Too Cute to Resist: How Design Influences Behavior
Do cute products sell better? To explore this question, researchers measured the effect of cute, playful and whimsical products on consumption and indulgence.
Test participants...
Can You Force Someone To Be Healthier?
In wellness, there’s no one-size-fits-all regimen. In fact, the first step on the path to a better, healthier, happier life, is choice.
In a classic...
Not Your Mother’s Manners
It is not unusual to hear manners dismissed as artificial or outdated vestiges of a formal and stuffy past. Some argue that manners constrain...
What Is the Sexiest Male Scent?
Studies have proven that we are what we eat. As in, it registers in our smell. And in a recent experiment, men who gobbled...
Sunshine: Cutting-Edge Medicine
For many years, I had a dark and dingy office with a soot-smeared window in a sterile hospital building. It was minimalist, to say...
Why I’m Prescribing a Mediterranean Diet to My Patients
When I was training to become a psychiatrist, I rarely paid attention to what my patients ate. Unless the person had an eating disorder...