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By the Numbers
Studies on human development have shown that even as infants, we have an approximate sense of numbers and amounts. How does this underlie our ability to perform complex calculations? Stanislas Dehaene explores this question through
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How the Language in Job Ads Affects the Quality of Applicants
It’s the bane of every hiring manager — a deep pool of job applicants with a shallow set of skills and qualifications. But the stack of mediocre résumés doesn’t reflect a dearth in available talent
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The Culture of Meetings
Some of the biggest international mergers of the last 20 years are considered to be textbook cases of corporate failure. The 2006 merger of French telecommunications company Alcatel with New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, Daimler Benz’s
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Children’s Language Advantage
Why are children more successful at learning a new language compared to adults? Elissa Newport has devoted her career to studying human language acquisition, including the learning differences between children and adults. In her “less-is-more”
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Why Verbal Tee-Ups Like ‘To Be Honest’ Often Signal Insincerity
The Wall Street Journal: A friend of mine recently started a conversation with these words: “Don’t take this the wrong way…” I wish I could tell you what she said next. But I wasn’t listening—my
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Why baby talk is good for your baby
The Washington Post: The more parents exaggerate vowels and raise the pitch of their voices when talking to babies, the more the babies babble, new research shows. Common advice to new parents is that the
