One of the most surprising participants in Web Bubble 2.0 is AOL, the company formerly known as America Online.
Tuck took encouragement from last season's Arizona Cardinals, surprising participants in the Super Bowl, saying, "Who at this point in time last year would have said Arizona would make the Super Bowl?" But the Cardinals were 6-3 after nine games in 2008.
When this hypothetical scenario was played out for real, the researchers found something pretty surprising: participants who were categorised as "lower class" (based on their income, education and self-reported ranking) donated more tickets when the donation was anonymous (a mean of 2.5 tickets per person) than public (a mean of 1.5 tickets per person).
The beepers are timed to sound only at long intervals, surprising participants and triggering an immediately retrospective assessment of their "inner experience", emotion, or thoughts in the moment before the beep.
Masked priming experiments occasionally revealed surprising effects: Participants responded slower for congruent compared to incongruent primes.
Another notable finding from the report is that companies are becoming more communicative about their CEO succession plans so as to avoid surprising market participants.
Research has shown that people prefer to be happy when collaborating but angry when confronting, so it's not particularly surprising that participants in this study generally chose the angry music before the confrontational task and the happy music before collaborating.
Posterior insula activation has been ascribed to proprioceptive functions, which may not be surprising since participants may make use of proprioceptive feedback information upon error commission, such as the action of pressing the response button [23].
From this viewpoint, it is not surprising that participants in dual-task-groups performed better in the post-tests.
Therefore, it was not surprising that participants who consumed a large amount of this food group had a higher BMI.
