How to Argue Across Cultures - Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar , and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks. By Jeanne Brett, Kristin Behfar and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks | 2:00 PM December 4, 2013 Do you tackle problems with colleagues, partners, and customers head-on?
If so, chances are you’re from Western Europe or North America and, our research suggests, vulnerable to blind spots when working with people from other parts of the world. The Short Sentence as Gospel Truth. Draft is a series about the art and craft of writing.
Sense and Superstition. What a Messy Desk Says About You. Illustration by Ben Wiseman This article appeared in the Sunday, Sept. 22 issue of The New York Times Magazine.
For some time, psychologists and other researchers have been studying how personality traits affect health and health-related choices. The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-Track Faculty Life. Scary myths and scary data abound about life as a tenure-track faculty at an “R1″ university.
Scary enough to make you wonder: why would any smart person want to live this life? As a young faculty member at Harvard, I got asked such questions a lot. Why did you choose this career? The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.) Gloomy Thinking Can Be Contagious : Shots - Health News. Katherine Streeter for NPR When students show up at college in the fall, they'll have to deal with new classes, new friends and a new environment.
In many cases, they will also have new roommates — and an intriguing new research study suggests this can have important mental health consequences. At the University of Notre Dame, psychologist Gerald Haeffel has recently obtained results from a natural experiment that unfolds every year at the university. In a paper published recently in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, Haeffel and co-author Jennifer Hames report that roommates can have strong effects — both positive and negative — on one another's mental health. Like many schools, Notre Dame assigns new students their roommates. Join Wall Street. Save the world. This is Jason Trigg, a programmer who went to work for a hedge fund because he figures it's where he can earn the most - and thus give the most away.
(Photo by Gretchen Ertl/For The Washington Post) Jason Trigg went into finance because he is after money — as much as he can earn. The 25-year-old certainly had other career options. An MIT computer science graduate, he could be writing software for the next tech giant. Or he might have gone into academia in computing or applied math or even biology. How Stereotypes Can Drive Women To Quit Science.
Walk into any tech company or university math department, and you'll likely see a gender disparity: Fewer women than men seem to go into fields involving science, engineering, technology and mathematics.
Over the years, educators, recruiters and government authorities have bemoaned the gender gap and warned that it can have dire consequences for American competitiveness and continued technological dominance. That Loving Feeling Takes a Lot of Work. Yvetta Fedorova When people fall in love and decide to marry, the expectation is nearly always that love and marriage and the happiness they bring will last; as the vows say, till death do us part.
Only the most cynical among us would think, walking down the aisle, that if things don’t work out, “We can always split.” But the divorce rate in the United States is half the marriage rate, and that does not bode well for this cherished institution. While some divorces are clearly justified by physical or emotional abuse, intolerable infidelity, addictive behavior or irreconcilable incompatibility, experts say many severed marriages seem to have just withered and died from a lack of effort to keep the embers of love alive. I say “embers” because the flame of love — the feelings that prompt people to forget all their troubles and fly down the street with wings on their feet — does not last very long, and cannot if lovers are ever to get anything done.
Studies by Richard E. So Dr. Dr. Dr. Someone you know ill? Watch what you say, and to whom. When Susan had breast cancer, we heard a lot of lame remarks, but our favorite came from one of Susan's colleagues.
She wanted, she needed, to visit Susan after the surgery, but Susan didn't feel like having visitors, and she said so. Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness. The Mind of a Flip-Flopper. Straightening Out the Work-Life Balance. Jim Wilson/The New York Times Lily Starling, the owner of Downtown Davis Massage and Wellness in California, says she was able to advance her career by picking up extra work from co-workers with family commitments.
Michael Stravato for The New York Times Aziz Gilani, a director at DFJ Mercury in Houston, sometimes leaves early to take his children, Aleena, 5, and Ziyad, 3, to their swim class. Two of his partners also have young children, which places demands on their time. It wasn’t really for the extra money. “Parents are a special class, and they get special treatment,” says Ms. On this Labor Day weekend, when we celebrate the American worker, or at least the last unofficial days of summer, Ms. In theory, flextime seems like an everyone-wins proposition. As a result, many Americans who work for companies that embrace flexible hours are confronting a sort of office class warfare.
Phantom Limbs. Gut Feelings. Training Insights From Star Athletes.
Love. You Won’t Stay the Same, Study Finds. How to Die. The surgery had been unsuccessful, the doctor informed him. There was nothing more that could be done. “So I’m dying?” The patient asked. The doctor hesitated. In the Debates, Interruption or Interjection? Beware Stubby Glasses. If a police officer witnesses the death of his partner, it seems that you’d want to quickly send in a grief counselor. In fact, this sort of immediate counseling freezes and fortifies memories of the trauma, making the aftershocks more damaging. If you want to get people to vote more, it seems you’d want to tell them what a problem low turnout is.
In fact, if you want people to vote, tell them everybody else is already voting and they should join the club. Successful and Schizophrenic. Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart? Photo Noah Muthler took his first state standardized test in third grade at the Spring Cove Elementary School in Roaring Spring, Pa. Living With Less. A Lot Less. ‘The Hoarder in You’ - A Book That Can Help Cut Through the Clutter.