This is an interesting article I stumbled upon while searching for something to blog about. While we know that fonts do affected us consciously or subconsciously, does it affect us so much that our grades can be dependent on it? This guy seems to think so. Now, before you get overly excited about getting good grades based on what font you use, the "experiment" described has so many variables left in the air, like what classes the guy took, what his major was, and what was the selection of fonts he used. I can't find the original blog, the link sends me to a Japanese blog error page. Anyways, I think it would be very interesting to see this actually studied for a psychology lab or something. Follow a bunch of students from a university who are willing to put their grades on the line for a study to see if serif or sanserif fonts get you better grades.
http://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2008/01/15/do-serif-fonts-get-you-better-grades/
~Catherine
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