Top 10 Assumptions People Make on your Appearance If you’re attractive, people assume you have other positive traits as well. Jason Merritt/Getty Images Thanks to a phenomenon that social psychologists call “the halo effect,” we tend to assume that good-looking people possess other positive qualities aside from their looks, such as intelligence and commitment. Daniel Hamermesh, a University of Texas…
Mindful Tricks How to Laser Focus How your brain chooses what to focus on (and how to control it) Your brain is always on and taking in information, which means it constantly has to choose what to pay attention to and what to filter out. Neuroscientists call this ‘selective attention’, and it comes in two different…
“Sorry!” I called out to my teammates during our weekly soccer game, after making a solid pass to an opposing player. A few minutes later, I was sorry again, for taking a weak shot on goal. And I was sorry once more when I let a player from the other team sidestep me to score…
How to Be More Productive at Work and Life Measuring cognitive work 1) Time pressure: How much of the available time was he focused on an activity? 2) Switches: How often did he switch from one process to the other? 3) Complexity: How complex, or routine, were the tasks that Scott was engaged in?…
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