by John M. Jennings | Jan 10, 2024 | Sociology, The IFOD
How much do you contribute to housework relative to your significant other? This question was the subject of a 1979 study that asked married couples to select on a continuum their relative contribution to 20 activities around the house. Things like cooking dinner,...
by John M. Jennings | Nov 14, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
Sometimes air travel sucks. Delayed flights. Crowded airports. Stressed and testy airline employees. And planes always seem to be packed to the gills. Maybe it’s not surprising that air rage incidents are up, with the International Air Transport Association...
by John M. Jennings | Oct 26, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
We’re Wired to Care About Social Status We’re wired to care about where we stand in the social pecking order: seeking and protecting social status is a primary human motivation. Like other group-living animals, our desire for higher status is an adaptive...
by John M. Jennings | Aug 16, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
A recent study out of Sweden found that intelligence is correlated to higher earnings, but only up to a point. Sweden has compulsory military service for males, and intake into the military includes a battery of psychological and cognitive tests. The researchers...
by John M. Jennings | Jul 6, 2023 | Health, Sociology, The IFOD
My wife, Tammy, was flying from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles this week after dropping my daughter off to study aboard at the University of Tasmania when a passenger two rows in front of her died. The decedent’s wife told the flight attendants that he had...
by John M. Jennings | May 23, 2023 | Sociology, The IFOD
All I want to know is where I’m going to die so I’ll never go there. -Charlie Munger In 2019, students at the University of California San Diego examined whether the top causes of death lined up with what people search for on Google and what is reported by...