With Halloween just two days away, I’m armed (with candy!) and ready. This preparation has caused me to think about the behavior of kids on Halloween, and I came across an interesting research study from the 1970s. Researchers set up an experiment (designed by professor of psychology Edward Diener) in Seattle with 1352 unsuspecting HalloweenContinue reading “A Famous Trick-or-Treat Experiment”
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Changing Halloween Traditions
When I taught ESL (to adults), one of the things I liked to spend at least a few minutes on as they rolled around every year were American holidays. Most holidays are fairly simple to describe and explain, but Halloween is not one of them. I tried a couple of times to look at theContinue reading “Changing Halloween Traditions”