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The Too-Much-Talent Effect: How too-much talent may hurt a team’s performance

The Too-Much-Talent Effect: How too-much talent may hurt a team’s performanceThe Psych Report [Social & Organizational] What do you get when you put Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Bosh...

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Head of White House “Nudge Unit” Maya Shankar Speaks about Newly Formed...

Head of White House “Nudge Unit” Maya Shankar Speaks about Newly Formed Social and Behavioral Sciences TeamThe Psych Report Photo: Maya Shankar delivering keynote address at the UN’s Psychology Day ast...

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Informal Biases Impede Women and Minorities at “Pathways“ Leading into Academia

Informal Biases Impede Women and Minorities at “Pathways“ Leading into AcademiaThe Psych Report Photo: Sakeeb Sabakka [Social & Organizational] Although there is ample evidence showing that women...

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The Rejected Student Who Didn’t Complain

The Rejected Student Who Didn’t ComplainThe Psych Report Photo: Petr Dosek am an enormous fan of the Milkman, Akinola and Chugh research, covered on The Psych Report, that highlighted how the implicit...

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Schadenfreude in Gaza

Schadenfreude in GazaThe Psych Report Israeli soldiers and Palestinian women meet in the street at the Jabalia Refugee Camp in Gaza in 1988. The tenuous relationship between Israel and Palestine...

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Why Governor Nixon has to remove prosecutor from Michael Brown Case

Why Governor Nixon has to remove prosecutor from Michael Brown CaseThe Psych Report The Buzz Westfall Justice Center, where on August 20th, St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert P. McCulloch...

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How Psychology Can Help Ferguson Heal

How Psychology Can Help Ferguson HealThe Psych Report Photo: Brett Myers/Youth Radio [This article originally appeared in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 5, 2014.] atching events unfolding in...

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Materially False: Q&A with Tim Kasser about the Pursuit of the Good through...

Materially False: Q&A with Tim Kasser about the Pursuit of the Good through GoodsThe Psych Report Photo: Devin Caldwell  s Madonna astutely noted in her 1984 song, we live in a material world....

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Clash: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are [Excerpt]

Clash: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are [Excerpt]The Psych Report hy does moving to San Francisco end in divorce for one Midwestern couple? Why is KIPP so successful at getting low-income...

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Coerced to Confess: The Psychology of False Confessions

Coerced to Confess: The Psychology of False ConfessionsThe Psych Report Photo: Krystian Olszanski n a spring night in 1989, a 28 year-old white woman was brutally raped and nearly murdered while...

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Chronic Stereotype Threat and Blindness: Coping With More Than Lack of Sight

Chronic Stereotype Threat and Blindness: Coping With More Than Lack of SightThe Psych Report [Social Psychology] uch is known about about how stereotype threat — the fear of behaving in a way which...

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Google re:Work: Shaping the Future of HR

Google re:Work: Shaping the Future of HRThe Psych Report Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, delivers the opening speech “Changing the Nature of Work,” at Google’s re:Work...

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Affirming Their Way to the Top: How A Small Intervention Could Help Close the...

Affirming Their Way to the Top: How A Small Intervention Could Help Close the Social Class Achievement GapThe Psych Report lmost a fifth of all undergraduate students in America are the first in their...

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Senate Report Calls CIA Tactics Inhumane and Ineffective, Details Unethical...

Senate Report Calls CIA Tactics Inhumane and Ineffective, Details Unethical Application of PsychologyThe Psych Report   he Senate Intelligence Committee’s long-awaited summary of their investigation...

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Editors’ Picks for 2014

Editors’ Picks for 2014The Psych Report - Addtional Favorites - The post Editors’ Picks for 2014 appeared first on The Psych Report.

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How Trust Leads to Truth: A Q&A on the U.S. Government’s Search for an...

How Trust Leads to Truth: A Q&A on the U.S. Government’s Search for an Evidence-Based Interrogation StrategyThe Psych Report ince 2010, a group of psychologists has been working for a new U.S....

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The Psych List: Sendhil Mullainathan on racism and bias in America and more...

The Psych List: Sendhil Mullainathan on racism and bias in America and more Monday linksThe Psych Report A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: Sendhil...

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NPR Launches New Show Exploring the ‘Invisibilia’ of Human Behavior

NPR Launches New Show Exploring the ‘Invisibilia’ of Human BehaviorThe Psych Report  Image: NPR What is it like to go through each day imagining stabbing an innocent person? Your wife? “My wife is...

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The Psych List: The rise of emotionally intelligent software and more weekly...

The Psych List: The rise of emotionally intelligent software and more weekly linksThe Psych Report A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: At 12, a debilitating...

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ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions

ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral InterventionsThe Psych Report Photo: Peter Kirkeskov Rasmussen y U.S. Census estimates, one in five children in the United States is living below...

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