
NEW: Meetings Under the Microscope
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ScienceDaily (June 25, 2010) — Psychologists report in the journal Science that interpersonal interactions can be shaped, profoundly yet unconsciously, by the physical attributes of incidental objects: Resumes reviewed on a heavy clipboard are judged to be more substantive, while a negotiator seated in a soft chair is less likely to drive a hard bargain. |
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Wash Away Your Doubts When You Wash Your Hands ScienceDaily (May 7, 2010) That's the key finding of a University of Michigan study published in the current (May 7) issue of Science. The study, conducted by U-M psychologists Spike W. S. Lee and Norbert Schwarz, expands on past research by showing that hand-washing does more than remove the guilt of past misdeeds. |
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Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains for design and evaluation toolkit for training and learning. Cognitive Affective Psychomotor Domains Bloom's Taxonomy, (in full: 'Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains', or strictly speaking: Bloom's 'Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives') was initially (the first part) published in 1956 under the leadership of American academic and educational expert Dr Benjamin S Bloom. |
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FaceTime, the newly launched marketing body for the live events industry has unveiled the findings from the industry’s first-ever psychological study of the power of live. Using new research techniques, the findings explain how live events work and reveal the unique attributes of going face-to-face with customers as part of a sales and marketing strategy. |
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SEE ATTACHED PDF ABSTRACT We have conducted a study of meetings to gain an understanding of how conversation is affected by computer use. We videotaped five workplace meetings, noting the disruptions that occurred, and recording people’s disengagements when they performed tasks with paper or with laptops. We saw evidence that people preferred these disengagements not to exceed 10 seconds. When tasks were performed on laptops, disengagements were more likely to exceed this |
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SEE ATTACHED PDF EXCERPT: Over the last century, advances in technology have massively expanded our choice of ways to connect to each other. Nevertheless our original means of communicating – talking face to face – persists as the most immediate, natural, and universal means we have of communicating. Conversing face to face, we have at our disposal not only the full richness of our spoken language, but also a nonverbal vocabulary that includes |
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 16, 2010) — Have you ever accidentally pulled your headphone socket out while listening to music? What happens when the music stops? Psychologists believe that our brains continuously predict what is going to happen next in a piece of music. So, when the music stops, your brain may still have expectations about what should happen next. |
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In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders. |
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2009) — When someone speaks to you, do you see what they are saying? We tend to think of speech as being something we hear, but recent studies suggest that we use a variety of senses for speech perception - that the brain treats speech as something we hear, see and even feel. In a new report in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, psychologist Lawrence Rosenblum describes research examining how our different senses blend together to help us perceive speech. |