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Similarities in Human and Chimpanzee Behavior Support Evolutionary Basis for Risk Taking
Research suggests that findings about human risk preferences also apply to risk-taking in chimpanzees, our closest evolutionary ancestor in the animal kingdom.
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Top 10 Articles of 2022: Opinionated Fetuses! Cheating Spouses! And Much More
Podcast: Do fetuses care what their mothers eat? When do spouses cheat? Some of the top articles published in the APS journals in 2022 explored these questions and much more.
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2022’s Top Research Includes Flavor-Sensitive Fetuses and Less-Lonely Older Adults
The most impactful psychological science research published in 2022 reveals that new understandings of human behavior continue to resonate with wide audiences.
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Wharton Professor Adam Grant Makes Case for Four-Day Week
Executives looking to boost productivity on their teams might want to consider an experiment: cutting a day of work from the week. A four-day workweek could increase employee wellbeing while improving the pace of work inside companies, said Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit Tuesday, Mr. Grant said that when companies ran pilots of four-day weeks, many found that company performance either improved or was sustained, while employees became more focused. ...
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Want to Learn From Your Mistakes and Be More Successful? Science Says Avoid the Dreaded Ostrich Effect
I owned Blue Apron stock a few years ago. I'm unsure, but I think I purchased it at around $20 per share. (You'll see why I'm unsure in a moment.) Since I owned it in my Roth IRA, any gains weren't taxed, so for a while I made small profits selling during spikes and buying back during dips. Because I was basically day-trading the stock, I checked it multiple times a day. Then the price dropped by a few dollars a share, and then a dollar or so more. So I stopped checking so often. Soon my stake was down about 50 percent. I rationalized -- and consoled myself -- by deciding it was a long-term play, and I didn't look at it for a few months.
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The Acute Grief of a Friend Breakup
If I remember correctly, my first breakup was with a kid named Anthony sometime in the seventh grade. I’ve forgotten the specifics, but I think our friends did the dirty work for us, feverishly ferrying our directives across the middle-school hallway like carrier pigeons. I don’t remember how long we were together — three weeks? Four? — but I’m pretty sure that I cried afterwards. I know that I cried after my last breakup, this time carried out over the phone with a guy named Dan sometime in that foggy precipice between college and adulthood. There were plenty of breakups in between — a few over the phone, several in person, some fizzling out slowly, others blowing up like a grenade.
