Assholes Who Turned Out to Be Right and Other Thoughts About Creative People
In the fog of my first couple weeks after surgery, I missed some intriguing developments. Thanks to you folks who read this blog, I got
May 23, 2010
In the fog of my first couple weeks after surgery, I missed some intriguing developments. Thanks to you folks who read this blog, I got
One of my students, Rob, just sent me a link to this video on how the design of the stop sign is ruined by a
The always insightful Wally Bock made a great comment in response to my last post, where I asked about the conditions under which performance evaluations
In this era of finger-pointing, blame-storming, and circular firing squads, no one seems to be willing to admit mistakes and language is carefully parsed to
A couple years back, I wondered aloud here if performance evaluations ought to be eliminated. This theme has been taken-up with a vengeance by Sam
Early in my career, I did a bunch of studies on the expression of emotion in organizational life. My colleague Anat Rafaeli and I studied
Last Friday, we had an opening gala for the new building (actually it is a massively reconstructed old building) that houses the Hasso Plattner Institute
"Bad is Stronger Than Good" is the title of one of my favorite academic articles, which shows that negative information, experiences, and people pack a
I was going through my email this morning and there it was, an email containing a classic sign that some vendor was promising more than
Psychology Today reports that this finding will be published in Science magazine tomorrow. The authors suggest that this happens because of the: "clean slate effect":
There is a delightful little study summarized in BPS Research that shows students who forgive themselves for procrastination in their preparation for past tests feel
One of the bad and good things about spending a couple years writing a book is the process requires writing and then deleting a huge