Faces in the morning

From Marginal Revolution, I see this pointer by Courtney Knapp to a place that sells wallpaper “designed for people who don’t want a roommate, but still want company. It’s a photographic wall coverings with images of life-size people. The wallpaper shows attractive, original-sized individuals, in different situations at home.”

My first thought when seeing this was that it reminded me of Seth Roberts’s idea, obtained from self-experimentation, of seeing life-sized faces in the morning as a cure for depression. See Section 2.3 of this paper for lots of detail on this hypothesis and the data Seth has to support it. Seth used TV to get the large faces but maybe wallpaper would work too. So maybe that wallpaper isn’t as silly as it sounds

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  1. I now use a mirror to get the faces; that is, I look at myself in the mirror. I listen to stuff at the same time — archived radio shows or audiobooks, usually. This is much easier than watching taped TV faces.

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