Strategies to boost staff performance and morale by manipulating our desire for meaningful work often achieve the opposite effect – damaging organisations and alienating employees – according to a new study co-authored […]
Workplace Alienation
Electoral Shocks Usher In A Wave Of ‘Intense Voter Hostility’
The two major political events on the world stage in 2016 – Brexit and the election of Donald Trump – have ushered in a new phenomenon: intense voter hostility towards people with […]
Leaders And Managers Should Be Taught How To ‘Love’ Their Staff
Some 80 per cent of managers think leaders and managers should be taught how to be compassionate, to genuinely care for and to be considerate towards their staff. This is one of […]
NASA Selects Two Missions To Explore The Early Solar System
NASA has selected two missions that have the potential to open new windows on one of the earliest eras in the history of our solar system – a time less than 10 […]
Disgust Means Way Of Communicating Moral Motivation
New research carried out by psychologists at the University of Kent has shown for the first time that a decision to express disgust or anger depends on the motives a person seeks […]
Bacteria Spread Infection In Plants By Manipulating Water Level In Leaves
HHMI researchers identify the mechanisms that pathogenic bacteria use to waterlog the space between plant cells in the leaves, allowing the bacteria to reproduce and spread infection. Pathogenic bacteria can take advantage […]
Five Steps To Become More Confident And Assertive (Columbia Business School)
Multiple times every day, people in homes and offices across the country are faced with a daunting decision: do I speak up and risk being penalized by or embarrassed in front of […]
Detecting Weather On A gas Giant Exoplanet
Signs of powerful changing winds have been detected on an exoplanet 16 times larger than Earth, according to a team involving UCL scientists. It’s the first time that weather systems have been […]
Physical Activity, Even In Small Amounts, Benefits Both Physical And Psychological Well-Being
The largest-ever smartphone-based study examining the relationship between physical activity and happiness has found that even minimal levels of activity can have a positive effect on happiness. A new study, based on […]
Does Tinder Lead To More Casual Sex? (KU Leuven Research)
Do people have more casual sex because of Tinder? Doctoral student Elisabeth Timmermans set out to find the answer: “One in two users already met one of their Tinder matches in real […]
Relationships And Good Health The Key To Happiness
Most human misery is due not to economic factors but to failed relationships and physical and mental illness. Eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20% while eliminating poverty would reduce […]
Conservationists Widen Toolkit For Predator Management
Top predators like wolves, bears, lions and tigers have declined dramatically around the world over the past century. One major driver of these declines is retaliatory killing by people following predator attacks on […]
Companies’ Efforts To Build Strong Relations With Stakeholders Can Prevent Crises And Lessen Their Financial Impact, According to New Research from NYU Stern
Variations in stakeholders’ perceptions explain why some negative news events pass unnoticed while others spark crises From the Dakota Access Pipeline to EpiPen’s profit margins to water supply issues in Flint, Michigan, […]
Close To Home: Why You Are More Likely To Donate To A Local Charity Than A Distant One
New study finds that people are more willing to take action for nearby causes than for distant beneficiaries. Whether you are being asked to contribute to a foreign country’s tsunami relief fund […]
