Why People Wait 10 Days to Do Something That Takes 10 Minutes
I’m trying to construct an alternative theory of myself in which I’m a tidy person. It’s not going well. Walking my recycling from my apartment to the trash room down the hall takes me anywhere from...
View ArticleWant To Stifle Your Team’s Creativity? Do These Things
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy...
View ArticleNetworking May Not Pay Off for Everyone
For many professionals, business lunches, conferences, and connections on LinkedIn are exhilarating ways to advance their careers. For others, they’re draining distractions. But is networking a vital...
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Turtle, Task Ninja, or Time Waster? Who Cares? Traditional Task-Completion Strategies Are OverratedLisa Vangsness and Michael E. YoungIndividuals who initiate tasks as soon as possible...
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Sex Differences in Mate Preferences Across 45 Countries: A Large-Scale ReplicationKathryn V. Walter, Daniel Conroy-Beam, David M. Buss, et al.This research seems to support the popular perception that...
View ArticleScanning the Brain to Predict Behavior, a Daunting ‘Task’ for MRI
Summary: To study the brain “in action,” researchers use a specialized form of brain imaging known as task-based functional MRI (task-fMRI), which shows how the brain responds to stimuli. While this...
View ArticleHypnotic Suggestions Can Make a Complex Task Easy by Helping Vision Fill in...
Summary: New research demonstrates that hypnosis—the process of focusing a person’s attention on a specific task or sensation—can turn a normally difficult visual task into a far easier one by helping...
View ArticleHypnotic Suggestions Can Make a Complex Task Easy
Popular folklore and anecdotal evidence suggest that people in a hypnotic or suggestible state can experience sensory hallucinations, such as perceiving sounds and sights that are not actually there....
View Article4 Ways to Improve Performance: Cool New Science on Motivation
Performing well, getting things done and constantly improving are part of the human experience. People have an instinct to matter—and you want to do great things in your work and in your personal...
View ArticleHow to Save Yourself from ‘Task Paralysis’
Why is it that when you have the most to do you feel the least able to act? This sense of helplessness — also called “overwhelm freeze” — always seems to set in when you have a dozen things on your...
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