Naysayers – colleagues who see nothing but gloom – drain energy and obstruct change in almost any organisation. But do they also offer a hidden value? Quentin Millington of Marble Brook explores the root causes of doom-mongering and shows how everyone can benefit from pessimism within the team. The post Naysayers and the hidden value of workplace pessimism appeared first on HRZone.| HRZone
Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making, and they require emotional intelligence, self-awareness, restraint, diplomacy, and patience on both sides. But managers tend to view these competencies as “gifts” that one either has or lacks. The authors argue instead that they are practical skills you can learn and apply to great effect. They draw on a large body of research to identify the most common obstacles to effectively seeking and giving advice—...| Harvard Business Review
Unpack the hidden role of psychology and design in the trust economy. See the surprising aspects that built Airbnb. The post Trust by Design: How Airbnb Invited Strangers Home appeared first on Point of View.| Point of View
When a character suffers emotional pain, the brain’s response is to stop the discomfort, and often this results in a coping mechanism being deployed. Whether it’s an automatic response or a learned go-to strategy, a mechanism helps them cope with the stress of the moment or escape the hurt of it. But if the character […] The post Coping Mechanism Thesaurus Entry: Asking for Help appeared first on WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®.| WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®
“Let’s talk about what truly matters: our minds.” In this new episode of VOICES to Hear, Cassandre, a long-term volunteer at VCS, sits down with psychologist Kadir Mehmed to open an honest conversa…| VOICES
Cute Little Thing — but NOT a Gaslighter One of the words that has surged in popularity in the last four years is the word “gaslighting”. I think the reason for this is that since the pandemic, the popularity of the technique among politicians has also surged. I can remember working on timber issues back … Continue reading Gaslighting and Psychopaths – Back to Basics| It's About Empathy – Connection Ties Us Together
If you’ve ever felt your stomach turn in a moment of anxiety or felt like jumping up and down with excitement, then you’ve experienced the mind-body connection firsthand. Ellen Langer’s The Mindful Body argues that you can use this connection to take control of your health. We’ll explore Langer’s assertion that the mind and body are inextricable and discuss how this link manifests in health outcomes. We’ll also examine three limiting beliefs that shape health, including the view t...| Shortform Books
How do you know the world you see around you is real? It’s not, according to neuroscientist and entrepreneur Beau Lotto. In Deviate, Lotto explains that our brains don’t simply record the world as it is, but actively construct reality based on past experiences and evolutionary adaptations. Below, we’ll explain how our perceptual abilities don’t give us access to objective reality, as well as the evolutionary reasons why this is true. Then, we’ll outline how you can use this understa...| Shortform Books
There are many obstacles to learning but a key one I see repeatedly is: I’M SUPPOSED TO KNOW. Let’s say that you’re trying to accomplish something technical and you don’t remember how but can easily look it up, if you feel like you’re supposed to know it, you’re less satisfied with your ability to get it done. You feel like an impostor. This mindset actively discourages the act of looking up information, which is essential for learning. Imagine that you’re a web developer worki...| Programming Zen
When we talk about morality, we tend to call out who is moral or not, without defining what is moral or not. Consider two examples of how to be virtuous. Do not do to another what you do not wish to be done to you. (The Golden Rule). Injure no one; on the contrary, help everyone […]| Dr. Gerald Stein
The sky is gray today. A dash of dirt fouls the perfect blue of days long past. I remember when jets were rare, propeller planes dominated the atmosphere, and skywriters created their art overhead before dropping it into our astonished eyes. Don’t worry, I’m about to scrub the air clean and make you laugh a […]| Dr. Gerald Stein
Teachers sometimes have a gift. It involves more than just lecturing, questioning, or preaching. The instructor brings the lessons alive. Here is one brief example, which is troublesome due to the way the lesson is delivered. Nonetheless, it is powerful and relevant to the student in all of us. About Justice.| Dr. Gerald Stein
I can’t wait. Three words that get us into a lot of trouble. Especially in the hot pursuit of love. Waiting is difficult. Think of the doctor’s waiting room, or an unchanging traffic li…| Dr. Gerald Stein
It was the 27th day of Ramadan. After Fajr, it felt like any other day — ordinary, quiet — until the evening, when everything changed. We hear about the passing of brothers and sisters in Islam, but losing someone close to you is different; most people aren’t prepared for it. That day replays in my […] The post Unheard, Unspoken: The Secret Side Of Grief appeared first on MuslimMatters.org.| MuslimMatters.org
I fully retired about 4 months ago. Apparently I still have a small cadre of readers (you da best!) so I thought it’d be nice to give an update with my initial impressions. One thing to note about my situation... The post My Initial Review Of This Retirement Thing appeared first on Accidental Fire.| Accidental Fire
Here are three reasons why you’ll have better luck being the first trader to reach the sun than finding a “holy grail” for forex trading.| Learn Forex Trading With Babypips.com
Even if you’ve done your homework and executed your trade plan to a tee, there’s still a chance you will be wrong in trading.| Babypips.com
When watching street debates with the vegan activists Earthling Ed and Joey Carbstrong, it becomes apparent to me that one of the biggest barriers that they (and other activists) face is personality differences. This is because certain personality traits shape our receptivity to veganism. There are indeed general cognitive biases that can make some people… The post How Personality Shapes Our Receptivity to Veganism appeared first on Sam Woolfe.| Sam Woolfe
For over a decade, Americans’ top fear has remained the same: corrupt government officials. The post What Americans fear most in 2025 appeared first on Popular Science.| Popular Science
People make mistakes. It’s easy to let small slights slide. Yet, when we’re consistently disrespected by a colleague, friend, or family member, it can chip away at our confidence and sense of worth, bleeding into every aspect of our home, work, and social life. Luckily, it doesn’t always take a confrontation to demand respect. You …| Interesting Facts
A summarization of the main cognitive biases, relating to financial trading, combined with my own understanding.| qouteall notes Blog
Estrangement (also called cut-off or "no contact") always brings heartache and loss for everyone involved. However, when we set boundaries with kindness as our "north star," the space we create can be one of growth,| LindsayBraman.com
E-mail and voice mail are efficient, but face-to-face contact is still essential to true communication.| Harvard Business Review
Recently bullied teens with a strong sense of connectedness at school reported fewer signs of depression than those without it, a new study finds.| Science News Explores
The twenty-first century so far may seem light on major technological breakthroughs, at least when compared to the twentieth. An artificial intelligence boom (perhaps a bubble, perhaps not) has been taking place over the past few years, which at least gives us something to talk about. Before that, most of us would have named the […]| Open Culture
Yet they show higher sexual health literacy than other students The post UBCO study finds sex ed fails 2SLGBTQIA+ students appeared first on UBC's Okanagan News.| UBC's Okanagan News
Living in space is a silly stunt surprisingly similar to flying a plane for two months straight. Why is colonization unlikely? Continue reading →| Do the Math
This study suggests that policies to advance animal welfare should focus on farmers’ intrinsic motivations to continuously improve husbandry rather than participation in welfare programs.| Faunalytics
The Covid pandemic left this frontline medical worker burned out, angry, and depressed. Then she got high. The post Psilocybin Lifted Her Burden appeared first on Nautilus.| Nautilus
Linguists bust another gender myth. The post Men speak with a vocal fry just as much as women appeared first on Popular Science.| Popular Science
The physical environment of the workplace has a significant effect on the way that we work. When our space is a mess, so are we. That is certainly true from a simple logistical perspective: we lose precious work minutes every time we go searching for a lost paper on a cluttered desk. The same is true for those of us have succeeded in becoming paperless at work: one international survey showed that information workers lose up to two hours a week fruitlessly searching for lost documents. But c...| Harvard Business Review
Fear isn’t just personal—it spreads through sight, smell, and even subconsciously.| Popular Science
The Christian sex ethic says sexual relations should occur only in marriage, but that’s not the way most Americans and many Christians act. Pornography is almost rampant, and not just outside the church. Christine Emba, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of Rethinking Sex, told Russell Moore on his podcast Read more... The post What Porn Does to Us appeared first on Christianity Today.| Christianity Today
Those deep breaths can really help your lungs. The post Deep sighs are not only satisfying—they’re healthy appeared first on Popular Science.| Popular Science
Psychologists break down how the treat delights our brain and our tastebuds. The post Why foods like Dubai chocolate go viral appeared first on Popular Science.| Popular Science
The primal reflex still sparks at chills, thrills, and eerie delights.| Popular Science
A cautionary tale, and a plea for change “But are you strong enough now for a truly big fish?” —The Old Man and the Sea Have you ever had a Big Idea—an idea with the potential to transform the way people think about their society and culture? Imagine that you had such a Big … Continue reading "THE IDEA THAT GOT AWAY"| Thoughts of Stone
Women and civilizational collapse Complaints of “toxic” workplaces. Mass hiring of diversity-equity-inclusion commissars. Open-borders immigration sold to the public with tear-jerking images of refugee children. Trans mania spreading everywhere from kindergarten classrooms to corporate C-suites. Personal pronouns in work email signatures. White women kneeling in prayerful mass protests after yet another African-heritage male with … Continue reading "MISTRESSES OF MISRULE"| Thoughts of Stone
The “trans-timeline-traveler” hypothesis for UFOs ____________________________ “If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?” —Stephen Hawking In 1959, at an Anglican mission in the village of Boianai, on the north coast of the mountainous southeastern prong of New Guinea, there occurred one of the best-known examples of what the UFO … Continue reading "TOURISTS FROM THE FUTURE"| Thoughts of Stone
Why most planetary civilizations collapse I didn’t get into video games until I was in my 40s. Oddly enough, it was a historian who triggered my interest. Niall Ferguson, the bestselling author, columnist, TV personality and Stanford professor, penned a 2006 New York Magazine piece, “How to Win a War,” that persuasively extolled the … Continue reading "THE LAST HISTORY AND THE END OF MAN"| Thoughts of Stone
A hypothesis about the origin of some female psychological traits One of the traits that women seem generally willing to acknowledge as their own is a greater affinity for “inclusivity” and the related “equity.” In other words, compared to the average man, the average woman seems to have a stronger preference for a society … Continue reading "WOMEN, INCLUSIVITY AND THE PALEOLITHIC"| Thoughts of Stone
The Great Awokening as a social mania In prior essays on this site and elsewhere, I’ve argued that the spread of wokeness and its recent marked intensification (the “Great Awokening”) is best seen as a social contagion—of feelings and sociocultural ideas that broadly reflect women’s maternal instincts, and are much more transmissible among women than … Continue reading "A SPIRALING FRENZY"| Thoughts of Stone
The West’s—and the Right’s—shame World War II ended less than two decades before I was born, yet I’ve always felt that it belonged to much more distant age—set off from modern existence by its different ways of thinking and doing, different patterns of speech and dress, grander scale of horrors and heroism, even the … Continue reading "I STICK MY NECK OUT FOR NOBODY"| Thoughts of Stone
Terminal demoralization, the Fermi Paradox, and the true “end of history” “What is it, then, that this craving and this helplessness proclaim to us, but that there was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from … Continue reading "THE DESPAIR TRAP"| Thoughts of Stone
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires healthcare providers, including many psychologists, to implement thorough safeguards for protected health information. With penalties ranging... The post HIPAA Compliance for Psychologists and Online Psychology Platforms appeared first on GDPR Local.| GDPR Local
Some AI papers have a finding so good you just want to quote it everywhere. But many turn out to be trash. They’ve got bad statistics, they’ve got bad methodology, they’re really sales pieces, or they just don’t prove their claimed result. If you see a finding you love, you can’t skip reading the paper […]| Pivot to AI
Psychology is the fifth most popular major in undergraduate collegiate studies. The undergraduate level gives students a broad understanding of the field, but for most psychology related work a graduate degree is required. Graduate degrees help the student focus on one particular area of the field. It is important for students to understand their options […] The post Top 30 Psychology Blogs appeared first on Online Psychology Degree Guide.| Online Psychology Degree Guide
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Brands that utilize data-driven marketing strategies stay ahead by delivering experiences that resonate with their customers. Whether you’re refining your current data marketing efforts or building a new framework, these data-driven marketing insights will help you align strategy with real customer needs. The post From Data to Strategy: Understanding What Drives Modern Marketing appeared first on Social Hospitality.| Social Hospitality
Demagogues use rhetorical tricks to manipulate people.| Insight
You see it in animals all the time. The proverbial “deer in the headlights” where a creature is so overcome by a state of paralysis that they do nothing. Unfortunately, people do this too, and it is important to understand this so that you can overcome your freeze response. The freeze response is an involuntary ... Read more The post How to Handle the Freeze Response: Conquering Your Fear appeared first on Happier Human.| Happier Human
Humans are social beings, or so we’ve come to learn. Yet, psychologist Carl Jung found a way to figure out why one group of people has a tendency to be more social than others. The less socially-inclined group is called introverts, while those who are more outgoing are called extroverts. According to VeryWellMind, introverts make up an estimated 25% to 40% of ... Read more The post Are You an Introvert? 17 Signs You Are Introverted appeared first on Happier Human.| Happier Human
Navy SEALS are some of the most highly trained military professionals on the planet. Very few people make it through the training to become special operations ready. It takes more than just elite physical capabilities; it takes focus and a disciplined mindset. In a 2025 article for National Geographic, Errol Doebler, a former Navy SEAL, expressed that the robust skill set he gained through his military training had incredible value when put to good use in his daily life as a father and husban...| GOOD
A survey reveals an unusual combination of high compassion satisfaction and high secondary traumatic stress scores in animal shelter staff across the U.S., suggesting the need for resources to mitigate the impact of job-related stress. The post Compassion Under Pressure: A Study Of U.S. Animal Shelter Staff Well-Being appeared first on Faunalytics.| Faunalytics
Vishwasri Aleti describes her UTulsa experience with one word: engagement. Since her freshman year, she’s made it a priority to get involved, joining multiple organizations to build genuine connections with the community. Now a graduate student in the industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology program, Aleti has found a career path that allows her to sharpen her analytical […]| The University of Tulsa
Simon Gilbody talks loneliness at work Professor Simon Gilbody is a psychiatrist and clinical epidemiologist at the University of York. His work specialises in ‘taking a population approach to mental health’, trying to understand the aspects of modern life that contribute to how we feel. I was impressed by a talk that Simon did with...| Eat Sleep Work Repeat
This is a sponsored episode brought to you in association with Deliveroo for Work. Spencer Walker is the global director of Deliveroo for Work. The podcast has returned several times to the idea of food as a cultural trigger, something that catalyses connection and allows cohesion. We explore that idea further this week with Spencer...| Eat Sleep Work Repeat
Therapist Dr. Michael J. Salas has a website which makes the claim: 28.16% of adults claim to have at least one intimate or romantic relationship with an AI. Michael Salas, Artificial Romance: A Study of AI and Human Relationships, Vantage Point Counselling Service, 2025 There's multiple other related statistics along with a discussion on the webpage. The same page describes the methodology as: We surveyed 1,012 adults living in the United States about their interactions and relationships wit...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
As this article by the London School of Economics states, there is a "popular belief that marrying young leads to divorce." In support of this claim, the same article notes that: "Previous research from the USA has demonstrated consistent findings of a negative association between the age at first marriage and the risk of divorce, which researchers have similarly observed in urban China." However, the article is about a 2023 study (Garcia-Hombrados, J. and Özcan, B., 2023), which claims ther...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
From a NY Post article: Kit Maloney, the founder of O’actually, a feminist porn production company, said that “masturbation [and] orgasm is like meditation. It allows the space for the brain to quiet and that means you’ll be more focused and effective with your to-do list afterwards.” Now you can obviously dismiss it as not the claim of scientist, and I can see that it would be rather impossible to come up with "placebo mastubration" for a double blind study, but anyhow, is there a ke...| Recent Questions - Skeptics Stack Exchange
Yann Phesans interrogates the concept of therapeutic neutrality, combining personal history and clinical experience to offer an alternative.| the polyphony
What if the secret to boosting productivity isn’t stricter rules or higher pay, but something as simple as giving workers a voice? Sherry Jueyu Wu shares a field experiment from the production floors of a Chinese factory, which asked whether participatory meetings – in which workers spoke and supervisors listened – could increase productivity. The … More Giving Workers a Voice Boosts Productivity| Behavioural Public Policy Blog
Researcher Deanna Barch, a professor at WashU, has received a lifetime achievement award from the Association for Psychological Science. The post Barch earns lifetime achievement award from psychology group appeared first on The Source.| The Source | Washington University in St. Louis
If Nāgārjuna, the great Madhyamaka Buddhist philosopher, is known for anything, it’s his doctrine of the emptiness (śūnyatā) of all things. But in his most famous work, Nāgārjuna warns his audience about emptiness: “Misperceived emptiness ruins a person of dull intelligence, like a snake wrongly grasped.” (MMK XXIV.11) If you know how to pick up a poisonous snake properly, you can move it to a place where it will do less harm, or even milk it to help produce an antidote. But if y...| The Indian Philosophy Blog
I have lots of talks and shows coming up soon. Meanwhile, here are two podcast interviews that I did recently. ….… Read More New Podcast Chats| Richard Wiseman
What if the secret to lasting fitness isn’t willpower or discipline, but rediscovering the natural joy your body was designed to feel during movement? In The Joy of Movement, Stanford psychologist Kelly McGonigal challenges everything we think we know about exercise by revealing how our brains are evolutionarily wired to find movement rewarding—not punishing. Whether you’re someone who dreads the gym or you’re seeking a deeper understanding of why some activities feel naturally energi...| Shortform Books
What is the world’s biggest problem? Perhaps it is our inability to keep up with it. The world, I mean. Inventions are often touted as a means to save time. Conveyor belts in factories drive assembly lines, while escalators and elevators transport people up and down. Inventors built cars, trains, and planes to make life […]| Dr. Gerald Stein
I called a man I didn’t know. The reason doesn’t matter. When no one answered, I left a message, but not before hearing the cleverest recorded invitation I’ve ever encountered. It…| Dr. Gerald Stein
How do business executives make crucial decisions? Often by relying on their keen intuitive skills, otherwise known as their “gut.” But what exactly is gut instinct and how does it work? Scientists have recently uncovered some provocative clues that may change the way you work.| Harvard Business Review
Discussing which jobs will be replaced around the campfire Last fall, I went camping with several other families from my neighborhood. As we sat around the fire the conversation turned from Sam Altman’s ouster at OpenAI to what the AI revolution will mean for us more generally. We had lawyers, professors, therapists, architects, designers, teachers…| mattlumpkin
Over and Under thinking On my walk this morning I was talking to my friend and linguist, Luke Wakefield, and I had an insight. For most of my life I’ve been deeply curious about how things work: everything from electronics to religion. I make models of the world to best fit the data of what…| mattlumpkin
Or, how remote work can trick you into feeling more stressed than you need to There is no trash can or recycling bin in your computer, just different ways the system tags files. But the useful fiction of the recycle bin interface lets us know what to expect about files we put there even if…| mattlumpkin
One night last week, as I was falling asleep, in my head I told myself – as I’ve done before – I don’t want to have weird or bad dreams, I want to have fun dreams. I’ve done this as my intention before going to sleep, as I’ve kind of convinced myself that this intention-setting does… The post Remembering Dreams While Falling Asleep appeared first on Sam Woolfe.| Sam Woolfe
Note: ‘Encounters with Autism’ is an essay that’s been sitting in my drawer for a couple of years. It’s formatted and styled slightly different to my normal practice here, b…| Death is a Whale
Gottman's 4 Horseman reimagined as a playful visual resource| LindsayBraman.com
Should We Bring the Dead Back to Life? Recently “griefbots” have become common, allowing people to chat with simulations of dead loved ones.| Nautilus
Daniel Pallies, a philosophy postdoc at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, recently wrote a blog post entitled “The inexplicable appeal of spicy food”. Pallies, from his bio, indicates th…| Love of All Wisdom
When people are stressed out and focus on the negative, they are more likely to treat their colleagues poorly. And many managers are at a loss when it comes to preventing uncivil and toxic behavior on their teams. New research on gratitude practices shows that encouraging colleagues to express thanks and focus on what they are grateful for can decrease mistreatment on a team. The authors’ recent study found that gratitude journaling decreased workplace rudeness by enhancing research partici...| Harvard Business Review
“Do superheroes exist in the real world?”my son asked after I finished reading the last line and closed the book. “Yes! Well, not exactly like in your comics, but there are people who act heroically even when no one is watching.”I responded, trying to sound convincing. “But where are they?” his eyes glared like he […] The post Optimization for Pleasure and Lack of Direction appeared first on Durmonski.com.| Durmonski.com
In this last-ditch diptych, your crusty 89-year-old literary grandaddy completely changes tack, holding forth on the biggest philosophical and scientific questions of our age.| Deep Dish
This post is a romp through some of the absurd and overtly nonsensical implications of a Flat Earth model. Let it be a lesson to us not to base belief on what we want to be true. Continue reading →| Do the Math
Power is like heroin. One little bit and you’re hooked. For some people, at least. We can grasp how dictators go mad – the paranoia, the real and deadly threats posed by enemies, the lack of honest feedback, the lady bodyguards with benefits, the obsequiousness from everyone around. What amuses me more is those people […]| SovietMen
*In the last couple weeks, most of you have likely witnessed video of at least two murders (Charlie Kirk and Iryna Zarutska). I intentionally avoided watching both videos. Do you think it’s good for our psychology that we are able to witness countless murders with the click of a mouse or a swipe of our […]| Active Response Training
In my formative years as a tech entrepreneur, Paul Graham (cofounder of YCombinator), wrote a seminal essay entitled: Be Good. Most tech folks have| SparkToro
AI is trapped in Plato’s cave. It is trapped in a world made of words. Words that exist as a …| qwerky science
Over the last few years, a horrifying idea scratched at the back of my mind. Could morality be a path …| qwerky science
Sure, this advice is simple as all hell. Maybe offensively so. But some of us need to hear this. Me …| qwerky science
Fate summoned me to the deepest core of true America, alligators, shotguns, and all (citation refused). Through the power of …| qwerky science
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the prophet of your future and your fate. Time is ticking and the …| qwerky science
What you need to know to be wildly rich and famous beyond comprehension. You could take over the world if …| qwerky science
No, I’m not gone, but simply vacant in my online endeavors. I’ve been writing way much, a lot, nearly a …| qwerky science
Will I ever be human again? I long to be human, like before. Is this merely a phase? A transition? An inevitable component of our development? First, we are innocent children. Then, the competitive…| qwerky science
Uncertainty. Do you endure it, bend it to your will, or let it consume you whole? Do you shrink in its presence hoping it'll pass you by and knock on someone else's door?| BEEW
Difficult as it may be to remember now, there was a time when Meryl Streep was not yet synonymous with silver-screen stardom — a time, in fact, when she had yet to appear on the silver screen at all.| Open Culture
Therapy referrals may be on the decline for many therapists. Here are three possible reasons why, with solutions for each.| Psychotherapy Notes
Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).| Articles of Interest
Attention spans are evolving. People are quick to scroll past content that doesn’t resonate, but they’ll spend minutes (or hours) with content that feels relevant, personal, and valuable. The key is to meet your audience where they are: hook them quickly, deliver value consistently, and show the human side of your brand The post What Shorter Attention Spans Mean for Marketing in 2025 appeared first on Social Hospitality.| Social Hospitality
Last Updated on September 16, 2025 by Avia Let me ask you. Do you ever have a melodic bleary wakey-wakey moment? That moment when you’re … The post Why Are Songs Stuck in My Head? A Guide to Earworm Meaning, Memory, & More appeared first on Whats-Your-Sign.com.| Whats-Your-Sign.com
Dr. Keith Witt traces how dopamine-driven evolution shaped human consciousness from ancient seafood consumption that triggered civilization's "Big Bang" 80,000 years ago to today's hyper-stimulating culture that exploits the same neurochemical reward systems for profit. While our dopamine-flooded modern world creates unprecedented pathologies like addiction and isolation, it also sets the stage for the next evolutionary leap: conscious integration of our reward systems with relational wisdom ...| Integral Life