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26 10 / 2012
"Nicholas Christenfeld, a University of California, San Diego professor of social psychology, along with Jonathan Leavitt, a PhD candidate at UC San Diego studying psychology, organized an experiment where volunteers were given three stories of different genres, written by well-known authors such as John Updike and Anton Chekhov. One of those stories had a spoiler in a separate paragraph, another had the spoiler worked into the opening paragraph and a last one did not have any hint of the ending. Participants typically enjoyed the stories with the spoiler at the very beginning the most, even when the story had an unexpected twist ending or was a murder mystery.
There are a few plausible explanations for this outcome. Christenfeld and Leavitt conclude that viewers are more likely to enjoy the actual story when they know the ending rather than waiting impatiently to find out that so-and-so killed so-and-so with the this-that-and-the-other-thing."
11 8 / 2012
Ugh, fine, you twisted my arm, I’ll tell you.
Adam Pally is the most attractive actor on Happy Endings.
05 7 / 2012
"And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. Trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy."
Margaret Atwood (via llenalena)
a bigger gpoy there never was.
(via suddeninevitablebetrayal)
(Source: pavorst, via heisenbergsays)
11 6 / 2012
you better act like you understand: the silver lining to my bathroom being destroyed is that it has...
or, the story of my parents’ house throughout my child and early adulthood
the silver lining to my bathroom being destroyed is that it has quelled my homesickness. growing up, my house and the houses of all my family and most people I knew were always incomplete. I think other working-class people can probably vouch for the fact that there’s always a half-done room or a…
13 5 / 2012
