Even before the pandemic, research found that 28% of large companies had turned down applicants after carrying out such checks. And it is becoming more popular: Reed Screening, a large agency, was asked to run over a third more social-media checks in December 2021 than a year earlier. ...
We have, at least, two good reasons to answer the question 'Psychology instead of Ethics? in the negative. The heuristic approach is not only compatible with a rationalist position; it specifies the underlying rules of moral judgments. Combining my arguments from common sense reasoning with the ...
In response to the "replication crisis" many psychologists recommended that the field adopt several proposed reforms to research practices (PRRPs), like preregistration, to make research more replicable. However, reception of PRRPs is not well known. We wanted to know the rationales researchers had...
A study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Review showed that people's ability to tell if someone is lying to them is little better than 50%. Interestingly, other research suggests that we are actual...
For example, it is possible that students who were interested in or have decided on a psychiatric nursing career were more likely to take up the psychology module prior to current school admission than vice versa. We did not do a pre-post test to see if the education in psychiatry or ...
James is a senior knowledge expert in McKinsey's European Retail Practice, concentrating on latest and best practice in retail format development and on the development of consumer goods industries in emerging markets. He holds undergraduate and masters degrees in Psychology. ...
Many of Gladwell’s ideas appear in his social psychology bestseller Outliers.___17___. Gladwell thinks that this is just an excuse for not trying and if you really want to be good at something, you have to work at it. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good,” Gladwe...
Research has shown working with an experienced anxiety disorder therapist is the most effective way to overcome anxiety disorder.[1] Yet, some people don’t believe in therapy. Here are 15 reasons why some people may not find therapy helpful. ...
Microlearning is well-suited to this delivery format. Microlearning is the need of the hour more so because of the way the average modern learner functions in his daily life. Here’s what a study carried out by the University of California-Irvine has found: Your employee works on...
However, that assumption is false. Research from the San Francisco State University in 2016 found that people who spent money on experiences rather than material items were happier and felt the money was better spent. We never want to live life with regrets but many times we later regret the...