Can how many hours you studied in college tell you how much you’ll get paid for the rest of your life?
a Business Insider: The researchers examined data from 1961 - 2004 on full-time students at 4-year colleges and also found a strong correlation between studying time and future earnings: "The increase in wages associated with studying grows larger over time and becomes statistically significant in later samples. By 2004, a student who had studied an hour more per week in 1981 earned a wage premium of about .6%. ... We do not claim to have proven a causal effect, but…
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Are you most creative when you’re exhausted?
st subjects were better able to solve creative problems at sub-optimal times: early in the day for night owls and late evening for morning people. Via BPS Research Digest: Are you an evening person? Guess what? Early in the day, when you're bleary eyed, stumbling about in the fog of sleepiness, you're probably at your creative peak. In contrast, if you're a morning person, then for you, the evening is the best time for musing. How come? Insight-based problem-solving requires a…
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2 Proven Tricks For Focusing Your Mind And Increasing Performance
sitive self-talk and positive mental imagery: Self-leadership theory can be described as the 'process of influencing oneself' as opposed to the influence of leaders over followers (Manz, 1983, 1986). We focus on and develop a model for a particular aspect of self-leadership - thought self-leadership emphasizing two primary elements, self-talk and mental imagery. The major thrust of this model is that employees can influence or lead themselves by utilizing specific cognitive strategies that focus on individual self-dialogue and mental imagery.…
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5 Ways You Can Make A Great First Impression
me-dropping doesn't work. Flattery and mimicry do. Trying to seem smart makes you seem stupid. What you say about others says more about you. Mistrust is self-fulfilling. Expect that others will like you and they probably will. Join over 135,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: How To Make Your Life Better By Sending Five Simple Emails How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done – 5 Expert Tips New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way…
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The Sneaky Way You Can Give Good Answers To Hard Questions
a Harvard Business Review, 11/10: The finding: People who dodge questions artfully are liked and trusted more than people who respond to questions truthfully but with less polish. The study: Todd Rogers and Michael Norton showed subjects different videos of a political debate. In the first, one of the candidates answered the question asked. In the second, he dodged it by answering a similar question. In the third, he dodged it by answering a completely different one. When the candidate answered…
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How much of your behavior is unconsciously determined by your surroundings?
great deal of it, potentially. People primed with ideas (like "rudeness") demonstrated those behaviors more readily (interrupting the experimenter) without realizing it: Previous research has shown that trait concepts and stereotype become active automatically in the presence of relevant behavior or stereotyped-group features. Through the use of the same priming procedures as in previous impression formation research, Experiment 1 showed that participants whose concept of rudeness was printed interrupted the experimenter more quickly and frequently than did participants primed…
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Does leadership matter?
ere's a strong argument that in most cases leaders don't make much of a difference and that results are more due to the team: Leader succession studies show that managerial change has little impact on team performance. In general, these studies support a skeptical view of the significance of organizational leaders (Thomas, 1993, pp. 126–128). Hogan et al. (1994, p. 494) claim that “some coaches can move from team to team transforming losers into winners is, for most people, evidence…
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What are science based tips for increasing your ability to learn?
a Robert A. Bjork at APA: ON TAKING NOTES “In taking notes in class and from readings, to the extent possible, try to listen or read the entire idea, then write down notes based on what you’ve heard or read. Often we are tempted to write quickly to get down as much as possible while the professor is speaking or while we are reading paragraph by paragraph. Waiting to write down notes until the entire ‘idea’ has been presented can…
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