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What really drives you crazy about waiting in line (it actually isn’t the wait at all)
The Washington Post: If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line — yes, there is such a thing — have an origin story, it’s this: It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had a problem. The tenants complained of an excessively long wait for the elevator when people arrived in the morning, took their lunch break, and left at night. Engineers examined the building and determined that nothing could be done to speed up the service. Desperate to keep his tenants, the building manager turned to his staff for suggestions.
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Showcasing Psychological Science: A Conference for High School Students and Teachers
Many initiatives promote psychological science among college students and their teachers, but their high school counterparts often are left out. To address this issue, faculty at Marian University, with the support of the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, created a conference to showcase psychological science and pedagogy for high school students and teachers in Indiana. To highlight the science of psychology, James McKeen Cattell APS Fellow Scott Lilienfeld (Emory University) and Leslie Ashburn-Nardo (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) discussed the differences between psychological science and pseudoscience.
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18th European Conference on Personality
The 18th European Conference on Personality (ECP), will be held in Timisoara (Romania), at the West University of Timisoara, July 19-23, 2016. The conference is co-organized by the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP) and the West University of Timisoara (WUT). The biennial ECP conference is among the most important events to promote and exchange the most exciting research in personality. For more information, visit the conference website. Important Dates for Submissions Submission opening date: November 15th, 2015 Submission deadline (paper, poster, symposium): February 1st, 2016 Feedback on abstract acceptance: April 15th, 2016
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Three Tactics for Tackling Unethical Behavior
Unethical behavior isn’t necessarily the price of doing business. An international research team highlights steps organizations can take to combat unethical behavior on the job.
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Virtue, Vice, and the U.S. Senate
NPR: To Aristotle, the ideal politician was a person of high virtue, one of the best and most capable members of society. Though Machiavelli also used the word "virtue" to describe his own ideal, he obviously meant something different, more akin to a paranoid, power-hungry psychopath. The contrast leads to an obvious question: Which of these two has more influence in the United States Senate? Good news: While the more Machiavellian may have power early in their careers, according to a new study, it's the courageous and wise senators who have the most influence as they move up the ranks. ...
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Why it’s good to show you’re embarrassed
The Washington Post: Maybe you asked a woman when she was due, only to learn that she wasn’t pregnant. Perhaps you accidentally "replied all" with an inappropriate remark, or walked right into a sliding glass door at a busy restaurant. We all have embarrassing moments. And in the age of the Internet, a lot of them are preserved for posterity — 50 Cent’s hilariously failed pitch at a Mets game, for example, or Katy Perry slipping over and over again in a pile of cake, and then having to crawl off stage.
