During my recent trip to Erasmus University in the Netherlands, I asked marketing professor Ilona de Hooge what is the difference between guilt and shame: In a recent blog post about guilty pleasures, I suggested that you can figure out what songs you feel guilty about by your attempts to
Dan Ariely is offering a Behavioral Economics MOOC. As part of the emotions lesson, I present a guest lecture on how the benign violation theory explains what makes things funny. Pretend that you are taking the class and join the Google chat on Friday, May 3rd at 5:00 PM Eastern
Massive online open courses (MOOCs) are growing in popularity. The New York Times, for instance, is mildly obsessed with them (see also Thomas Friedman’s excellent opinion piece about how MOOCs are a disruptive innovation). Now there is a behavioral decision theory MOOC, which is offered by Coursera and taught by
During my sabbatical trip to the Erasmus Research Institute of Management, Nailya Ordabayeva showed me here research on how people have difficulty judging changes in size. The takeaway: People are not good at this task. (I swear that we were not drinking). —————————— The abstract of Nailya’s paper: Understanding consumer
Laughter serves a signaling function. I suggest that it signals one of two kinds of situations: A situation that appears wrong is actually okay: -You see someone fall down.You are concerned until you hear the person laugh. -You tell an off color joke on a date. You worry they you
I visited Erasmus University on a sabbatical visit. While there, I interviewed some of the faculty about their research. Here is the second interview, where I asked marketing professor Nicole Mead about her research on money Does handling money make you a bad person? So there you have it: It
It’s that time of year. If you are in love, good for you. If you are not, good luck getting some. In any case, a good sense of humor (GSOH) is a highly-desirable quality in lovers and friends. Why? Two (of many) reasons why a good sense of humor is
Talk invite: Decoding Humor at Work Business is serious business. The stakes are high and competition is fierce. But has work become too serious? Could life be better if you enjoyed more humor in your personal and professional life? Come to a Happy Hour talk on February 20th to find out.
In this introspective episode of Solo Thoughts, Peter McGraw delves into the life-altering insights gained from a year’s worth of solo psilocybin trips, exploring
Welcome to the final episode of I’M NOT JOKING. Comedian JD Lopez returns from Episode 1 to debrief and reflect on Peter’s experience building
