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Even Small Distractions Derail Productivity
Interruptions don’t only take up time and increase error rates, they also degrade the overall quality of people’s work.
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How Cracking the Right Joke Benefits Salary Negotiations
Making a joke about an implausibly high salary at the beginning of a negotiation actually led to higher average salary offers.
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Why You Should Break Up With Your Smartphone During Lunch Breaks
Scrolling through apps on a smartphone might actually sap cognitive resources rather than restoring them during breaks.
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Can Personality Traits Predict Who Chokes Under Pressure?
Feeling pressure may impair performance for people who score high on measures of neuroticism, a study has found.
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Job Satisfaction Tends to Increase with Age
As we get older, does our work become more satisfying? New research illuminates an intriguing conundrum: Job satisfaction tends to improve as we get older but also tends to decrease the longer we stay at
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People Prefer Hiring “Naturals” Over Hardworking “Strivers”
When deciding which candidate to hire or what company to invest in, do we favor someone who has a history of hard work and perseverance or the hotshot with a natural talent? Findings from three
