Stress now the norm in USA
Americans are now so used to their worst fears coming true that they are actually feeling less stressed. The national “stress level” has dropped to 5.2 from 6.2 (on a … Continue reading
My most read posts in 2011
Another year of blogging, trying to find the most interesting stuff that brings together work and psychology. As I said last year it’s a competitive market place with many excellent … Continue reading
Creativity, fear, and dishonesty
One of my favourite blogs – Psyblog – recently posted on why people secretly fear creative ideas. It seems we say we value creativity but don’t really want it. Teachers … Continue reading
Mirroring and matching undermined by thoughts of money
One of the first things taught on “How to be more persuasive” courses is how to subtly mimic your potential client or customer’s body language to make the other person more … Continue reading
Have our brains really peaked?
Researchers at Cambridge University have come to the conclusion that our brains have reached their peak and it’s physically impossible for mankind to get any smarter. This is based on … Continue reading
Decision-making and bladder control
A researcher, Mirjam Tuk, from the faculty of behavioural sciences at the University of Twente in the Netherlands won an Ig Nobel prize in medicine for her research on decision-making … Continue reading
Can you recognise emotions?
Charles Darwin’s early experiments on recognising what he called the Cardinal Emotions ie universally recognised expressions of emotions, have been recreated using the original 11 photographs. Darwin’s original research was … Continue reading
What do we know about narcissists?
I’ve posted elsewhere about people, particularly leaders, who are narcissistic but they are not all suffering from a clinically defined Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD). Although the incidence of those who are suffering … Continue reading
13th National Stress Awareness Day
The 13th NSAD with the theme of “Well-being and Resilience at Work” is now over but you can still get downloads and resources from ISMA And you can also read my posts … Continue reading
