General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: A Contemporary Reassessment
Studies You Should Know: General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: A Contemporary Reassessment The Question Few findings in industrial and organisational psychology have
Why Preregistration Is No Stop to Poor Science
Studies You Should Know Why Preregistration Is No Stop to Poor Science The Question Psychology's replication crisis prompted a wave of proposed remedies.
A Potential Pitfall of Passion: When Enthusiasm Distorts Self-Assessment
Passion at work is almost universally celebrated. A 2024 study tracking nearly 34,000 daily observations finds a less comfortable truth: passion is also associated with overconfidence about how well you are actually performing.
What Is Wisdom? Sternberg’s Tree of Philosophy Theory
Psychology has been studying wisdom for decades, mostly on its own terms. A 2023 paper by Robert Sternberg argues the field has been missing something: two and a half thousand years of philosophical thinking about exactly this question.
Eight Personality Traits That May Help You Live to 100
What personality traits do people who live to 100 tend to share? A Spanish study interviewing 19 centenarians found eight recurring characteristics, and several of them point toward something more actionable than genetics.
Social Media Profiling: How Your Online Life Shapes Hiring Decisions
Most job seekers know their social media is being checked. What a 2024 study reveals is more unsettling: it is your personal posts, not your professional ones, that carry the most weight in how hiring managers rate your suitability for the job.
Can an AI Chatbot Read Your Personality?
Could an AI infer your personality just from the way you write and speak? A 2023 study put the idea to a rigorous psychometric test. The results are more nuanced than either enthusiasts or sceptics might expect.
Growth Mindset: A systematic review and meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions: For whom, how, and why might such interventions work??
Growth Mindset Interventions: What Does the Evidence Actually Show? Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.Growth mindset programs have spread through classrooms worldwide on the promise of large gains in student achievement. A rigorous 2022 meta-analysis of 97,000 students suggests the evidence behind that promise is far thinner than advertised.
The Elephant in the Room
The Problem The study of wisdom in psychology has long suffered from a curious irony: the field itself has lacked the very
Lived experience perspectives of factors that influence mental health recovery in Singapore
A recent study in Singapore has looked at how people recover from mental health setbacks (Kuek, Raeburn, Chow, & Wand, 2022). There is much research in the country on understanding mental health and information on the ability to diagnose mental health issues. However, the road back to recovery is far less understood.