Research Archive

Dr. Helena Voss, Prof. Marcus Chen

Behavioral Residuals · 2023 · Vol. 35, No. 1

Across twelve cultures and 4,000 observed meals, subjects consistently left a mean of 1.3 bites unconsumed. This paper proposes a unified theory of "completion aversion" and its relationship to portion size perception, social signaling of satiation, and the paradox of "eyes bigger than stomach."

Dr. Raymond Okonkwo

Spatial Relations · 2023 · Vol. 35, No. 2

This paper models waiting room seating as a multi-player game with incomplete information. We find that seat selection follows predictable patterns until occupancy reaches 60%, at which point "social spacing collapse" occurs and subjects exhibit measurable stress responses.

Dr. Felix Mendez

Spatial Relations · 2022 · Vol. 34, No. 2

Subjects overestimate the speed of adjacent queues by a factor of 2.3. This paper demonstrates that queue-switching behavior is largely irrational and proposes interventions to reduce "queue anxiety" in retail environments.

Dr. Ingrid Petersen, Dr. Yuki Tanaka

Applied Awkwardness · 2022 · Vol. 34, No. 1

When subjects wave at someone who was not waving at them, they employ one of seven distinct recovery strategies. This paper categorizes these strategies, measures their social cost, and finds that the "phone check pivot" has become dominant since 2015.

Prof. Marcus Chen, Dr. Samuel Oduya

Temporal Perception · 2021 · Vol. 33, No. 1

Through longitudinal study of 2,400 subjects, we establish decay curves for resolution adherence across categories. Exercise resolutions show a half-life of 12 days; financial resolutions, 23 days. "Learn a language" exhibits unusual bimodal distribution.

Dr. Samuel Oduya

Temporal Perception · 2021 · Vol. 33, No. 2

Survey data from 15 countries confirms that Tuesday is consistently rated as the "least distinct" day of the week. This paper explores why Tuesday lacks the psychological markers that give other weekdays their character, and what this reveals about human temporal categorization.

Dr. Yuki Tanaka

Response Latency · 2020 · Vol. 32, No. 1

Subjects who know the answer to a text message wait an average of 7.2 minutes before responding. This paper examines delay as social performance, finding that response time is modulated by perceived relationship status, message content, and time of day.

Dr. Constance Weatherby

Linguistic Anxieties · 2019 · Vol. 31, No. 1

Analysis of 50,000 professional emails reveals that semicolon usage correlates strongly with educational attainment and weakly with actual grammatical necessity. This paper argues that punctuation choice has become a form of class performance.

Prof. Marcus Chen, Dr. Helena Voss

Threshold Studies · 2019 · Vol. 31, No. 2

At what point does one commit to finishing the bag of chips? Through controlled experiments, we identify a critical threshold at approximately 62% consumption, after which stopping requires significantly more cognitive effort than continuing.

Dr. Raymond Okonkwo

Spatial Relations · 2018 · Vol. 30, No. 1

This paper applies game theory to men's restroom behavior, modeling urinal selection as a problem of social distance maximization under spatial constraints. We derive optimal strategies and find that actual human behavior matches theoretical predictions with 89% accuracy.

Dr. Ingrid Petersen

Applied Awkwardness · 2017 · Vol. 29, No. 1

When two parties walking in opposite directions say goodbye and then discover they are walking the same way, specific patterns of behavior emerge. This paper categorizes these patterns and their relationship to prior social intimacy.

Dr. Constance Weatherby, Dr. Yuki Tanaka

Linguistic Anxieties · 2016 · Vol. 28, No. 1

The shift from "I'm well" to "I'm good" in American English represents more than grammatical drift. This paper examines how the choice between these phrases signals social positioning, finding that conscious "well" usage now marks the speaker as either non-native or performatively educated.