July 2017

Recent Evidence-Backed Insights On How Not To Come Across As A Jerk – And What’s Behind Them

A recent paper reported in the very useful BPS Research Digest blog suggests that people often make a bad impression because they indulge in counter-productive tactics for trying to make themselves look better. The paper, “Impression mismanagement: People as inept self-presenters” by Janina Steinmetz, Ovul Sezer, and Constantine Sedikides, lists four ‘strategies’ that people use

Stop Kidding Yourself You Can Multitask – And What To Do Instead

You may think that you can successfully juggle several tasks. In fact you may believe that you have to multitask in order to get your work done in a reasonable time. Bad luck – the weight of research is against you, and shows that trying to multitask means that you will take longer to deal

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