June 2010
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“Where Barbara Ehrenreich and I agree – we’re both trying to separate wheat from...”
– —Positive psychology researcher Martin E.P. Seligman, PhD, on his differences with Barbara Ehrenreich, author of “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.” Ehrenreich says positive thinking does little good in the long run and can even do harm.
The New...
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Today’s Workplace » Capturing Wages for... →
Is time waiting for your supervisor to check your bag before you can go work time? Time between clock out and walk out - paid or not?
Interesting question…
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Nudge Blog & Employee Motivation in Cartoons |... →
I just discovered this entry on the Nudge Blog (their tagline is “improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness”). It’s an illustrated/cartoonized version of Dan Pink’s talk on what motivates employees and what doesn’t and I’ve embedded it here (below). It highlights the point that money isn’t always or the only solution. I love to see...
May 2010
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Life Isn't Hell, Comps Are... →
First, I have to apologize for my extended absence from both this site and my blog… I’ve not only been experiencing some career path type crises, but also studying for, taking, and hopefully passing comps. Comps, or comprehensive exams or qualifying exams, are what students in Ph.D. track programs take at the completion of all the course work (usually) or around the end of the third...
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Why Do Harvard Kids Head to Wall Street? « The... →
mlarson:
Very interesting article. One good bit:
The typical Harvard undergraduate is someone who: (a) is very good at school; (b) has been very successful by conventional standards for his entire life; (c) has little or no experience of the “real world” outside of school or school-like settings; (d) feels either the ambition or the duty to have a positive impact on the world (not well defined);...
April 2010
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flatacre: What the Music You Like Says About You. →
Hardly anybody would disagree that the music you listen to reveals a lot about your personality. However, there hasn’t been any scientific proof. That is, until now. Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, conducted a large study of more than 36,000 people from…
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Why We Can't Do 3 Things at Once →
infoneer-pulse:
For those who find it tough to juggle more than a couple things at once, don’t despair. The brain is set up to manage two tasks, but not more, a new study suggests.
That’s because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the medial prefrontal cortex (MFC) divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the other half on the other task. This division...
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Influence not as simple as Gladwell would have you... →
The invited talks at ICWSM were especially good this year. I want to highlight a few points from Duncan Watt’s talk and Jon Kleinberg’s talks.
Social influence makes the selection for success less predictable. In other words, judged against independent measures of quality, if an audience is influenced by knowledge of community behaviour, it will select or promote with less correlation to quality...
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15 Things You Didn't Know About the Brain →
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Words Do Hurt - Verbal Stimuli Put Our Pain Memory... →
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March 2010
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Children and Mental Illness - Living With Love,... →
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Unprecedented 25-Year Sentence Sought for TJX... →
The defense is arguing that the sentence should be reduced because the defendant has Asperger’s disorder… so weird… apparently that’s worked before. I seem to be thinking about and seeing various articles related to Asperger’s a lot more recently (and not just because of the DSM controversy).
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Hard-Wiring Happiness | Brain Pickings →
With a link to the talk at Columbia University by Srikumar Rao (of Are You Ready to Succeed? fame)
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Game Brain: Profiles: GQ →
This is what prompted Malcolm Gladwell’s response/article on concussions and the NFL.
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A Star Is Made - New York Times →
From the blog of the “Freakonomics” authors…
February 2010
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Amina Lula: Harvard Business - Please take notes... →
Thee best practice guidelines mentioned in the article below are guidelines that can be applied not only in a corporate setting, but socially as well. You can share, teach and show everything to a co-worker and in turn, get nothing. Zero results, no improvement and sometimes not even a thank you….
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smonteiro: Caregiving: an essential component of... →
Yesterday I went to see a lecture by Una McCluskey, expert in organizational psychology, on “Caregiving: an essential component of Leadership in organizations”, which showed how leadership experiences (whether positive or negative) influence the performance of the employee at the organization…
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“For a certain type of intellectual mediocrity characterized by enlightened...”
– C.G. Jung, “Psychology and Religion”
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Super Bowl spectator stress can spark heart... →
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“These studies, and more under way, are providing evidence for two important...”
– Kipling D. Williams, “Ostracism: The Kiss of Social Death” (via mister-rabbit)
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Easy = True →
b3nbrooks:
This is a great read for all marketers.
Invest in companies with names that are very easy to pronounce.
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Psychology Journal #1
missdefinition:
Journal #1: Maxim. Cosmo. Playboy. Playgirl. Elle. Men’s Health. Vogue. These magazines spend millions of dollars researching the male/female mind so that they can market to it…to you. How well do you think that they understand the male or female psyche? Do you think that you fit in the average demographic to which they are marketing? Why or why not?
In this information age,...
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Psychology Journal #2
missdefinition:
Journal #2: Paying Girls Not to Get Pregnant, July 23, 2009 by Carin Ford (higheredmorning.com)
The University of North Carolina’s come up with an unusual incentive in hopes of encouraging teen girls not to get pregnant. In an attempt to reduce the number of teen pregnancies, UNC at Greensboro is providing classes in abstinence and the use of contraceptives to girls ages 12 to...
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Three Star Leadership Blog: Hype Alert: Peyton... →
Actual insight into the reason Peyton Manning is so good at his job. Conclusion: hard work NOT magic.
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Guest Post – Jersey Shore: On Beauty and Not Even... →
Fascinating review of panel discussion of “Jersey Shore and Guido Culture” from Queen’s College. It covered sexuality and ethnicity as portrayed on “Jersey Shore” as well as more generally in today’s world…
January 2010
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Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests... →
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“Researchers at Oxford University hypothesized that playing Tetris after...”
– Ten Psychology Studies from 2009 Worth Knowing About - David Disalvo - Brainspin - True/Slant (via pianississimo)
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Top Ten Common Faults In Human Thought →
(via smoothope)
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PLoS ONE: Democrats and Republicans Can Be... →
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