Posts tagged with: Neuroscience
The blind leading: Power reduces awareness of constraints. (2012)
"Organizations need to anticipate the tendency of their most powerful members to leap without looking. The remedy is to surround them with people who can see other angles, or can...
The neurobiological substrates of authority: costs and benefits. (Nov 2011)
"One cost of exerting authority is that its operation may be degraded under conditions of stress ... this may be manifest in part as the 'hubris syndrome', Professor Trevor...
Neuroscience and leadership: the promise of insights. (2011)
“For the last 100 or so years, we have studied leaders’ personality, intelligence, values, attitudes and even behavior. But seldom has anyone ventured physiologically inside of leaders. Richard Boyatzis, Professor...
Relevance of neuroscience to the business environment. (2011)
"Neuroscience is highly relevant to the language and process of coaching in the executive environment. And it can be used in practical and effective ways to enhance the execution of...
The relevance of Nash equilibrium to psychiatric disorders. (2011)
"the Nash equilibrium is a prominent tool for analysing any interdependence between interacting parties. The Nash equilibrium could aptly be introduced for describing a patient’s mental health status. Tassos Patokos, National...
Domain expertise insulates against judgement bias by monetary favors through a modulation of ventromedial prefrontal cortex. (2011)
"We used the same art-viewing paradigm to test a prevailing idea in the domain of conflict-of-interest: that expertise in a domain insulates against judgment bias even in the presence of...
Differences between psychopathy and other personality disorders: evidence from neuroimaging. (2011)
"ICD-1O and DSM-IV-TR diagnostic guidelines do not list psychopathy as a distinct psychiatric entity. However, there are significant overlaps between psychopathy and DSM-IV-TR Cluster B personality disorders. Sagari Sarkar...
Oxytocin promotes human ethnocentrism. (2011)
Oxytocin creates intergroup bias because oxytocin motivates in-group favoritism and, to a lesser extent, out-group derogation. These findings .. suggest that oxytocin has a role in the emergence of intergroup conflict...
Research Café 1 (2011) – Prof John Stein: a neuroscientific perspective
"We know people have different traits: there are risk takers versus cautious people, self confident people versus doubting people... What we’re interested in as neuroscientists is how the brain (triggers) those...
Research Café 1 (2011) – Dr John Coates: hormonal influences on risk taking
"These people were not like this before the bubble, and they were not like it afterwards. Something was happening to them when they were making above-average profits that was changing...