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It's too bad Australian office managers and architects and designers don't generally listen to overseas radio programs, because in missing out on a BBC Radio 4 program called In Search of the Perfect Office, presented by Claudia Hammond, they lost the opportunity to discover just how much their choice of materials and use of space were costing them, in terms...
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Psychologists tend to have mixed views of hypnosis. On the one hand, Sigmund Freud used it with his early patients as he developed his theories on the unconscious, before switching to free association and "the talking cure". On the other hand the decidedly unprofessional antics of stage hypnotism make many psychologists more than a little wary. As the American Psychological...
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All the members of the team of Melbourne psychologists with expertise in relationships have a lot of respect for the work of John Gottman, and the insights he gained working in the so-called "love lab" at the University of Washington. Over at Psyblog, Jeremy Dean obviously shares that respect. He has posted on "The Four Things That Can Kill A Relationship Stone...
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One of the most powerful classes on Psychology Melbourne's psycho-educational "curriculum" begins this week, offering women the hope of creating a new future by learning how to write down the past. "Writing Your Life: a workshop for women" is a three-week workshop (Thursday evenings 6pm to 7.30pm) led by Dr Miriam Grossbaum. Miriam gained her doctorate in counselling psychology while...
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We couldn't help hoping, reading an article in one of the weekend newspapers this morning about the devastating effects on business of unresolved workplace conflicts - they can chew up 20 to 30 per cent of managers' and supervisors' time - that the Australian Psychological Society's Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program gets the enthusiastic support of Australian employers. The fact is...
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Last week's program on ABC Radio National's Life Matters which looked at research by sexologist Elaine George on declining sexual desire among many Australian men - largely the result of stress and fatigue - probably won't be too much of a surprise for anyone who has struggled to maintain the elements of a healthy personal and family life while coping...
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Helping businesses sort out thorny issues is all in the day's work for Psychology Melbourne's corporate psychologists. Here's one that was tossed up by The Age yesterday: "Should someone resign when an office romance turns toxic?" One of our corporate experts, Warrick Arblaster, was able to tell the journalist just how common the issue of office relationships is - between...
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There's something quite arresting about the latest post in the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog, which details the results of research carried out by Michael Parks, R.B. Felsom, D.K. Osgood and K. Graham from Penn State University's Department of Sociology and Criminology into the precise conditions under which bystanders were likely to intervene in bar-room brawls. The team trained...
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You've probably never thought of will power as a muscle, but according to psychologists researching the science of self-control, it is a highly appropriate analogy: like muscles, will power can be exhausted by over-use, but exercising it frequently can make it stronger and more resilient. We came across a fascinating study of the psychology of will power - or what...
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So you think your spouse could do with a little good advice? Psychologists at the University of Iowa, reported in the Wall St Journal, have some advice for you: you might want to withhold your wisdom. They followed 100 couples for the first seven years of marriage, and in a series of six studies found that both husbands and wives...