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The most original thinkers weren’t simply better at dreaming up ideas or controlling them. Across 2,433 people, creativity was linked to how fluidly the brain shifted between spontaneous thought and deliberate evaluation—a rhythm general intelligence

about 2 hours ago

The romantic version of creativity begins with surrender. Stop controlling the mind...

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Becoming an early riser is less about one burst of willpower than repeatedly following the same routine. In a landmark habit study, daily behaviours took a median of 66 days to become largely automatic—but individual estimates ranged from 18 to 254 days

about 4 hours ago

An alarm can be moved from 7am to 5.30am in a few...

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More than six in ten of the Americans and Chinese in a preregistered survey said people have grown less cooperative across a sixty-year span, a belief the authors set against two cross-temporal meta-analyses reporting rises in cooperation in laboratory so

about 5 hours ago

Sixty-five per cent of the American respondents and 62.1 per cent of...

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1,339 teachers were each shown a student’s exercise with a wrong mark already on it, and the ones told an algorithm had set the mark finished further from the fair grade than the ones told a colleague had — but only where the mark was too harsh, with

about 9 hours ago

A teacher in Greece opens a survey link and finds a student’s...

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Grant, Gino and Hofmann’s 2011 research found that less-extraverted leaders got better results from proactive teams—not because they adopted more employee ideas, but because their receptiveness made employees feel valued and work harder.

1 day ago

The qualities that help someone look like a leader are not always...

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Psychology says people who feel invisible after 70 aren’t experiencing the world accurately — they are often experiencing, for the first time, what it feels like when a lifetime of usefulness finally runs out

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There is a man on my floor who waters the corridor plants...

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Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t usually passive—they found out early that being seen and being known are not the same thing, and they’ve never confused the two since

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A man in my building told me last month that he has...

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Does the cat or the dog take the edge off a bad day? A five-day study that pinged 188 pet owners at random found that under stress, interacting more with a dog went with keeping more good mood and interacting more with a cat went with more bad mood, and r

1 day ago

The pet effect is the everyday version of a research claim: that...

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Research suggests we file the strangers we deal with under the job independently of the person — in a Yale reading experiment, readers took about 213 milliseconds longer over the closing words when one customer replaced another than when one postal work

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“I need this truck moved, you’re making me late for work.” Three...

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The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US Census study of 2.7 million founders found that those behind the fastest-growing 0.1% of new ventures were 45 on average—and a 50-year-old was roughly 1.8 times as likely

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When people picture a high-growth founder, they often picture someone barely old...

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A 2014 analysis by time-tracking app DeskTime found that its top-rated 10% of computer users typically worked in 52-minute stretches followed by 17 minutes away from tracked work—nearly one-quarter of each cycle. It suggests productive workers take subs

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Fifty-two minutes of work followed by 17 minutes away from the screen...

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Research suggests how ticklish a body region is tracks how rarely it gets touched, and runs the opposite way from how densely it is wired for touch — in a survey of 448 Chinese-, Dutch- and Greek-speaking volunteers the hotspots were the armpits, the si

2 days ago

In 1897, G. Stanley Hall and Arthur Allin filled the opening forty-one...

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The most original thinkers weren’t simply better at dreaming up ideas or controlling them. Across 2,433 people, creativity was linked to how fluidly the brain shifted between spontaneous thought and deliberate evaluation—a rhythm general intelligence

Becoming an early riser is less about one burst of willpower than repeatedly following the same routine. In a landmark habit study, daily behaviours took a median of 66 days to become largely automatic—but individual estimates ranged from 18 to 254 days

More than six in ten of the Americans and Chinese in a preregistered survey said people have grown less cooperative across a sixty-year span, a belief the authors set against two cross-temporal meta-analyses reporting rises in cooperation in laboratory so

1,339 teachers were each shown a student’s exercise with a wrong mark already on it, and the ones told an algorithm had set the mark finished further from the fair grade than the ones told a colleague had — but only where the mark was too harsh, with

Grant, Gino and Hofmann’s 2011 research found that less-extraverted leaders got better results from proactive teams—not because they adopted more employee ideas, but because their receptiveness made employees feel valued and work harder.

Psychology says people who feel invisible after 70 aren’t experiencing the world accurately — they are often experiencing, for the first time, what it feels like when a lifetime of usefulness finally runs out

Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t usually passive—they found out early that being seen and being known are not the same thing, and they’ve never confused the two since

Does the cat or the dog take the edge off a bad day? A five-day study that pinged 188 pet owners at random found that under stress, interacting more with a dog went with keeping more good mood and interacting more with a cat went with more bad mood, and r

Research suggests we file the strangers we deal with under the job independently of the person — in a Yale reading experiment, readers took about 213 milliseconds longer over the closing words when one customer replaced another than when one postal work

The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US Census study of 2.7 million founders found that those behind the fastest-growing 0.1% of new ventures were 45 on average—and a 50-year-old was roughly 1.8 times as likely

A 2014 analysis by time-tracking app DeskTime found that its top-rated 10% of computer users typically worked in 52-minute stretches followed by 17 minutes away from tracked work—nearly one-quarter of each cycle. It suggests productive workers take subs

Research suggests how ticklish a body region is tracks how rarely it gets touched, and runs the opposite way from how densely it is wired for touch — in a survey of 448 Chinese-, Dutch- and Greek-speaking volunteers the hotspots were the armpits, the si

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