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Compassion As A Business Objective: Why It Matters And How To Cultivate It
Is being a compassionate leader good for business? Think about your career. Think about the best manager or leader you ever had. What traits come to mind when considering what made these leaders exceptional? Did you describe these leaders as disciplinarians? How about fiercely competitive? Were they unpredictable, too? Chances are you weren’t thinking about any of those traits. It’s more likely you thought of descriptors such as passionate, trustworthy, calm in the face of adversity, present, connected, sensitive, service-oriented, empathetic and encouraging. Any of these could be used to describe a compassionate leader. So why are compassionate leaders so important?
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Microaggressions: What We Know and Should Know
Monnica Williams, a researcher at the University of Ottawa, discusses the study and impacts of microaggressions.
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Current Understandings of Microaggressions: Impacts on Individuals and Society
The latest issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science is dedicated to the singular topic of microaggressions: statements, policies, and environmental cues that carry racial and prejudicial overtones.
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Psych Online: Open Approaches
A series of instructor-facing videos aimed at promoting open pedagogical practices (OPP) in online psychological science classrooms. The videos are intended to introduce psychological science instructors to open pedagogy, as well as some empirically rooted ideas for implementing OPP in a virtual setting.
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Child & Adolescent Global Mental Health
This site explores current trends in the assessment and delivery of child and adolescent mental health services. An interdisciplinary group of students bring skills from psychology, social science and design to work on community based projects in the Global South.
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Health Psychology & COVID-19
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, Professor David Sherman of UC Santa Barbara conducted a series of interviews with public health workers, policy scholars, and health psychology researchers to discuss their experience and research related to this global pandemic.
