The Morning After: What We Learn from Halloween

What can we learn from Halloween?A lot, judging by numerous scientific studies and less scientific surveys.Halloween could help to collect a wide range of extreme facial expressions, including highly negative situations when children discover their parents ate up all their Halloween candy. This is what was done in the recent paper published in Emotion, the journal of American Psychological Association, and in an ongoing Jimmy Kimmel's challenge pictured above.  Smil [...]...

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Diener, E., Fraser, S., Beaman, A., & Kelem, R. (1976) Effects of deindividuation variables on stealing among Halloween trick-or-treaters. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 33(2), 178-183. DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.33.2.178  

Woolley, J., Boerger, E., & Markman, A. (2004) A visit from the Candy Witch: factors influencing young children's belief in a novel fantastical being. Developmental Science, 7(4), 456-468. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00366.x  

Jamison, J., & Karlan, D. (2016) CANDY ELASTICITY: HALLOWEEN EXPERIMENTS ON PUBLIC POLITICAL STATEMENTS. Economic Inquiry, 54(1), 543-547. DOI: 10.1111/ecin.12233  

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