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Job Interviews Are Broken. There’s a Way to Fix Them.
APS Member/Author: Adam Grant Within the first few minutes of the interview, I knew the candidate was a bad fit for a sales position. His résumé had tipped me off: He was a math major and built robots in his spare time. Now we were sitting face-to-face in my office, but he hardly made any eye contact. When I told my boss I wasn’t going to hire him because of that, she said, “You know this is a phone sales job, right?” For decades, managers have bet on the wrong people — and rejected the right ones. The Kansas City Star once rejected an application from a cartoonist named Walt Disney. Record labels said no thanks to the Beatles, Madonna, U2, Kanye and Ed Sheeran.
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How to Stay Optimistic When Everything Seems Wrong
With the endless stream of urgent news pushing the boundaries of our mental health, it seems laughable to suggest optimism right now. Maybe you’re worried about losing your job, losing your home or losing a loved one. Maybe you already have. Maybe you’re worried about your own health, and maybe you feel helpless or doomed. Whatever it is, optimism feels like a luxury that few of us can afford. But at its core, optimism doesn’t require you to sweep those anxious, negative feelings under the rug. It’s not about smiling when you don’t feel like it. Optimism is simply being hopeful about the future, even when the present feels wholly negative.
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Over 30 Percent of Americans Have Witnessed COVID-19 Bias Against Asians, Poll Says
More than 30 percent of Americans have witnessed someone blaming Asian people for the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Ipsos survey conducted for the Center for Public Integrity. Sixty percent of Asian Americans, who made up about 6 percent of the survey’s respondents, told Ipsos they've seen the same behavior. The poll, released Tuesday, comes as advocacy groups and researchers report an alarming rise in anti-Asian discrimination. Stop AAPI Hate, an effort to track these cases, reported about 1,500 instances of harassment against Asian Americans in a one-month period since mid-March.
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Apple’s New TV Show Reconsiders the ‘Murder Gene.’ Here’s What the Science Says
The following story contains spoilers from the third episode of “Defending Jacob,” “Poker Faces.” Apple TV+'s limited series “Defending Jacob” stars Chris Evans as Andy, a respected assistant district attorney whose son, Jacob (Jaeden Martell), is accused of murder. In the third episode, Andy reveals that his own father killed someone, and is currently serving a life sentence in prison. “That’s not who you are,” Andy tells Jacob. “He’s one guy, one bad man. He has nothing to do with you.” But Jacob’s mother, Laurie (Michelle Dockery), disagrees. She remembers that Jacob was a difficult child who screamed constantly, threw things and often played too rough with classmates.
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New Content From Perspectives on Psychological Science
A sample of articles on life coaching vs. psychotherapy, ecological validity and neuroscience, the negative consequences of being tolerated, and a meta-analysis on the ironic effects of thought suppression.
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Leaders Are Crying on the Job. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
Eric Garcetti, the Democratic mayor of Los Angeles, choked back tears while discussing the coronavirus’s impact on his city. Mark Meadows, President Trump’s chief of staff, has been crying frequently in meetings with White House staff, while Andrew M. Cuomo, the Democratic governor of New York, has teared up on more than one occasion during his daily televised coronavirus briefings. After Howard Stern asked Mr. Cuomo about it — “Yes” he has cried, the governor said — a local radio show revisited the subject. “I was a little surprised by the question,” Mr. Cuomo said, noting that his father, former Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, was reluctant to admit he cried. His son was not.
