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Looking for a Lesson in Google’s Perks
The New York Times: After my visit, I spoke to Teresa Amabile, a business administration professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of “The Progress Principle,” about creativity at work, and told her I had just been to Google. “Isn’t it fantastic?” she said. Some of her former students work there, and “they feel very, very fortunate to be there,” she said. As to the broader relationship between the workplace and creativity, “there’s some evidence that great physical space enhances creativity,” she said. “The theory is that open spaces that are fun, where people want to be, facilitate idea exchange.
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Des distractions pour aider la mémoire des seniors (Distraction Can Reduce Age-Related Forgetting)
Le Figaro: La mémoire est de moins en moins fiable avec l'âge, même s'il existe de grandes variations entre les individus. Autre inconvénient, peut-être moins connu, le fait que l'on se laisse plus facilement distraire à 70 ans qu'à 20 ans. Pourtant, il serait possible de contourner ces handicaps inhérents au vieillissement. Lynn Hasher, professeur de psychologie à l'Université de Toronto (Canada), mène depuis plus de trente ans des recherches sur l'évolution de l'attention avec l'âge.
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Osservare le regole? Può creare frustrazione (Observing the rules can create frustration)
La Stampa: La frustrazione non si scatena esclusivamente quando una persona non riesce a centrare un obiettivo produttivo o ad appagare un bisogno positivo. Se l’essere umano non coglie al volo la possibilità di violare una regola, barare, imbrogliare, insomma di adottare un atteggiamento controproducente e negativo, il senso di inadeguatezza si presenterà ugualmente. Lo dimostra un nuovo studio dell’Ohio State University. Si tratta della prima ricerca a concentrarsi sulla frustrazione generata dal mancato soddisfacimento delle esigenze negative. Read the whole story: La Stampa
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Mindfulness Helps Us Understand Our True Personalities, Study Says
The Huffington Post: It's easy to have blind spots when examining our own selves and personalities. After all, it's incredibly difficult to judge ourselves in an objective manner. But a new study suggests the best way to really get to know ourselves -- without help from rose-colored glasses -- is through mindfulness. The study, published in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science, shows just how mindfulness can help us really know ourselves, without the negative or positive bias. This is important because "blind spots" in knowing ourselves can spell trouble.
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Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks
The New York Times: BAD NEWS SELLS. If it bleeds, it leads. No news is good news, and good news is no news. Those are the classic rules for the evening broadcasts and the morning papers, based partly on data (ratings and circulation) and partly on the gut instincts of producers and editors. Wars, earthquakes, plagues, floods, fires, sick children, murdered spouses — the more suffering and mayhem, the more coverage. But now that information is being spread and monitored in different ways, researchers are discovering new rules.
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People perceive future events closer than past
Business Standard: People perceive events in the future as closer than those in the past, as it helps them to approach, avoid or otherwise cope with the events they encounter, a new study has found. Researchers suggest that the illusions that influence how we perceive movement through space also influence our perception of time. The findings provide evidence that our experiences of space and time have even more in common than previously thought.
