Situational judgment tests and assessment centres are both widely used in selection. A 2024 head-to-head comparison finds they are not interchangeable: one predicts thinking performance well, the other is needed for interpersonal and leadership performance. The right question is not which is better, but better at predicting what.
Studies You Should Know: General Cognitive Ability and Job Performance: A Contemporary Reassessment The Question Few findings in industrial and organisational psychology have
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.
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.
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.
What does the average surgeon, teacher, or software engineer look like in terms of personality? A 2024 study mapping 263 occupations across 68,000 people provides the most comprehensive answer yet and finds that the details matter more than the headlines.
Is there a real connection between physical attractiveness and personality? A 2026 study replicates and extends earlier findings, using longitudinal data to examine whether the two are more meaningfully linked than most people assume.
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.
Intelligence and personality have long been treated as separate domains. A sweeping 2022 meta-analysis of over 160,000 participants finds they are more meaningfully connected than most research has suggested — but only if you know where to look.
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.
