The Glossary of Happiness

Could understanding other cultures’ concepts of joy and well-being help us reshape our own?

Find the Right Words to Inspire Your Team

It’s important to understand that when you, as a leader, communicate with your team, using weaker words weakens your message and blunts your ability to inspire people. It’s not enough to just throw thoughts out there and hope for the best. You need to actively recommend ideas…

15 Years of Spotify: How the Streaming Giant Has Changed and Reinvented the Music Industry

As Spotify turns 15 this month, we look at 15 ways the streaming giant has changed, reinvented and reshaped music and the music business.

This is How to Repair a Toxic Work Culture

Feeling safe is the magic ingredient to a healthy work environment. In this article Nir discusses novel research on how to eliminate toxic work culture.

When Red Means “Go”: Color and Cultural Reactance in Risk Preferences

Color can affect judgment and decision making, and its effects may vary across cultures. Research reported in this article shows that cross-cultural color effects on risk preferences are influenced by personal associations of color-gain/loss. Our research finds a cultural…

Embrace the Grind - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Sometimes, programming feels like magic: you chant some arcane incantation and a fleet of robots do your bidding. But sometimes, magic is mundane. If you’re willing to embrace the grind, you can pull off the impossible.

Neuroscience may have a part in why you're playing Taylor Swift's songs on

Taylor Swift literally has music down to a science

FUD: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

A Visual Guide to Human Emotion

A Simple Tip for Staying Assertive in Emotional Conversations

Assertive communication is about compromise.

The truth about lying

You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work

How can you tell if someone is lying?

The conventional wisdom about how to spot a liar is all wrong.

What to Do When You Are Asking Yourself, “Is My Product Meh?”

Entrepreneurs ask themselves "Is my product meh?" when they fear making a fool of themselves. Some objectives questions to ask yourself.

Breaking Through the Uncanny Valley

In 1970 robotics professor Masahiro Mori observed, "Bbukimi no tani genshō," which was later translated into "uncanny valley". This refers to an observed phenomenon (first in robots, but also applies to digital recreations) that the more human-like the robot the greater the…

5 phrases to use to improve your emotional intelligence and relationships at work

Using responses like "tell me more" and "thanks for understanding" helps shift the focus from yourself to others and leads to better conversations.

Extrinsic Motivation: Why You Make Terrible Life Choices

The goal is to use extrinsic and intrinsic motivation in concert.

How to laugh more | Psyche Guides

You don’t have to wait to be amused, there are ways to train yourself to enjoy the ‘cheap medicine’ of laughter every day

Jon Lai on Twitter: "The best apps today are games in disguise @calm @tikto

Thread 👇 — Jon Lai (@Tocelot)

Public Speaking Nightmare: How to Shut Down Bullies and Hecklers

Five tactics to silence the person trying to make you squirm.

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The case for the argumentative theory of reason, as made by The Office

The evolutionary psychology of talking with your hands - Big Think

A team of researchers from the Netherlands found that hands gestures, when used strategically, influence how certain words are heard.

How to Build a Culture of Generosity at Work

Here are six practices to help your team ask for and give more help to each other.

If smiles are so easy to fake, why do we trust them? | Psyche Ideas

Smiles can be a way to dupe people because they’re easy to fake – but we’ve figured out which smiles can be trusted

The Ultimate Guide to Liars and Lying: Everyone Falls Into These 4 Types

What is the psychology of the liar? There are various ways of classifying lies: by their consequences, by the importance of their subject matters, by the speakers' motives, and by the nature or context of the utterance. Perhaps the most useful way to classify lies is by the type…

Veblen good - Wikiwand

A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent cont...

The Decoy Effect: How You Are Influenced to Choose Without Really Knowing I

Think you got a good deal? Look again.

Persuading the Unpersuadable

We live in an age of polarization. Many of us may be asking ourselves how, when people disagree with or discount us, we can persuade them to rethink their positions. The author, an organizational psychologist, has spent time with a number of people who succeeded in motivating…

The Real Reason Why You Sabotage Your Own Goals

How to overcome psychological reactance, the rarely-discussed psychological reflex that’s holding you back

How to be more productive without forcing yourself

Imagine you could work more and be wildly productive. And you wouldn’t need to force yourself to work.

How to have better arguments online

The long read: The troubled times we live in, and the rise of social media, have created an age of endless conflict. Rather than fearing or avoiding disagreement, we need to learn to do it well

What Drives Us to Peek into Someone's Medicine Cabinet?

What are we really hoping to find?

Dissecting the Bloodthirsty Bliss of Death Metal

Fans of this violent music report feelings of transcendence and positive emotions; psychologists want to learn why.

Interpersonal Reactivity Index - Psychology | Eckerd College

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A neurosurgeon shares his effective strategy for overcoming fears

Think about your life like an x-y axis, with four quadrants.

How To Reduce Decision Noise - Commonplace - The Commoncog Blog

Five ways to do noise reduction, from the field of judgment and decision making.

The surprising problem with ranked-choice voting

By every measure I can think of, ranked-choice voting is a superior way to hold a modern election. When a group of people want to decide something at the national or even the organizational level, …

How to be angry | Psyche Guides

Anger is a fuel that’s dangerous when out of control. But managed well, it can energise you to identify and confront problems

Navigating the mind: 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience

Psychology and neuroscience are such rapidly growing fields of research, it’s easy to get confused. If you’ve sometimes been scratching your head trying to figure out who does what, this guide is for you. We will cover 40 major fields of psychology and neuroscience using plain…

How the Brain Responds to Beauty

Scientists search for the neural basis of an enigmatic experience

Why Losing Bonds Sports Fans

A study on team loyalty among fans shows that club ranking plays an important role in how they identify with one another.

The 6 Types of Grit (And How to Develop Them)

We all want to be better than we are today. And that often requires pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone, even when you don’t feel like it. It requires getting back up and trying again and again when you fail. It requires sticking with a path long enough to see it through…

The Science of Changing Someone's Mind

Don’t try to change someone else’s mind. Instead, help them find their own motivation to change.

Sunday Firesides: Don’t Confuse Niceness With Kindness

We often use the words “nice” and “kind” synonymously. But it can be helpful to distinguish between the two qualities, as Eric Kapitulik, Marine special operator and leadership coach, does. Being nice means making people feel good in the short-term. Behaving politely. Offering a…

To Counteract Propaganda, We Should Look to Lessons from Advertising

The goal should not be conversion but doubt.

Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other

The psychological quirks that make it tricky to get an accurate read on someone's emotions

Loaded Questions: What They Are and How to Respond to Them (Effectiviology)

Carl Braun on Communicating Like a Grown-Up

Industrial genius Carl Braun believed that clear thinking and clear communication go hand in hand. Here the guide on writing productively to get things done.

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What Psychology Says About Why Bystanders Sometimes Fail to Help

The bystander effect refers to a phenomenon in which the greater the number of people there are present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress. Learn why it happens.