of suggestion.
See
Suggestion, power of
 
“Practice what you preach”
 
Prague, Czech Republic (pace of life in)
 
Prayer and life expectancy
 
Prejudice
 
Presidents
 
facial analysis of
 
height of
 
Pretend the World Is Funny and Forever
(Fisher and Fisher)
 
Pride of the Yankees
(movie)
 
Priests, honesty of
 
“Prison study”
 
Producers, The
(movie)
 
“Professional” audience members
 
Professors and Trivial Pursuit
 
Prosocial behavior.
See
Antisocial behavior
 
Psychological benefits of laughter
 
Psychology of time.
See
Chronopsychology
 
Punch
(magazine)
 
Punch lines
 
Puns
 
Pupil size revealing interest
 
 
 
Q test for lying
 
Quiet night in hospital jinx
 
 
 
Racial prejudice, measuring
 
Railroad station experiment on time passing
 
Ramat Gan, Israel, superstition and stress in
 
Rasputin
 
Rat, beheading of
 
Reagan, Nancy
 
Reagan, Ronald
 
Reanimation of the dead
 
Regents Park Zoo
 
Reiner, Carl
 
Relaxed personality
 
Religion
 
evaluating honesty of priests
 
helpfulness of various religious groups
 
religious fundamentalism and laughter
 
Remembering, deceptive
 
Republic, The
(Plato)
 
Republican Party
 
Restaurants and tipping
 
Retina
 
Review of Economics and Statistics
(journal)
 
Rieur
 
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), level of helpfulness in
 
Risk takers and month of birth
 
Ritchie, Graham
 
Rochester, New York (level of helpfulness in)
 
Rogers, Jimmie
 
Romantic deception
 
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
 
Rorschach Inkblot Test
 
Rotton, James
 
Royal Institution
 
Rozin, Paul
 
Rudeness in New York City
 
Rush (music group)
 
Ruth, Babe
 
 
 
“Sad clowns”
 
Sagittarius (astrological sign)
 
Saint, cities’ names beginning with
 
Salaries effected by height
 
Salivary immunoglobulin A
 
San Jose (Costa Rica), level of helpfulness in
 
Santa Claus, size of in drawings
 
Saroglou, Vasilis
 
Saving money and decision making
 
Saving Private Ryan
(movie)
 
Savoy Hotel (London)
 
Scanlon, Thomas
 
School Sisters of Notre Dame
 
Schulz, Charles
 
Scientists, sense of humor of
 
Scorpio (astrological sign)
 
Scotsmen as butt of jokes
 
Scottish Neolithic passage grave
 
Scribbler, Ernest
 
Séances.
See also
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
 
Seinfeld, Jerry
 
“Self vs. others” in personal ads
 
Self-control, loss of
 
Self-deception.
See
Deception
 
Self-disparaging jokes
 
Self-esteem, levels of
 
Self-identity
 
Self-image
 
Self-monitoring
 
Self-perception, impact of superiority jokes on
 
Sellers, Peter
 
Senpu
 
Sensation seekers and month of birth
 
Sensho
 
“Sensory overload” theory
 
Serial killers.
See
Mass-murderers
 
Sesame Street
(TV show)
 
Seven (the number)
 
Shakespeare, William
 
Shakku
 
Shatner, William
 
Shelley, Mary
 
Sheridan, Charles
 
Sherman, Vincent
 
Shopping
 
misuse of express lane in grocery stores
 
music effecting wine purchases
 
“shopping mall” study
 
“Short” on cash
 
Shortness of description and lying
 
Shrinking world.
See
Small world
 
Siffre, Michel
 
Simenon, Georges
 
Similarity, psychology of
 
giving aid only to those with similar views
 
horn honking study
 
and similar birth dates
 
Simmon, Dan
 
Simpsons, The
(TV show)
 
Singapore
 
Singh, Simon
 
“Six degrees of separation”
 
Slapstick humor
 
Slemrod, Joel
 
Small world .
See also
Shrinking world
 
coincidences
 
“pass the parcel” studies
 
Smiles
 
detecting real smiles vs. fake
 
effecting sense of humor
 
of
Mona Lisa
 
people responding to
 
showing happiness
 
Smith, Gary
 
Smith, Katie
 
Smith, Matthew
 
Smith, Stephen
 
Sneakers, choice of color
 
“Soapy Sam”
 
Social Register, The
 
Social responsibility, creating
 
Social status and number of jokes told
 
Sofia, Bulgaria (pace of life in)
 
Some Like It Hot
(movie)
 
Sorrows of Young Werther, The
(Goethe)
 
Sound waves
 
Sour cream as favorite food
 
South Park
(TV show)
 
Southern Hemisphere study of luck
 
Spain, honking car horns in

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