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People Love Working with Extraverts, Until the Going Gets Tough
The same qualities that led to an “extravert advantage” when teams functioned smoothly led to exacerbated tensions when teammates faced conflicts.
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Working With Jerks Could Be Screwing Up Your Relationships
New York Magazine: There’s more to the relationship between your professional and personal life than setting a witty “away” message when you finally go on vacation. Like Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer would say, acting like
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How Rude Co-Workers Can Mess Up Your Marriage
Having to work with rude or disrespectful colleagues can take a toll on an employees’ family life, according to new research. An international team of psychological scientists led by Sandy Lim of the University of
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When Looking Like a Leader Derails the Group
Experiments show that people who display the powerful, confident body language associated with leadership tend to dominate decision making—even when their ideas were entirely incorrect.
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It’s About Time
From reminiscing about the past, to scurrying to work to be on time, to planning for retirement, time affects our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors on a variety of levels. In a cross-cutting theme program, “The
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Successful Teams Get (Physiologically) in Sync
When people work together well, their physiological responses begin to sync up, according to new research from a team of psychological scientists from Aarhus University. The research showed that team members who had synchronized skin
