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Width of CEO’s face can predict the company’s success
Yahoo India: Washington, August 26 (ANI): Want to know how successful a company will be? Well, just look at the width of its CEO's face. A new study has concluded that CEOs with wider faces, like Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest Airlines, have better-performing companies than CEOs like Dick Fuld, the long-faced final CEO of Lehman Brothers. Elaine M. Wong at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her colleagues Margaret E. Ormiston of London Business School and Michael P. Haselhuhn of UWM, based their analyses on photos of 55 male CEOs of publicly-traded Fortune 500 organizations.
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Four Loko Is Just Like The Copenhagen Philharmonic
Scientific American: It’s an ordinary afternoon at Copenhagen Central Station. At 2:32pm, a man who appears to be a run-of-the-mill street performer sets up a drum in the center of a large hall. A cellist joins him. A woman approaches with her flute. The melody is sort of recognizable… It sounds sort of like Ravel’s Bolero. Pretty cool jam session, right? Then the clarinet and bassoons and all the rest of the instruments start playing. People pull out their cell phones and record video. Fathers and children take a seat on the tile floor to listen. Mothers with strollers slow down to watch.
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Math anxiety? Study examines nerves by the numbers
msnbc: If the prospect of calculating a tip on a dinner bill with family or friends looking on makes you panic, listen up: Your subpar knack for numbers might not always be the problem, suggests a new study. It may well be that your mind gets in the way of your true ability. Your fears of doing math in a pressure-filled situation cause you to worry and perform poorly. The new report, published in the journal Emotion, looked at the reasons why some students succeed on a math test while others flounder. Scientists measured working memory capacity, a mental scratch pad that temporarily stores and processes information, in 73 college students with low and high levels of math anxiety.
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7 Easy Ways You Can Improve Your Memory Now
USA Weekend: Nearly every day it seems, researchers discover new details about the intricate workings of the human brain. In laboratories across the U.S. and abroad, neuroscientists are pinpointing the specific areas of the brain that are involved in memory, learning and other routine cognitive tasks, and identifying techniques that may help us improve those skills.We culled the most recent research and talked to top experts in the fields of cognition and aging to come up with the latest advice on what you can do to improve your memory, no matter what your age. Does the list of things you find yourself forgetting seem to grow longer by the day?
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Post-Jobs Apple: New research shows Cook will do fine
The Register: Forget about your Ivy League/Oxbridge/Harvard business school education, your connections or how many millions in personal funds you can plough into the business: the one thing you really need as a CEO is a big face, at least according to a new study to be published in journal Psychological Science. Elaine M Wong of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her colleagues analysed photos of 55 male CEOs of publicly-traded Fortune 500 organisations and found that chiefs with a wider face, relative to face height, had much better firm financial performance that those with narrower faces.
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Are There Hidden Messages in Pronouns?
Slate: Some 110 years after the publication of the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, in which Sigmund Freud analyzed seemingly trivial slips of the tongue, it's become common knowledge that we disclose more about ourselves in conversation—about our true feelings, or our unconscious feelings—than we strictly intend. Freud focused on errors, but correct sentences can betray us, too. We all have our signature tics. We may describe boring people as "nice" or those we dislike as "weird." We may use archaisms if we're trying to seem smart, or slang if we'd prefer to seem cool. Every time we open our mouths we send out coded, supplementary messages about our frame of mind.
