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Hygienic and cosmetic therapy. Showering, shaving, moisturizing, clipping, plucking, tweezing, waxing, tanning, spraying, cutting, washing—each hygienic and cosmetic directive becomes more important when delaying completion of that final paper. After all, who can write about Kant with uneven brows, dry skin or greasy hair? This method of procrastination often involves trips to CVS to stock up on more chapstick, shaving gel or skin care product...
Researchers have devised other tools to look at more transient moods. Csikszentmihalyi pioneered a method of using beepers and, later, handheld computers to contact subjects at random intervals. A pop-up screen presents an array of questions: What are you doing? How much are you enjoying it? Are you alone or interacting with someone else? The method, called experience sampling, is costly, intrusive and time consuming, but it provides an excellent picture of satisfaction and engagement at a specific time during a specific activity...
Just last month, a team led by Nobel-prizewinning psychologist Daniel Kahneman of Princeton University unveiled a new tool for sizing up happiness: the day-reconstruction method. Participants fill out a long diary and questionnaire detailing everything they did on the previous day and whom they were with at the time and rating a range of feelings during each episode (happy, impatient, depressed, worried, tired, etc.) on a seven-point scale. The method was tested on a group of 900 women in Texas with some surprising results. It turned out that the five most positive activities for these women were...
...food or affect its smell or taste. They are also lightweight, making repetitive chopping less of a strain. The hardness of the blades makes them less flexible, however, and they should not be used for cutting that requires maneuverability, such as carving. And there's not yet a reliable method for home sharpening, so you might have to return the knife to the manufacturer when the edge finally dulls...
Ultimately, what matters above all is not the method but the result. Kirby insists that the 2003-2004 numbers “will very quickly become an anomaly.” Now that Summers and Kirby have thankfully acknowledged that the ball is in their court, we hope to watch the number of female tenure offers continue increasing for years ahead...