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Jesse Bering is an experimental psychologist and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at the Queen's University, Belfast. See full bio

Comments on "'Tis the Season: The Psychology Behind Christmas Cards"

'Tis the Season: The Psychology Behind Christmas Cards

Stasis makes me antsy. As a consequence, I’ve cycled through a lot of different houses over the past few years. Rather strange houses. I’ve lived in everything from a tacky condominium in Boca Raton, a renovated bowling alley apartment in Fayetteville, a secluded log cabin in the middle of the Ozark Forest, an old terraced flat overlooking the Atlantic, to my present house, a somewhat bland townhouse with a view to the cemetery across the road, where the tombstones are so close I can tell you from my living room window the date Edward Sullivan died (Feb 18, 1932). Read More

an e-card for you

MERRY EVOLUTION, JESSE!!!!
;)
YG

This is absolutely

This is absolutely fascinating. I laughed just picturing your exchanges with both neighbors.

Some people take the Christmas card list so seriously that they are constantly editing it. A cousin of mine in good standing deleted me from his list when I missed a year (I was too busy). It's pretty funny that people do not just send cards for feel-good's sake (no expectation) but instead harbor ulterior motives, even when they're not aware of it.

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