Articles et réflexions sur les sciences comportementales appliquées au management au leadership et à l'entreprise
An ambitious researcher wrestles with some of the grand challenges of neural development By David Cyranoski and Nature magazine | Sunday, November 11, 2012 | Yoshiki Sasai is not just an ordinary tissue engineer who tries to coax stem cells to grow into...
Lire la suiteThe disturbing world of dreams is grounded in day-to-day experience, scientists say By Wynne Parry and LiveScience | Monday, November 12, 2012 | The realm of sleep and dreams has long been associated with strangeness: omens or symbols, unconscious impulses...
Lire la suiteA lesson in communication from Scientific American By Ingrid Wickelgren | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | Key concepts Psychology Attention Working memory Communication Introduction Have you ever told a friend or family member something only to later find...
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Single-celled amoebae can remember, make decisions and anticipate change, urging scientists to rethink intelligent behavior By Ferris Jabr | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 Gardeners sometimes encounter them in their backyards—spongy yellow masses squatting...
Lire la suiteNew evidence that men are more likely to cooperate in difficult circumstances By Emma Seppala | Tuesday, November 6, 2012 | Ever feel that stress makes you more cranky, hot-headed or irritable? For men in particular, we think of stress as generating testosterone-fueled...
Lire la suiteIn 1940 Action Comics introduced a brilliant supervillain named Lex Luthor who tries to kill Superman to advance his plot to rule the world. These days news articles often portray Bernard Madoff as an “evil genius” because of his creative Ponzi scheme...
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Seeking a Chief Exec with the Right Stuff?: Look for a Touch of Psychopathy An Emory University psychologist recounts why "fearless dominance," a personality trait used to screen for psychopaths, may be a quality to consider in our next chief executive...
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 suiteAdapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths, by Kevin Dutton, by arrangement withScientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC (US), Doubleday Canada (Canada), Heinemann (UK), Record (Brazil), DTV (Germany), De Bezige Bij (Netherlands), NHK (Japan), Miraebook...
Lire la suiteHow the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to ‘Bend Reality’ Journalist Chris Berdik explains the many ways that what is expected shapes what happens By Gareth Cook | Tuesday, October 16, 2012 | Chris Berdik, a science journalist and former staff editor...
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