Jeffrey Goldsmith with Shawn Achor | May 28, 2013 The secret to a more productive, creative, and flexible workforce? M&Ms, thank-you cards, and whatever else makes them smile. In a psychological study, 44 internists are given a hypothetical patient file, including a misdiagnosis from another hospital, and asked to decipher the medical problem at hand. Half of…
Margie Warrell, Contributor | May 20, 2013 Leadership is far less about what you are doing, than about who you are being. If you think about the people who have influenced you most over the course of your career and life, it’s likely that what impacted you most was not what they did, but about who they were…
Cathy Garrard | Men’s Health So stressed you might punch the next guy who pisses you off? Bad idea. Instead, soothe yourself by reading about these surprising health benefits of being put under pressure. Stress gets an awful lot of bad press, and not without good reason: As many as 90% of all doctor’s office…
In the weeks following the Sandy Hook tragedy, the lead stories on the news have been truly heart wrenching. Sometimes I find I can’t bear to read or watch another story, and other times I simply can’t look away. As a parent of three girls, I desperately want to shelter my children from the negative…
Heidi Grant Halvorson | March 14, 2013 You are stressed — by your deadlines, your responsibilities, your ever-increasing workload, and your life in general. If you are like me, you even stress about how much stress you’re feeling — worrying that it is interfering with your performance and possibly taking years off of your life. This…
Chris Berdik | GLOBE CORRESPONDENT March 10, 2013 YOU KNOW the feeling. In your head, it’s like a jackhammer. In your chest, it’s like a vice. In your stomach, it’s like a lead weight. It’s stress. Stress costs the American economy about $300 billion a year in medical bills and missed work, according to the World…
Joe Donatelli | March 4, 2013 Books, daytime talk shows, Jack Johnson—everywhere we turn someone is telling us to avoid stress. But those authors, experts, and mellow crooners might be doing everyone a disservice. Stress can be good. Alia Crum of Columbia University and her colleagues will publish research in the April 2013 edition of The Journal…
Emma Goldberg | Staff Writer February 26, 2013 Amidst midterm season, President-elect Peter Salovey has a message for students — stress can be good. In a recent study to be published in the April edition of The Journal of Social and Psychological Sciences, Salovey collaborated with lead author and Columbia adjunct professor Alia Crum GRD…
Sherri Kuhn | November 02, 2013 Bullying is a hot topic with everyone from the playgroup moms to the middle school campus supervisors. The negative effects of a bully’s behavior affects not only the victim, but the bystanders and the bully as well. NEW CHILDREN’S BOOK USES SCIENCE What if there was a way to stop…
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