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Measure of success: Study shows width of CEO’s face can predict company’s financial performance
Daily Mail: If you are measuring indications of how well a company will perform, look no further than the shape of the CEO’s face. New research shows male corporate leaders with wider faces, such as Herb Kelleher, former CEO of Southwest Airlines, and Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric, demonstrate better financial performances than their peers with more narrow faces, such as former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld. The study, led by Elaine Wong at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, analysed photos of 55 male CEOs of Fortune 500 businesses.
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Assigning Wikipedia Instead of Term Papers
Positive Psychology News Daily: Are you a professor teaching a class on psychology — or perhaps another discipline that relies on psychology, such as management science? Are you putting the final tweaks on your course syllabus? Then consider this: Wikipedia has been shown to be the most important source of science including psychological science for the public. However, a lot of topics in psychology are presented poorly or have not been presented at all.
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CEO face shape linked to company performance
CBS News: The shape of a CEO's face can predict his company's financial performance, according to a new study in which researchers analyzed photos of 55 male chief executive officers of Fortune 500 businesses. The crucial feature: Facial width. Corporate leaders with faces that were wide relative to their length — such as Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines — tended to lead better-performing companies than CEOs with narrower faces, such as Dick Fuld, the long-faced final CEO of Lehman Brothers, the study found. This finding follows research that has shown that the ratio of facial width to height is correlated with aggression in men.
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Think You’re An Auditory Or Visual Learner? Scientists Say It’s Unlikely
NPR: We've all heard the theory that some students are visual learners, while others are auditory learners. And still other kids learn best when lessons involve movement. But should teachers target instruction based on perceptions of students' strengths? Several psychologists say education could use some "evidence-based" teaching techniques, not unlike the way doctors try to use "evidence-based medicine." Psychologist Dan Willingham at the University of Virginia, who studies how our brains learn, says teachers should not tailor instruction to different kinds of learners. He says we're on more equal footing than we may think when it comes to how our brains learn.
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Patients’ Health Motivates Workers To Wash Their Hands
Can changing a single word on a sign motivate doctors and nurses to wash their hands? Campaigns about hand-washing in hospitals usually try to scare doctors and nurses about personal illness, says Adam Grant, a psychological scientist at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. “Most safety messages are about personal consequences,” Grant says. “They tell you to wash your hands so you don’t get sick.” But his new study, which will be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this is the wrong kind of warning. Hand-washing is an eternal problem for hospitals.
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Jena McGregor On Leadership: Motivated by charity
The Washington Post: What would motivate you more: a bonus you could spend on yourself, or a bonus you had to spend on someone else? Most people, surely, would instinctively say the former. Why on Earth would I work smarter or better, or be more satisfied in my job, in exchange for something I had to turn around and give away? But a paper by researchers from Harvard Business School, the University of British Columbia and the University of Liege finds otherwise.
