Algorithms consistently outperform human judgment when combining assessment data to predict performance. A 2023 survey finds that practitioners know this and largely ignore it, and identifies the specific reasons why the evidence has failed to change practice.
Job stress has long been linked to heart disease. An 18-year study of 6,000 workers finds that when job strain and effort-reward imbalance combine, the risk more than doubles, with implications for how organisations think about workload and recognition.
Research on coaching effectiveness has identified what matters. A 2024 systematic review goes further, specifying what effective coaches actually do and, crucially, when they do it across the phases of a coaching engagement.
Cognitive ability tests are a staple of graduate recruitment. A 2023 critical review finds that the validity evidence used to justify them has been overstated, their adverse impact is real and consequential, and their use in high-volume screening raises questions that the field has been too slow to confront.
Does more money make you happier? Two prominent researchers had contradictory findings. A 2023 adversarial collaboration resolved the conflict: the answer depends on who you are, and for the happiest people, the relationship between income and wellbeing keeps rising with no ceiling in sight.
The Question In 1902, French colonial officials in Hanoi offered a bounty for rat tails to combat a plague-driven infestation. Residents duly
The Question The question of whether male and female brains are organised differently has been scientifically contentious and culturally charged in roughly
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.
Studies You Should Know Why Preregistration Is No Stop to Poor Science The Question Psychology's replication crisis prompted a wave of proposed remedies.
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.
