Quirkology (45 page)
Authors: Richard Wiseman
Pace of life
Padgett, Vernon
Palo Alto, California (as a caring community)
“Pan American” smile.
See
Fake smiles
See
Fake smiles
Paranormal activities.
See
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
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)
(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)
(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
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)
(Fisher and Fisher)
Pride of the Yankees
(movie)
(movie)
Priests, honesty of
“Prison study”
Producers, The
(movie)
(movie)
“Professional” audience members
Professors and Trivial Pursuit
Prosocial behavior.
See
Antisocial behavior
See
Antisocial behavior
Psychological benefits of laughter
Psychology of time.
See
Chronopsychology
See
Chronopsychology
Punch
(magazine)
(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)
(Plato)
Republican Party
Restaurants and tipping
Retina
Review of Economics and Statistics
(journal)
(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)
(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
See also
Ghosts and ghostly phenomena
Seinfeld, Jerry
“Self vs. others” in personal ads
Self-control, loss of
Self-deception.
See
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
See
Mass-murderers
Sesame Street
(TV show)
(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
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)
(TV show)
Singapore
Singh, Simon
“Six degrees of separation”
Slapstick humor
Slemrod, Joel
Small world .
See also
Shrinking world
See also
Shrinking world
coincidences
“pass the parcel” studies
Smiles
detecting real smiles vs. fake
effecting sense of humor
of
Mona Lisa
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)
(movie)
Sorrows of Young Werther, The
(Goethe)
(Goethe)
Sound waves
Sour cream as favorite food
South Park
(TV show)
(TV show)
Southern Hemisphere study of luck
Spain, honking car horns in
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