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New Hairstyle Syndrome — The Illusion of Sudden Social Conspicuousness
There’s a curious form of temporary self-consciousness created by radically altering something about one’s outward appearance that gives the feeling of suddenly sticking out like a sore thumb. Whether...
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Your [Noun] Looks So [Adjective]! — The Anatomy of a Compliment and Art of...
Compliments are ubiquitous conversation devices; we give and receive them every day. But what ingredients must a statement contain to be classed as one, and—more importantly—is there a recipe for the...
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Dirty Words: A Probing Analysis of 5,000 Call Girl Reviews
There is an online subculture of men who review their encounters with escorts using a frank, exhaustive style you’d associate more with reviews of hotels than sex. I analyzed five thousand of these...
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Life of a Call Girl: Fantasy vs. Reality
“You make it fun and do a dance at the end when you count the money.” In the final weeks of 2011, I delved once more into the secretive world of the UK sex industry. This time my focus wasn’t on men...
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Death in Texas: Analyzing the Last Words of 478 Death Row Prisoners
Roughly once every 22 days, a convicted killer is executed in America’s busiest death house: the Huntsville “Walls” Unit in Texas. He cannot choose his final meal, but once strapped to the execution...
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Cupid on Trial: A 4-month Online Dating Experiment Using 10 Fictional Singletons
Is online dating a different experience for men than it is for women? To find out, I conducted a 4-month experiment in the US and UK using 10 dummy dating profiles. Here’s what happened… Only eating...
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Deep Inside: A Study of 10,000 Porn Stars and Their Careers
For the first time, a massive data set of 10,000 porn stars has been extracted from the world’s largest database of adult films and performers. I’ve spent the last six months analyzing it to discover...
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Down the Rabbit Hole: What One Million Sex Toy Sales Reveal About Our Erotic...
If you could take a sneaky peek into the naughty bedside drawers of 300,000 people, what would you see and what might it say about their sexual psychology? For the very first time, the sales of one...
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How to Cope with Heartbreak
The universe seems to have a really clever, and frequently brutal, way of equalising good and bad. Every fresh relationship has the potential for giving its participants the greatest good there is:...
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