Attention is widely assumed to decline with age. A 2024 study testing older and younger adults across 11 attention tasks finds the reality is far more complicated, and that the general decline narrative does not hold up under careful scrutiny.
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.
The dark triad of leadership, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, has attracted surprising admiration in some research quarters. A 2022 paper proposes an explicit alternative rooted in Buddhist psychology, and argues the admiration has been measuring success far too narrowly.
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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.
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.
