Posts tagged with: Neuroscience
How having power is like having brain damage: a new book explains why systems fail (2018)
'Meltdown. Why our systems fail and what we can do about it', Clearfield, C., & Tilcsik, A. Atlantic Books, 2018. Excerpt via The Star, 1 April 2018. A new book,...
Putin: The New Tsar
Aired recently on BBC 2, Putin: The New Tsar tracks the extraordinary rise of an ex-KGB colonel to Boris Yeltsin's successor. The documentary contains commentary throughout by Professor Ian Robertson, Founding...
Are you a toxic boss? If your team won’t tell you, neuroscience will (2017)
"Absolute power does, in fact, corrupt absolutely." Hogshead, S. Founder & CEO 'How to Fascinate' Inc., November 17, 2017 Image: Pexels "Confidence can be perceived as aggression by employees. Confident...
The psychological structure of humility. (2016)
“..humility is uniformly operationalized as a positive, socially desirable construct… (however) we found humility takes two distinct forms, ‘appreciative’ and ‘self-abasing’…” Aaron C. Weidman, University of British Columbia; Joey T Cheng, University...
Winner and loser effects in human competitions. Evidence from equally matched tennis players. (2017)
"...among men, the winner of a closely fought tie-break had an approximate 60% chance of winning the second set, the loser a 40% chance." Lionel Page, Queensland University of Technology...
Power causes brain damage. (2017)
"When a congressional hearing flayed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for failing to stop employees setting up phony accounts for customers... he seemed utterly unable to read a room." Jerry Useem, staff writer...
Hierarchy stability moderates the effect of status on stress and performance in humans. (2017)
"High status inhibits stress responses and improves performance during stressful situations in a stable hierarchy, but boosts stress responses and carries no performance advantage in an unstable hierarchy." Erik L. Knight...
Testosterone reduces functional connectivity during the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test. (2016)
"Our findings ... reveal a neural mechanism by which testosterone can impair emotion-recognition ability…" Peter A. Bos, a, b; Dennis Hofman, a; Erno J. Hermans, c, d; Estrella R. Montoya, a; Simon Baron-Cohen, e; Jack van Honk, a, b, f Psychoneuroendocrinology,...
The psychology and neuroscience of financial decision making. (2016)
“New data from a variety of sources (is uncovering) new facts about the cognitive processes that influence financial decision-making.” Cary Frydman, USC Marshall School of Business, Los Angeles and Colin...
Do brains of managers with different leadership styles function differently in making rational managerial and financial decisions? (2016)
"...investigators are using functional neuroimaging to explore ways brain emotion reactions influence financial decision making. United Arab Emirates University press release EurekaAlert! 13 April 2016 Dr Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, UAEU; with...