Mikhail Simkin, Author at Significance magazine

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Last year I wrote here how people preferred a musical record to … itself. The…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, 'Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different…

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In the 1930s, Pitirim A. Sorokin and J.W. Boldyreff conducted the most interesting experiment1. They…

Mikhail SimkinOctober 28, 2013

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A couple years ago I wrote about an experiment where researchers had hired an actor…

Mikhail SimkinOctober 1, 2013

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In a recent article I reported the results of the internet-test, where the takers had…

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In a recent article, I mentioned the Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest, the aim of which is…

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Recently I discussed my article1 which reported the results of the test where the takers…

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In a recent article1, Anouk Claes and Marc de Ceuster reported the achievements of Nobel…

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Previously I discussed1 my experiment that tested whether people can tell the masterpieces of abstract…

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Forty years ago, a singularly interesting lecture was held at the University of Southern California…