Merv Mandelbaum 
Past research has shown that workplace happiness (or wellbeing) dips mid-career, starting around late twenties (cue the ’08 graduates cries of “that’s supposed to be mid-career?!”) and recovering in the early forties. A new study now has a reason for why this may be so: demands on time increase, while … Read More
Need to figure out your next big career move? Find the highest balcony you can and start pondering. Need to calculate the risk in shifting stuff around in your stock portfolio? Take a seat. Why do we say that? Well, according to a new study published in the Journal of … Read More
Spend a lot of time getting interrupted during sleep? Like if you’re a new parent, or need to leave your work phone on? Well, that’s just as bad as getting four hours of sleep a night. Which is pretty bad. This information comes to us courtesy of a study published … Read More
Thinking of burning the midnight oil? Maybe don’t—after twenty-four hours, the quality of your thinking won’t be so great. In fact, it’ll be comparable to someone with schizophrenia. This information comes courtesy of a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers recruited a total of twenty-four healthy subjects, men … Read More
Is that girl at the bar interested in you? Actually, you probably have no idea. And neither does your wingman. According to a study published in Communication Research, everyone is pretty terrible at knowing if someone else is flirting. In one experiment, fifty-two pairs of single, heterosexual college students had … Read More
