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Want a pay raise? Keep on the right side of your boss
Express: Be careful to stand upright next time your boss asks you how much you should be paid. If you are leaning to the left you will be putting a lower value on your worth.
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The predictably irrational NBA lockout
ESPN: Dan Ariely thinks Duke basketball fans are crazy. Or at least they act a little irrational sometimes. As a behavioral economics professor at the ACC school, he noticed something interesting — that fans who
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The Smartest Way to Overcome an Obstacle
The Huffington Post: Few important things in life come easy. Starting in school, there are days where assignments just don’t go well. That concept you thought you had nailed in class has flown from your
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The King of Human Error
Vanity Fair: We’re obviously all at the mercy of forces we only dimly perceive and events over which we have no control, but it’s still unsettling to discover that there are people out there—human beings
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APS Fellow Talks Psychological Science With the Dalai Lama
APS Fellow and Former Board member Elke Weber, Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University, and other behavioral and environmental scientists met with the Dalai Lama at the 23 Mind and Life Meeting
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Punishment without spanking
CNN: Noël Plummer can’t imagine making a conscious decision to inflict physical pain on her 8-year-old daughter as a punishment. She’s only slapped her daughter once, without thinking, when her then-5-year-old was having an enormous
