I hesitate to put the title of the whole article in the subject line for
fear of it hitting everyone's spam filter, but this article about
manspreading on the subways of NYC on the front page of The New York
Times today caught my attention. (Manspreading is the unlovely practice
of men sitting
How about including a cartoon of a pig, wearing a suit, but with
man-proportioned legs manspreading, and nasty little trotters showing?
From social psychology and I/O psychology, we have a pretty good idea that
making a behavior look foolish or embarrassing can be a good way to get it
to stop.
It is easy, because it isn’t a psychological problem (despite the various nasty
hypotheses that are commonly put forward by those inconvenienced by the
problem). It is, instead, straightforwardly physiological. Seats are almost
always built too short for most men (in order to comfortably
I apologize. I didn’t realize you had a personal anecdote on your side.
Chris
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Christopher D Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Canada
chri...@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/christo
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On Dec 21, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Beth Benoit beth.ben...@gmail.com
