The causes and consequences of thinking there’s an office conspiracy
By Alex Fradera We’re all familiar with gossip in the workplace, both the benign variety – did you know Tom…
View Article“In-group infamy” – we have a lasting memory for colleagues who let the side...
We have a particularly lasting memory for when team members let the side down. By Alex Fradera
View ArticleEpisode 9: How To Get The Best From Your Team
This is Episode 9 of PsychCrunch, the podcast from the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest, sponsored by Routledge Psychology. Download here.…
View ArticleFind a gym buddy – not letting them down can be a powerful incentive
Many gym members rarely show up. This new study explored various strategies for boosting gym attendance. By Juliet Hodges
View ArticleOverconfidence Can Be Transmitted From Person To Person
By Emma Young There will always be some people within a group who are more confident than others. But some groups as a whole tend towards modesty — as with the !Kung hunters of the Kalahari Desert, for...
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Self-doubting bosses prefer to delegate to self-doubting staff
It’s possible to earn great success in your professional career, rise to great heights, but all the while experience the “imposter phenomenon“: the sense that your position is undeserved, your...
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How do popular kids behave in a cooperative task with a classmate?
Popular girls showed more skilful leadership than others, popular boys showed less. In classrooms around the world, there’s an unwritten hierarchy, with most of the kids knowing each other’s standing...
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Teams are more creative when their leader is confident in her or his own...
If you’re wondering who to appoint to run a team with creative goals, you might favour a non-creative, reasoning that it’s down to the team members to generate creativity, with the person at the top...
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Minimalist, anonymous rooms are probably not a good place to do teamwork
According to the philosophy of “lean space management”, a minimalist workspace shorn of clutter is distraction-free and ideal for productivity. But this philosophy turns out to have slim empirical...
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When staff absenteeism seems catching, it could be the team culture that’s sick
When the morning alarm carves us out of our slumber, restoring the previous night’s raspy throat and foggy head, we have a decision to make: get up and go, or call in sick. What happens next is...
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