On Ambady’s research on professors, see Nahni Ambady and
Robert Rosenthal, “Half a Minute: Predicting Teacher
Evaluations from Thin Slices of Nonverbal Behavior and
Physical Attractiveness,” Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology 64, no. 3 (1993): 431–441.
CHAPTER ONE. THE THEORY OF THIN SLICES: HOW A LITTLE BIT OF
KNOWLEDGE GOES A LONG WAY
John Gottman has written widely on marriage and
relationships. For a summary, see www.gottman.com. For the
thinnest slice, see Sybil Car-rère and John Gottman, “Predicting
Divorce Among Newlyweds from the First Three Minutes of a
Marital Conflict Discussion,” Family Process 38, no. 3 (1999):
293–301.
You can find more information on Nigel West at
http://www.nigelwest.com.
On whether marriage counselors and psychologists can
accurately judge the future of a marriage, see Rachel Ebling and
Robert W. Levenson, “Who Are the Marital Experts?”Journal of
Marriage and Family 65, no. 1 (February 2003): 130–142.
On the bedroom study, see Samuel D. Gosling, Sei Jin Ko, et