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‘Big Brother’ eyes make us act more honestly
00:01 28 June 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Debora MacKenzie

We all know the scene: the departmental coffee room, with the price list for tea and coffee on the wall and the “honesty box” where you pay for your drinks – or not, because no one is watching.

In a finding that will have office managers everywhere scurrying for the photocopier, researchers have discovered that merely a picture of watching eyes nearly trebled the amount of money put in the box.

Melissa Bateson and colleagues at Newcastle University, UK, put up new price lists each week in their psychology department coffee room. Prices were unchanged, but each week there was a photocopied picture at the top of the list, measuring 15 by 3 centimetres, of either flowers or the eyes of real faces. The faces varied but the eyes always looked directly at the observer.

In weeks with eyes on the list, staff paid 2.76 times as much for their drinks as in weeks with flowers. “Frankly we were staggered by the size of the effect,” Gilbert Roberts, one of the researchers, told New Scientist.

...[Read the full article at New Scientist]


So, what effect might eyes in the DonationCoder site banner have?

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I know C++ is the language of choice at DC but would you consider opening the contest to other Borland Developer Studio languages?  I might enter the contest if Delphi for Win32 were allowed. 

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Living Room / Mouser's Software Reviewed
« on: February 01, 2006, 03:50 PM »
DonationCoder member Furman87 has done some great reviews of Clipboard Help+Spell and Find & Run Robot on his blog:


furman87's essential software

"Great software that you should be using whether you think so or not"

 :Thmbsup:

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