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Books to Check Out: May/June 2014
To submit a new book, email [email protected]. Clueless: Coaching People Who Just Don’t Get It (2nd ed.) by Sandra Mashihi and Kenneth Nowack; Envisia Learning Inc., 2013. Coming to Our Senses: Perceiving Complexity to Avoid
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The Society of Experimental Psychologists Meets at UCLA
The 109th Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP) was held at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), April 10–12, 2014. Barbara Knowlton of UCLA served as chair of the event. At
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Psychology Needs to Take Scientific Method Seriously
In this brief commentary, I propose an important reform: that psychological scientists should take scientific method seriously. By this, I mean that they should be knowledgeable about, and be guided in their research by, theories
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Achieving Diversity
Psychological research has shown the value of diversity in improving the quality of decisions while also promoting social and cultural goals of providing equal opportunity regardless of social-group membership. Although we generally think of diversity
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The Psychology of Messiness: How Disorder Can Make You More Creative
Inc.: There’s a general assumption–in homes, in workplaces–that neatness corresponds to productivity. It begins in elementary school, with the annual rite of buying school supplies. You have the intent of staying organized, subject by
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Clashing Over Office Clutter
The Wall Street Journal: All nine employees of TheSquareFoot.com in New York City have neat, clean desks—except one. Co-founder Jonathan Wasserstrum’s desk and the floor around it are strewed with paper, files, tech gear and
