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Aug 4 A ten-week study of real work teams found that groups with a consistently dissenting member produced more original… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 4 People who stay calm under pressure aren't always unbothered The Balance
Aug 4 Money and happiness are linked, but not the way we assume Lachlan Brown
Aug 4 The strongest sign a person has done real inner work isn't how calmly they speak about their past, it's how little they… The Balance
Aug 4 A Norwegian study that measured agreement with the Law of Jante found the modesty code credited with holding… Lachlan Brown
Aug 4 A programme built in Bergen after three Norwegian teenagers died by suicide in 1982 cut bullying by roughly half among… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 4 A study asked people to send a brief message to someone they had not spoken to in a while and found the recipients… Lachlan Brown
Aug 4 Psychology says the unhappiest people you know are rarely the ones who seem sad Brendan Brown
Aug 4 Psychology says people who keep their circle extremely small as they age aren't becoming antisocial Brendan Brown
Aug 4 Psychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren't becoming mean Brendan Brown
Aug 4 Having no close friends is far more common than people admit, and the research suggests it usually says less about the… Lachlan Brown
Aug 4 Psychology says if you bring up these topics in a conversation to fill an awkward pause, you may be quietly revealing… Kiran Journals
Aug 4 A 1969 study found that explicitly telling people they could draw outside the nine-dot puzzle's boundary barely… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 4 A Danish trial gave 290 first-time-parent couples a structured emotional-intelligence-style relationship course… Scandinavia Standard
Aug 4 A Danish colleague's blunt, unsoftened feedback and a French colleague's carefully cushioned criticism can carry the… Lachlan Brown
Aug 4 Researchers who asked baby boomers what frustrates them most about younger generations at work found the answer had… Kiran Journals
Aug 3 Psychology says that the moment you become known as the strong one, the reliable one, the person who always shows up… Kiran Journals
Aug 3 The idea that introverts are simply cleverer does not hold up, but a large study found something subtler Lachlan Brown
Aug 3 Most people don't realise how much of their exhaustion comes from performing warmth they don't actually feel The Balance
Aug 3 We treat the person who talks most in the room as the most capable, but research on the babble effect finds that… Lachlan Brown