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The Trouble with Too Much Talent
Recruiting high-level talent may seem like a sure way to win, but bringing together the most talented individuals doesn’t seem to guarantee the best possible team performance.
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In Search of Human Uniqueness
Aside from sharing more than 95% of our genes, humans and great apes show striking similarities in many brain structures and functions. These biological parallels, however, bear out quite differently on a macro level. After
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Chatting Before Negotiations Benefits Men More Than Women
Psychological scientists find that a bit of schmoozing may help men—but not women—walk away from a negotiation with a better deal, as well as better long-term business relationships.
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It Pays to Be Nice
The Atlantic: Research labs, like most workplaces, come in two broad varieties: The cut-throat kind, where researchers are always throwing elbows in a quest for prestige, and the collaborative kind, where they work together for
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Intuition and Cooperative Decision Making Focus of APS Registered Replication Report Project
Editors of Perspectives on Psychological Science are now accepting proposals from researchers who would like to participate in a new Registered Replication Report (RRR) designed to replicate a 2012 experiment on cooperation and selfishness in economic decision
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How to Get People to Pitch In
The New York Times: LAST month Jerry Brown, the Democratic governor of California, issued the drought-racked state’s first-ever mandatory water reductions. “As Californians, we must pull together and save water in every way possible,” he