Dear Dr. Weeks: I would think that as people get older their eccentricities would become more evident as they would be more able to express themselves freely. Instead I find the opposite. Most senior citizens [...]
Dear Dr. Weeks: Living With An Eccentric
Dear Dr. Weeks, I tried to have a relationship with a true eccentric when we moved in together but it drove me bonkers. I know it’s hard to live with eccentrics but do you have [...]
Dear Dr. Weeks: The Sad Eccentric
Dear Dr. Weeks, My friend has always dressed exactly how she wants, said whatever she was thinking, expressed her emotions without reservation and refuses to conform. But instead of it making her happy, she is [...]
How The Science Of Eccentricity Has Moved Forward
by Dr. David Weeks As my research showed, eccentrics are as diverse as are many other categories of people. Most of the scientific research that has been done since my book was published has looked [...]
You Might Be An Eccentric If …
After completing a 10-year scientific investigation on eccentricity Dr. David Weeks, a Scotland-based psychologist, found that his 1000 subjects shared or exhibited 25 key characteristics. According to Dr. Weeks, the first 10 of these are [...]
Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
Dr. David Weeks was the first person to scientifically investigate eccentricity. He discusses his surprising finding in the attached video, including the five key characteristic traits that are most common in eccentric individuals. To learn [...]
How the eccentrics have affected me
First of all, it is important to know that an experienced psychological investigator and interviewer will always try to empathize with the person he is interviewing. If you do this for a long period of time, [...]
The Definition of Eccentricity
As my study was the first and, to this day, the only scientific investigation of eccentricity, one of my goals was to arrive at a description of eccentric individuals living in the community. Although the eccentrics [...]