Your High-Intensity Feelings May Be Tiring You Out
Why are we always exhausted at the end of a workday? Why do we come home wiped out, with barely enough energy to make dinner before collapsing for the night? Normally, when we think about being tired,...
View ArticleConsumers will pay higher prices if marketers relax them first: Columbia...
NEW YORK – July 28, 2011 – A forthcoming paper in the American Marketing Association’s Journal of Marketing Research by Professor Michel Tuan Pham, Kravis Professor of Business, Marketing, Columbia...
View ArticleMortgage-lending meltdown: a microcosm of all of our problems?
When organizations mimic each other without an appropriate guiding culture or ethic at the institutional level, dysfunction is unavoidable. Newswise — Innovation drives markets. But when innovation is...
View ArticleWhy lying seems so prevalent these days
A disturbing trend is surfacing with increasing frequency of late in the public arena—widespread, well-organized lying. The Atlanta public schools are now embroiled in a state-sponsored investigation...
View ArticleHow horrible bosses are getting even worse: new study
Virtually anyone who stays in the work force long enough will eventually have a really lousy boss — and perhaps quite a few, if that employee sticks it out until retirement age. Those lousy bosses...
View ArticleProblem gamblers are particularly impulsive during high or low moods
Research led by the University of Cambridge has found a link between impulsivity and flawed reasoning (such as believing in superstitious rituals and luck) in problem gamblers. Studying compulsive...
View ArticleWhy sucking up to the boss is healthy: Journal of Management Studies
Savvy career minded individuals have known for some time that ingratiating oneself to the boss and others – perhaps more commonly known as ‘sucking up’– can help move them up the corporate ladder more...
View ArticleEmployees don’t always share well with others, says new paper exposing...
Why isn’t knowledge transfer happening more often in companies spending money on it? Maybe it’s because their staff don’t always want to share. “We’ve had years of research in organizations about the...
View ArticleHow to tell someone is lying: American Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
When someone is acting suspiciously at an airport, subway station or other public space, how can law enforcement officers determine whether he’s up to no good? The ability to effectively detect...
View ArticleHow we’re all manipulated by drug companies, health clubs, the auto industry,...
Ever since Adam Smith, the central teaching of economics has been that free markets provide us with material well-being, as if by an invisible hand. In Phishing for Phools, Nobel Prize-winning...
View ArticlePersonality Traits Predict the Onset of Disease
Sara J. Weston1, Patrick L. Hill2, Joshua J. Jackson1⇑; 1Department of Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA 2Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada; Joshua J. Jackson,...
View ArticleThe negative results of concealing who you really are on the job
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY’S HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS – Most know that hiding something from others can cause internal angst. New research suggests the consequences can go far beyond emotional...
View ArticleSo-called universal personality traits, openness, conscientiousness,...
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits –– or slight variations of these five –– are a universal feature of human...
View ArticleHow a repeated lie becomes the truth
With a little practice, one could learn to tell a lie that may be indistinguishable from the truth. New Northwestern University research shows that lying is more malleable than previously thought, and...
View ArticleShould I marry him? New study on doubts and decisions about marriage.
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one. —Voltaire In the first scientific study to test whether doubts about getting married are more likely to lead to an unhappy...
View ArticleWhy are we so overconfident and what does that mean?
Researchers have long known that people are very frequently overconfident – that they tend to believe they are more physically talented, socially adept, and skilled at their job than they actually...
View ArticleFalse-hope thinness expectations lead to weight-loss failure: new evidence
Eat Behav. 2012 Apr;13(2):142-5. Epub 2011 Dec 2. Thinness expectations and weight cycling in a sample of middle-aged adults. Olson EA, Visek AJ, McDonnell KA, DiPietro L. Source Department of...
View ArticleHiding true self at work can result in less job satisfaction, greater turnover
Hiding your true social identity — race and ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation or a disability — at work can result in decreased job satisfaction and increased turnover, according to...
View ArticleSuspicious, unfriendly and competitive people have aggressive dogs for pets:...
More posts about aggression Aggressive dog ownership is not always a sign of attempted dominance or actual delinquency A study carried out at the University of Leicester’s School of Psychology has...
View ArticleLiars are not easily spotted by emotionally intelligent people
People who rate themselves as having high emotional intelligence (EI) tend to overestimate their ability to detect deception in others. This is the finding of a paper published in the journal Legal...
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