"Workplace incivility" is on the rise, researchers said Sunday at the American Psychological Association annual meeting. The academics define workplace incivility as "a form of organizational deviance… characterized by low-intensity behaviors that violate respectful workplace norms, appearing vague as to intent to harm."
Date Posted: August 11, 2011
GOConstant bitterness can make a person ill, according to Concordia University researchers who have examined the relationship between failure, bitterness and quality of life. "Persistent bitterness may result in global feelings of anger and hostility ...
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In stock market bubbles, human nature comes in and mucks up elegant economic theories.
The stock market is supposed to be so efficient that it immediately corrects any errors due to human logical biases. There are even investors who exploit ...
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The threat of a “double dip” back into an economic recession looms, but if this comes to pass, the reasons would be much different from the body blow the U.S. economy received a few years ago. In 2008, a number of major financial institutions ...
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Much of the advice you read about how to negotiate your salary is rubbish.
It's not just that salaries are a touchy subject and so they're difficult to investigate accurately, it's also that the same old clichés get repeated over-and-over again ...
Aug 6
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GOExtending the importance of sleep further into the workplace, a recent study suggests that lack of sleep or low quality of sleep is related to unethical behavior. Drawing from the Ego Depletion model (which says self-control requires purposeful ...
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Getting kids to pay attention is hard enough. But thanks to today’s technological advances, it can become an even bigger challenge. For instance, a University of Washington study found a link between toddlers watching TV and diminished attention ...
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A signaling system in the brain previously shown to regulate sleep is also responsible for inducing lethargy during illness, according to research conducted at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital.
This research is ...
Aug 4
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Aug 3
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Aug 3
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Children born to mothers who are stressed during pregnancy may become adults with prematurely aged cells.
A comparison of 94 young adults found those subjected to prenatal stress tended to have white blood cells with shorter telomeres, the ...
Aug 3
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Or so we've been told by life experience as well as research finding. Better looking people get the benefit of the doubt, get away with bad behavior, and make more money than everyone else. Even babies spend more time staring at faces that the rest ...
Aug 2
GOPracticing positive activities may serve as an effective, low-cost treatment for people suffering from depression, according to researchers at the University of California, Riverside and Duke University Medical Center. In "Delivering Happiness: ...
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In the wake of the bombing in Oslo and the shooting on Utoya Island in Norway, the spotlight has focused on confessed perpetrator Anders Behring Breivik. What drove the Norwegian citizen with extremist right-wing views to these mass killings? ...
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