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Work Meetings Are Terrible. Here’s How to Make Them Better.
When trying to understand why meetings suck so hard, it can help to use the analogy of our rapidly depleting fisheries. Fisherman don’t really have any incentive to stop fishing, and countries can’t quite agree
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Psychological Science Can Make Your Meetings Better
Meetings are the bane of office life for many professionals but they don’t have to be, a team of scientists finds.
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APS Fellow Carsten de Dreu Receives Spinoza Prize
APS Fellow Carsten de Dreu, a professor of social and organizational psychology at Leiden University, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize.
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Employees in Open Offices Are More Active, Less Stressed
Digital tools afforded by smartphones and activity trackers allow researchers to study real-world behavior as it happens in the moment.
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You 2.0: Dream Jobs
Why do you work? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on what your job is. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University finds it may have more to do with how we think about our
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Three essential skills for setting work-life boundaries
Ample research suggests that giving yourself time to recharge—separate from email, Slack, social media, etc.—improves happiness, health, and productivity. But even if you know that, communicating such boundaries to demanding colleagues and clients can be difficult
