Articles et réflexions sur les sciences comportementales appliquées au management au leadership et à l'entreprise
We can learn a lot from psychopaths. Certain aspects of their personalities and intellect are often hallmarks of success By Kevin Dutton | Friday, October 12, 2012 | 10 Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement withScientific...
Lire la suiteInvestigations of genetic variants and how the body and brain change during recovery might offer insights into why some people never recover from trauma By Virginia Hughes and Nature magazine | Thursday, October 11, 2012 She pleaded with him to let her...
Lire la suiteThis month's issue of Scientific American features an excerpt from Kevin Dutton's new book, The Wisdom of Psychopaths (Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2012). In the excerpt, Dutton, a research psychologist at the Calleva Research...
Lire la suiteThe Earth is flat. A full moon leads to more crime. Humans were created less than 10,000 years ago. If you made your way through even the most general of science educations, the above statements should strike you as suspect. Having a Copernican worldview...
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In the 1970s biologist Sydney Brenner and his colleagues began preserving tiny hermaphroditic roundworms known as Caenorhabditis elegans in agar and osmium fixative, slicing up their bodies like pepperoni and photographing their cells through a powerful...
Lire la suiteA common complaint about wrinkle-masking Botox is that recipients have difficulty displaying emotions on their faces. That side effect might be a good thing, however, for people with treatment-resistant depression. In the first randomized, controlled...
Lire la suiteReprinted from Are We Getting Smarter? Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century , by James R. Flynn. Copyright © 2012 James R. Flynn. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University Press. The phenomenon of IQ gains has created unnecessary controversy...
Lire la suiteIntroduction Have you ever been playing cards and wished you could use psychic powers to draw the card you wanted? You may not be psychic, but you can still have the power of probability on your side. In this activity you'll investigate the probabilities...
Lire la suiteHow much is too much chocolate? Desperately devouring 5 percent of one's body weight might sound extreme, but scientists tinkering with the brain chemistry of rodents have found it's certainly possible. Scientists at the University of Michigan (U.M.)...
Lire la suiteThe laughter of tiny babies is not just a phenomenally popular theme for YouTube videos, it is also a fantastic window into the workings of the human brain. You can’t laugh unless you get the joke. At the University of London's Birkbeck Babylab we study...
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