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Here's an arresting thought from a recent podcast from the BBC Radio 4 show The Human Zoo, on negotiation: "There is probably no more basic psychological principle than how we influence folk." The speaker was Professor Margaret A. Neale, who teaches courses on negotiation at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. You might find the PDF discussing her negotiating tips...
The report in The Age today that maternal depression is significantly greater four years after birth than during the first year has some alarming implications for parents; depressive symptoms in mothers are linked with worse developmental outcomes for children and higher risk of accidental injuries. A study of 1500 mothers by the Murdoch Children's Research Institute found that while 10...
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I've just bought one of the last Sony Vaio notebooks ever produced as a faster way to take notes at meetings and conferences using the bewitching personal database program, Evernote. That possibly made me more than usually sensitive to a piece in Psyblog about research carried out by two psychologists who had trouble recalling notes [GROAN] taken on a notebook...
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The popular image of psychologists probably tends towards the old cliche of "rats and stats", and jolly fascination with salivating dogs. If so, you'll probably be astonished by a couple of articles in the latest edition of the British Psychological Society's journal, The Psychologist. One, headed "For those psychologists about to rock ...", explores whether insights from psychology could help...
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In 1980, Denmark had one of the world's highest suicide rates, with 35 in 100,000 inhabitants taking their own lives. In the early 1990s, the country gathered the political will and commitment to focus on improving its system of mental health care. By 2005, the suicide rate had dropped by roughly two thirds, and last year, Denmark was rated by...
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Relationships where the woman makes more - sometimes vastly more - than the male are becoming far more commonplace these days, and sadly, according to American finance journalist Farnoosh Torabi, they are much more likely to fall apart. According to Torabi's new book, When She Makes More: 10 Rules for Breadwinning Women, husbands of these uber-wives are five times more...
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As the Abbott government promises savage cuts in spending and increased charges next week with the introduction of what seems certain to be A Great Big Austerity Budget, the British Psychological Society's journal, The Psychologist provides us with a picture of the likely impact on Australians' health and wellbeing. Many economists have challenged the supposed benefits of austerity programs, and the...
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I was fascinated by the aptness of one quote in a recent article in the Financial Times on the way major companies in high-finance world of the City of London are embracing mindfulness training as a way to relieve stress and improve clarity of thinking.With recent articles in the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review giving much more credibility to...
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According to British psychotherapist Graham Music, consumerism and the pressures of modern life are spoiling our kids, turning them into selfish, uncaring creatures who don't care about others. If he's correct, it's pretty powerful poison, because children are born altruists who delight in helping others. While they also have selfish impulses, psychologists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology...
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I spent much of the Easter break catching up on my reading - a nice blend of fiction and work-related articles. If you're a psychologist, sometimes they can be equally fascinating. I couldn't help but smile, for instance, at a paragraph in an article in a US publication, Psychotherapy Networker, by Brent Atkinson, on some of the exciting implications for...