Research
Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive
by Emma Seppälä, Kim Cameron Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a...
Do “Mirror Neurons” Help Create Social Understanding?
Is the mirror system key to how social understanding is created in the brain? Researchers from Denmark released a new study on Feb. 24 showing that specific brain cells called “mirror neurons” may help people interpret the actions they see other people perform. Mirror...
Understanding the stress response, Chronic activation of this survival mechanism impairs health
A stressful situation — whether something environmental, such as a looming work deadline, or psychological, such as persistent worry about losing a job — can trigger a cascade of stress hormones that produce well-orchestrated physiological changes. A stressful...
Frequent ‘I-Talk’ may signal proneness to emotional distress
Your friends who can't stop talking about themselves may be telling you more than you think. People who talk a lot about themselves are not narcissists as one might expect. Instead, those who say 'I' and 'me' a lot may be prone to depression, anxiety and other...
Purpose in life predicts treatment outcome among adult cocaine abusers in treatment
A sense of purpose in life has been positively associated with mental health and well-being and has been negatively associated with alcohol use in correlational and longitudinal studies but has not been studied as a predictor of cocaine treatment outcome. This study...
The Value of a Purposeful Life: Sense of Purpose Predicts Greater Income and Net Worth
Having a sense of purpose in life appears valuable across life domains, though it remains unclear whether purpose also provides financial value to individuals. The current study examined sense of purpose as a predictor of concurrent and longitudinal income and net...
Purpose in life predicts allostatic load ten years later.
OBJECTIVE: Living a purposeful life is associated with better mental and physical health, including longevity. Accumulating evidence shows that these associations might be explained by the association between life purpose and regulation of physiological systems...
Cohesiveness within teamwork: the relationship to performance effectiveness – case study
– While many organizations are successful at managing the materials and machinery of the organization, they fall short in managing the human side of their business. This research addresses and assesses how teams can progress to be of maximum use through teamwork and...
The cognitive underpinnings of effective teamwork: A meta-analysis.
Major theories of team effectiveness position emergent collective cognitive processes as central drivers of team performance. We meta-analytically cumulated 231 correlations culled from 65 independent studies of team cognition and its relations to teamwork processes,...
Emergent Leadership Behaviors: The Function of Personality and Cognitive Ability in Determining Teamwork Performance and KSAs
This study investigated the theoretical underpinnings of individual differences in emergent leadership behaviors and their relationships to teamwork processes and outcomes. Both personality and cognitive ability were utilized to examine behaviors of leadership...