726. While most social progress has been made in a nonlinear fashion, people believe progress is made in a linear fashion (Hur and Ruttan 2023) 727. The flow of information provided by East German industrial espionage in the West led to a significant narrowing of sectoral gaps between West and East Germany (Glitz and Meyersson […]
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25 interesting facts #29
701. Margarine was invented in response to Napoleon III’s call for a cheap alternative to butter (Vaisey-Genser 2003) 702. People consistently underestimate others’ desire for feedback (Abi-Esber et al. 2022) 703. Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment (Gottschalk et al. 2020) 704. Teaspoons and tablespoons are unreliable dosing devices […]
25 interesting facts #28
676. Many psychology researchers overestimate the evidence in favor of a theory if one or more results from a set of replication studies are statistically significant (van den Akker 2023) 677. The movie Sideways led to an increase in the growing of pinot noir grapes in lower value Central Valley vineyards (Consoli et al. 2022) […]
25 interesting facts #27
651. Words for negative concepts mutate more than words for positive concepts across Indo-European languages (Jackson et al. 2022) 652. Renters are starkly underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States (Einstein et al. 2022) 653. The term jaywalking was defined in a larger struggle to redraw the boundary between street use and […]
25 interesting facts #26
626. You don’t need to look at the eyes of your audience to be perceived as making eye contact (Rogers et al. 2019) 627. Shaking a bottle of champagne slightly decreases the pressure inside (Vreme et al. 2015) 628. The return trip often seems shorter than the initial trip, even when the distance traveled and […]