The habit of laughing at the end of a difficult sentence isn’t nervousness
The Habit of Laughing at the End of a Difficult Sentence
There is a particular sound people make at the end of a hard sentence,...
A randomized trial coauthored by a Wharton researcher followed nearly 17,000 students across 10 Indian colleges and found that collecting phones at the beginning...
Impact of Phone Collection on Student Performance: Insights from a Large-Scale Trial in Odisha
At the onset of lectures across 10 higher education institutions in...
The Stanford marshmallow test was once treated as a window into a child’s self-control. But a University of Rochester experiment found that children who...
The Marshmallow Test Reconsidered: Trust and Rational Waiting in Childhood
The famous marshmallow test presents a child with a deceptively simple choice: eat one treat...
People who prefer standing at parties instead of sitting down aren’t necessarily restless, they may be maintaining the small option to leave, and that...
The Unseen Strategy of Standing at Social Gatherings
At many social gatherings, there’s often one person who never quite settles in. They hold a drink,...
Psychology says people who overshare with strangers — the barista, the Uber driver, the person beside them on the plane — aren’t odd or...
Understanding the Human Need to Share: Why Oversharing with Strangers Happens
On a flight departing Bangkok, a woman shared with me, somewhere above the Bay...