Articles et réflexions sur les sciences comportementales appliquées au management au leadership et à l'entreprise
Carolyn Gregoire Creativity works in mysterious and often paradoxical ways. Creative thinking is a stable, defining characteristic in some personalities, but it may also change based on situation and context. Inspiration and ideas often arise seemingly...
Gut instincts: The secrets of your second brain Emma Young When it comes to your moods, decisions and behaviour, the brain in your head is not the only one doing the thinking IT'S been a tough morning. You were late for work, missed a crucial meeting...
Si nous partons du postulat qu'une entreprise est un ensemble d'unités ayant chacune une expertise spécifique qui permet de produire un bien ou un service qui sera apprécié dans un contexte donné alors on peut imaginer qu'il y ait une similitude entre...
This 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...
Researchers have found ways to lessen age-related forgetfulness By Hal Arkowitz and Scott O. Lilienfeld | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 When Mick Jagger first sang “What a drag it is getting old,” he was 23 years old. Now at 69, he is still a veritable Jumpin'...
With the President suggesting a multibillion-dollar neuroscience effort, a leading neuroscientist explains the deep conceptual problems with plans to record all the brain's neurons By Partha Mitra | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 The Sherlock Holmes novel The...
From solar power to powering our planet with garbage, Scientific American explores ideas that would improve our planet By Christopher Mims , Amanda Schupak , Michael Moyer , Sarah Simpson , John Pavlus , Gregory Mone , Melinda Wenner and Katherine Harmon...
The risk of destroying a career is nothing compared with the evolutionary drive to reproduce By Stephanie Pappas and LiveScience | Tuesday, November 13, 2012 | An admitted affair has crumbled the career of CIA Director David Petraeus, prompting the evergreen...
Investigations 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...
What 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...
Our Brains Have a Map for Numbers It is as if there is a number line in our heads By Emilie Reas | Tuesday, January 14, 2014 | 8 “Come on. Get out of the express checkout lane! That’s way more than twelve items, lady.” Without having to count, you can...
Secrets of the Criminal Mind Adrian Raine argues that we must fight crime with biology By Gareth Cook What is science revealing about the nature of the criminal mind? Adrian Raine, a professor at the university of Pennsylvania, is an expert in the expanding...
How We Went Digital Without a Strategy by Ricardo Semler I own a $160 million South American company named Semco, and I have no idea what business it’s in. I know what Semco does—we make things, we provide services, we host Internet communities—but I...
How to Stop Bullying Journalist Emily Bazelon investigates the psychology of bullying, and what can be done to help By Gareth Cook | Tuesday, February 26, 2013 | In January of 2010, a teenage girl named Phoebe Prince walked home from school, let herself...
New study hints at a biological cause for middle-age blues By Ewen Callaway and Nature magazine | Monday, November 19, 2012 They may not take up surfing or start second careers as cupcake-makers, but chimpanzees and orangutans seem to go through a ‘mid-life...
How Safe Is Recreational Marijuana? As more states make recreational marijuana legal, researchers fret about short- and long-term health effects By Roxanne Khamsi | Friday, May 31, 2013 | Marijuana is more popular and accessible in the U.S. than any other...
As more states make recreational marijuana legal, researchers fret about short- and long-term health effects By Roxanne Khamsi Marijuana is more popular and accessible in the U.S. than any other street drug. In national surveys, 48 percent of Americans...
D'innombrables réactions cellulaires doivent être coordonnées pour que le cerveau fonctionne correctement. Et pourtant, le hasard joue un rôle essentiel dans ce système parfaitement organisé. Silvio Rizzoli, Benjamin Wilhelm et William Zhang Nous pensons,...
Whether reading Chinese characters or French words written alphabetically, the same areas light up in our brains, an insight that could inform learning strategies for literacy By Philip Ball and Nature magazine | Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Learning to...
Key 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...
Warm Weather Makes It Hard to Think Straight How temperature shapes difficult decisions By Adrian F. Ward | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 | Imagine you are on vacation and find yourself running low on a few necessities. You stop by a small convenience store...
Emotion is a powerful driver of behavior, sometimes too powerful. Virtually everyone has had the experience of reacting in the heat of the moment only to later regret his or her words or deed. An almond-shaped structure in the center of the brain called...
18 schémas cognitifs inadaptés qui contribuent aux troubles de la personnalité Voici les modèles cognitifs du développement des traits de personnalité inadaptés de Aaron Beck et Jeffrey E. Young qui constituent de grands classiques de la psychologie cognitive....
People who lack restraint seek out colleagues and friends who are not impulsive By Wray Herbert | Tuesday, February 12, 2013 My high school classmate Tom Gordon was everyone's choice for “least likely to succeed.” He drank too much and drove too fast,...
Unlike the case in human brains, neural connectivity does not rapidly augment in chimpanzee brains during the first two years of life, which may explain our unique intelligence By Tia Ghose and LiveScience* Despite sharing 98 percent of our DNA with chimpanzees,...
