Articles et réflexions sur les sciences comportementales appliquées au management au leadership et à l'entreprise
A scientist enters a high-security psychiatric hospital to extract tips and advice from a crowd without a conscience By Kevin Dutton | Friday, January 4, 2013 | Adapted from The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us...
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Finding the Good in the Bad: A Profile of Rita Levi-Montalcini The Italian researcher faced prejudice and adversity as a woman and as a Jew, but went on to elucidate a growth factor essential to the survival of nerve cells By Marguerite Holloway | Sunday,...
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This protein plays a key role in the formation of the nervous system. It has also been employed as an "Ariadne's thread" to explore mechanisms of nerve-cell growth and differentiation By Rita Levi-Montalcini and Pietro Calissano Editor's Note: Neurobiologist...
Lire la suiteKey findings and events that may emerge in 2013 concern stem cell trials, gene patents, open-access research papers and an updated U.N. climate assessment By Richard Van Noorden and Nature magazine Stem-cell trials Landmark results from an early-stage...
Lire la suitePsychologists document the joys of sharing joy By Emma Seppala Positive experiences happen to us everyday yet we don't always take full advantage of them. Have you ever noticed that it could be a great day (you had 8 hours of sleep, it’s the weekend,...
Lire la suiteExercise is good for you, whereas high heels are not, and calling an ambulance saves lives By Jeanna Bryner , Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience For scientists, an answer to a question, or solution to a problem, is not true until proven so. And sometimes...
Lire la suiteCognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when visualizing the same action By Benjamin K. Bergen Editor's...
Lire la suiteLike Math? Thank Your Motivation, Not IQ People who were driven by their own interest improved their math skills the most. IQ or external factors such as parental pressure or grades didn't create a lasting boost By Tia Ghose and LiveScience | Friday,...
Lire la suiteFunctional MRI can peer inside your brain and watch you watching a YouTube clip By Christof Koch | Saturday, December 29, 2012 Unless you have been deaf and blind to the world over the past decade, you know that functional magnetic resonance brain imaging...
Lire la suiteWhat brain scans of rap artists reveal about creativity—and what they do not By Arne Dietrich | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 Even for the wilderness of human thinking, creative ideas seem to be deliberately designed to defy empirical enquiry. There is something...
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