James Forr

Clay Banks / Unsplash A timely column from pollster John Zogby on Ferguson, Eric Garner, and the limits of “Big Data” in helping make sense of an emotional response.

Marketplace reports on the escalating prices of high-end consumer goods – specifically, handbags. The cost of a classic Chanel handbag was under $1,000 in the mid-1980s. If you adjust that…

Good column in the New York Times by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us) about the malleability of memory. Even memories…

“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” was released last week. The critics’ reaction has been lukewarm and, as a result, the box office performance has been somewhat disappointing (although…

Here are details of a study – which includes implicit association testing as a component – which suggest that white Americans unconsciously perceive blacks to be “superhuman.” Whites are relatively…

We all spend time in them.  Some of us spend more time in them than we would like. Taxi cabs. The New York Times has a couple of interesting taxi-related…

Maybe the key to thinking creatively is to ruminate about how wonderful you are. New research in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests a correlation between the need to be…

It is election day across the United States. In each election cycle political strategists rely more and more on “big data” to target voters. But as this article describes, big…

The Most Interesting Man in the World is now the most interesting man in your headset. Dos Equis is sending Oculus Rift 3-D headsets to bars in key US markets,…

That sound you hear coming from your car’s engine? It might not be real. As heard on NPR’s “Marketplace,” car makers have been working for years to minimize engine noise.…

How do minority consumers feel in the financial services marketplace?  "Rejected, Shackled, and Alone." That is the title of a recent paper published by the Journal of Consumer Research. The…

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has a knack for using metaphor to simplify (or, some might argue, over-simplify) complex global issues. On Sunday, he used the metaphor of an…