In his recent address to students graduating in English at the University of California Berkeley, author Mark Danner reflects on morality, critical thinking, and the psychology of reality creation in the current US political environment.
A study at the University of Bonn shows that when the boss keeps breathing down your neck, your motivation plummets. The psychology of trust and the psychology of working under explicit performance targets turn out to be such that managers who ‘trust’ induce, on average, a higher performance and hence earn higher economic payoffs than those who ‘control’.
Trying to lose weight, be less nervous when speaking publicly or improve in some other way? One strategy that can help is to switch your point of view from the first-person to a third-person perspective when reviewing your progress, according to a series of studies conducted at Cornell University.
What relevance do therapy or counselling or psychology have to the way we understand the broader world around us and our place in it? (Originally published October 2004.)
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