Cupid on Trial: A 4-month Online Dating Experiment Using 10 Fictional Singletons

Is online dating a different experience for men than it is for women? To find out, I conducted a 4-month experiment in the US and UK using 10 dummy dating profiles. Here’s what happened…

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Death in Texas: Analyzing the Last Words of 478 Death Row Prisoners

Roughly once every 22 days, a convicted killer is executed in America’s busiest death house: the Huntsville “Walls” Unit in Texas. He cannot choose his final meal, but he CAN choose his final words…

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Your [Noun] Looks So [Adjective]! — The Anatomy of a Compliment and Art of Giving One

Compliments are ubiquitous conversation devices, but did you know that most are totally unoriginal? With insights from psycholinguistics, I shine a light on the anatomy of a compliment…

Life of a Call Girl: Fantasy vs. Reality

In this follow-up to Dirty Words, I survey dozens of escorts and analyze the adverts of over a thousand more to find out what it’s really like to be a call girl. The truth is a blend of the bizarre and the mundane and not to be missed…

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My on-air interview about Cupid on Trial

Bill Leff invited me onto WGN Radio — the most listened to talk show station in the midwest of America — to talk about my online dating experiment ‘Cupid on Trial’.

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