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The Learning Opportunities Hiding in Our Failures
Successes enjoy more attention than failures. We celebrate stories of triumph, and pore over them to extract the reasons why things went so well. Industries package the lessons and share them as tips for ‘best practice’, while after-dinner speakers regale their audiences with the steps they took to glory. By contrast, if they’re not buried completely, failures, and those who perpetrate them, are more often seen as sources of shame or ignominy. Yet it is often the errors, missteps and outright flops that contain more useful practical information on how to do things better, if only we were more willing to share and study them.
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Adam Grant on How Jobs, Bosses and firms may improve after the crisis
APS Member/Author: Adam Grant IN 1993 THE management guru Peter Drucker argued that “commuting to office work is obsolete.” As of last year, his vision hadn’t quite come true: nearly half of global companies in one survey still prohibited remote working. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly millions of people started doing their jobs from home. Work will never be the same. Yet the changes to where we work are only a small part of the story. The experiences from past recessions and crises suggest that covid-19 is likely to transform three features of our work lives: job satisfaction, ethical leadership and trust. Start with our attitudes towards work.
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NIH Funding to Study the Prevention of Dental Fear and Anxiety
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) has issued a funding opportunity for research into the causal mechanisms behind dental fear and anxiety.
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NIH Encourages the Study of Community Interventions to Address COVID-19 Consequences
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has issued a funding opportunity for research studying current and prospective COVID-19 mitigation efforts and their effectiveness and impact on health disparity populations, as designated by NIH, which face social and health vulnerabilities.
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New Content From Current Directions in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on risk for developing aggressive behavior, cultural evolution, adolescent depression, inequality among adolescents, memory and statistical learning, and how digital technologies impact emotions.
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Contracting COVID-19: Lifestyle and Social Connections May Play a Role
New research proposes lifestyle, social, and psychological factors may increase the risk of contracting COVID-19. [July 9, 2020]
