Haven’t Finished Your Taxes? Planning Prompts Help Turn Intention into Action
With Tax day less than two weeks away, my guess is that you fall into one of two camps.
April 06th, 2016
the psych report
March 27th, 2016
The Comfort of Conspiracy: Finding Meaning in Free Masons, Shadow Governments, and the Illuminati
We feel that we can trust you with an important secret: There is a secret group controlling the highest reaches of government, including the Federal Aviation Administration.
March 09th, 2016
Replicating the Replicators: Is Psychology in Crisis or Not?
Science recently published a critique of the findings of the Reproducibility Project: Psychology.
March 08th, 2016
The Paradoxes of Creativity: Sensitive Rockers, Mindful Daydreamers, and Celebrated Outcasts
In their new book, Wired to Create, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and author Carolyn Gregoire explore the contradictions of creativity. Creativity is never one thing or another, they find. It isn’t clean, it’s messy.
February 29th, 2016
Do Millennials Have a Lesser Work Ethic?
The collision between the Millennial generation’s expectations and reality was in full display recently, as 25-year-old Yelp employee Talia Jane wrote an open letter to the company’s CEO complaining about her job and was promptly fired.
February 22nd, 2016
The Bias Against Creativity
As Asimov declared in his famous 1959 essay on creativity and idea generation, “The world in general disapproves of creativity.”
February 08th, 2016
Stereotype Threat in Police Encounters: Implications for Miscarriages of Justice
Data from research I recently conducted with Bette Bottoms and Phillip Goff, published in Law and Human Behavior, suggest that the psychological experience of such police encounters is very different for Black as compared to White citizens.
January 30th, 2016
The Edge of Belief: Maria Konnikova on the Art of the Con
Her journey into the world of confidence men and women takes the reader to the edge of reality, belief, and trust.
January 22nd, 2016
Why Don’t People Take Free Cash?
Two economists are walking down the street. One sees a $20 bill lying on the sidewalk and says, “Look at that $20 bill!” The second economist responds, “Nah, that’s not a $20 bill. If it was, someone would have picked it up already.”
January 04th, 2016
How Delta Masters the Game of Overbooking Flights
When Delta overbooks a flight, they let their passengers decide how much getting bumped is worth. I discovered this last week when I checked in online for my flight from Minneapolis to Philadelphia.
