About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.
Nature blogger Graham Morehead isn’t looking over any new research with this post, which makes it all the more remarkable. Since the early 1960s, we’ve […]
psychology
Language is the music of emotion.
PLoS ONE presents research on music and words, showing that, no matter what language you use, speaking an emotion uses the same sounds as playing […]
Facebook more efficient than IQ tests at determining employability. (Yeah, HR will be reading your updates.)
Forbes takes us one step closer to the Facebook-dominated society with a Northern Illinois University study that finds a quick social media review works better […]
Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.
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 […]
Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss: The more […]
Corporate telepathy
New York Times takes a quick look at how retailers virtually read our minds by clocking all the little details: There are, however, some brief […]
Babies mimic grown-ups… if they trust them.
LiveScience shows just how canny little babies are in selecting grown-ups to emulate: Researchers divided 60 babies between 13 months and 16 months into two […]
The doorway of forgetting.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have found a strange link between forgetting things and walking through doorways: New research from University of Notre […]
The autism puzzle.
Scientific American looks over the mystery surrounding autism – and why, less than 75 years after it was first identified, the syndrome seems to be […]
Yes, precious snowflake, you do deserve to be bored.
Discover magazine’s Discoblog brings to light a study linking the feeling of being bored with the feeling of entitlement: “All people have to complete dull […]
Scientists and Manchester band create world’s most relaxing song.
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 […]
Humans: The *sociable* ape?
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 […]
Noise hurts. Why?
Science explores why the noise of nails on a chalkboard is so awful: As they will report next week at the Acoustical Society of America […]
It makes, uhhh, more sense. When I, ummm…
And, according to Scientific American, when I “errr” and “hmmm” too. Those weird verbal tics help children learn: Such vocal hesitations, called disfluencies, tend to […]
Whole Foods’ Mind Control
Fast Company reveals the tricks of the trade. Literally. Supermarket giants are using subliminal suggestion and misdirection just like master magicians: For example, sales records […]