Mindfulness meditation is getting all sorts of good press lately. It’ll cure your wandering attention and keep you from being so easily influenced by others, and new research suggests that it can improve your reaction to the sunk-cost fallacy. Not familiar with the sunk-cost fallacy? Actually, you’ve probably used it … Read More
You say gossip, a psychologist says “reputational information sharing”. Either way, we’re talking about talking about each other—who works hard, who’s a slacker, who’s trustworthy, who’s having an affair, who’s bringing doughnuts to work, and who’s stealing from the break room fridge. That’s all gossip, and, according to a new … Read More
We’re thinking of confining our interrogations to the morning from now on; new researchers suggests that our ability to exhibit self-control and keep a handle on our dishonesty is diminished over the course of the day. The research, published in Psychological Science, found that it’s easier to resist opportunities to … Read More
Think you’re pretty good at selective listening? Well, put that skill down on the list of things that diminish with age, according to a new study from Psychological Science. Researchers from Queens gathered a sample group of married couples, aged forty-four to seventy-nine, all of whom had been married for … Read More
