In a recent blog on the shame of unemployment I suggested that a lot of people feel a sense of shame about losing their job. One reader commented that sometimes you lose your job because you are not doing your job. I doubt that this accounts for the doubling of unemployment in the last three years, but it's a point worth considering. Sometimes people lose their job for good reasons---and it's rea
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July 10, 2010
June 25, 2010
Getting a Great Job: Preparing and “Wowing” at the Interview
Consider these 2 scenarios:
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February 1, 2010
Why we tip and how to get a bigger tip
'I don't tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I'll give them a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it's for the birds. As far as I'm concerned, they're just doing their job.'Mr Pink, Reservoir Dogs.Stats from the USA suggest that $40 billion is spent on tips every year. Yet from the traditional economic p
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December 18, 2009
How many slices does it take to accurately judge personality and intelligence?
Suppose your organization is interviewing candidates for an important job. Would it be better for one trusted person to have an extended interview with them, or for several people to talk to them for less time? How many people would you need to conduct the interviews? Would three be enough? Would ten be too many? If ten is good, wouldn't twenty be even better?We've discussed thin-slicing studies
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October 2, 2009
How do we find those lost keys? The color of the environment doesn't seem to matter
The other day, our car wouldn't start and Jim had to ask a neighbor over to help him jump-start it. There was much rushing in and out of the house looking for flashlights and other tools to help get the job done. After the neighbor left, Jim wanted to drive somewhere and couldn't find the keys. Clearly he had just had them because he was working on the car. Where could they be? We searched up and
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August 26, 2009
The Pip and Pop Effect: Sound helps us find visual changes
Take a look at the following picture:Your job is to look for the one line that's either perfectly horizontal or perfectly vertical. It took me about 25 seconds to find it. Can you do better?How about now?A little easier, right?But the task can be made difficult again by randomly changing the colors of all the other lines in the picture, a few at a time. Now you don't know which flash to look at a
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August 14, 2009
What if?!?! - How scheduling time to worry each day can decrease how often you worry
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. What if I lose my job? What if I get sick? What if North Korea launches nuclear weapons? What if my dog runs away? What if somebody makes fun of my child? What if I...
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July 29, 2009
How do we remember scenes?
Take a look at this quick movie. What you'll see is two sets of three views of the same scene (our living room). For each group of three views, your job is to decide if the third view is taken from the same angle as one of the two previous views. After the first two views flash by, the text "Same?" will appear, and that's your cue to decide if the third view is the same as EITHER of the first two
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June 11, 2009
Using empirically supported treatments in outpatient clinics results in greater client improvement
by Michael D. Anestis, M.S. Building off of yesterday's discussion on the importance of a systematic approach to diagnostic assessments, I would like to discuss a somewhat older article that I believe does a wonderful job of objectively demonstrating a...
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May 7, 2009
How to Cope with Stress (ThomasNet)
How people deal with stress greatly affects their well-being. Here are some strategies to help you deal with stress in a healthy manner, whether at home or on the job.
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