I’m not sure how I feel about the science behind this, but it’s probably worth a closer look. LA Times reports on a new study showing people with fancier cars tend to “cheat”… Read the rest “Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.”
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss:
… Read the rest “Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.”The more negative the bosses’ management style, the less
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details:
… Read the rest “Corporate telepathy”There are, however, some brief periods in a person’s life when old routines
LiveScience shows just how canny little babies are in selecting grown-ups to emulate:
… Read the rest “Babies mimic grown-ups… if they trust them.”Researchers divided 60 babies between 13 months and 16 months into two groups. In the first group,
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found a strange link between forgetting things and walking through doorways:
… Read the rest “The doorway of forgetting.”New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor
Scientific American looks over the mystery surrounding autism – and why, less than 75 years after it was first identified, the syndrome seems to be growing:
… Read the rest “The autism puzzle.”Studies attributed it
Discover magazine’s Discoblog brings to light a study linking the feeling of being bored with the feeling of entitlement:
… Read the rest “Yes, precious snowflake, you do deserve to be bored.”“All people have to complete dull tasks, but individuals
That’s how The Telegraph puts it. “Boffins” (a lovely word) helped the band Marconi Union design a song so relaxing, you shouldn’t put it on your car stereo:
… Read the rest “Scientists and Manchester band create world’s most relaxing song.”Dr
That’s the idea behind a study by University of Oxford and the University of Auckland researchers in PhysOrg. The scientists found that our ability to live in lots of different social… Read the rest “Humans: The *sociable* ape?”
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful:
… Read the rest “Noise hurts. Why?”As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America conference in San Diego, California, [Michael Oehler
And, according to Scientific American, when I “errr” and “hmmm” too. Those weird verbal tics help children learn:
… Read the rest “It makes, uhhh, more sense. When I, ummm…”Such vocal hesitations, called disfluencies,
Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians:
… Read the rest “Whole Foods’ Mind Control”For example, sales records
In fact, PhysOrg says, new solutions to old problems tend to turn people off. The more creative the solution, the harder it is to sell:
… Read the rest “Outside the box isn’t easy.”The paper [co-authored by Jack Goncalo, ILR School assistant
Scientific American comes close to my ink-stained heart with their interview with psychology professor Timothy D. Wilson, a leading authority on using story editing to change people’s… Read the rest “Write wrongs with editing therapy.”
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