Psychology

Sex and the Single Armrest: Use of Personal Space During Air Travel

Studies using a questionnaire and direct observation were designed co explore the correlation between sex and territorial space on air­ planes. Results indicate that men, with or without control for size, had a much greater tendency to use the common armrest.

Narcissus and the Psychiatrist

A play based on Ovid’s story of Narccissus’s mother, Liriope, who asks a wise man if her son would grow old and he replied, “Yes, if he never knows himself.”