Overcoming societal disparities to achieve an equal opportunity path to leadership is challenging, but organizations can take tangible steps to foster leadership potential across the socioeconomic spectrum.
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While many view the path to leadership as a journey that begins later in life, new research suggests childhood and adolescence play keys roles in how it develops.
The fresh flavors taste good now – a here-and-now reward that’s more motivating than potentially avoiding health problems in the future.
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Long-term goals can be hard to stick to if the benefits are only way off in the future. Research suggests ways to focus on the here and now to help you ultimately achieve your more far-off targets.
High prices for groceries, housing and entertainment are leaving shoppers with reduced funds as the holiday season descends upon us.
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There are a number of ways shoppers can resist the temptation of expensive gift options that might strain their budgets this holiday season.
Characteristics of ‘overcontrolled’ personalities may make a person more likely to experience social isolation and loneliness.
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Yoga’s surge in popularity in the past decade has spurred more research into its effects. The combination of physical movement and mindfulness provides a wide range of health benefits.
A sign in a yard listing many virtues – an example of virtue signaling.
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Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is unwelcome in a divided US.
Everybody wants more self-control, but it’s proven difficult to beef up through training. New research suggests that what your social group does might be key to enhancing your own self-control skills.
Let your self-control gain momentum like a snowball rolling downhill.
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Could your resolution resilience use a little science to back it up? A new study suggests practice can help your self-control – but don’t push it too far.
Diners eat at Katz’s Delicatessen in New York, New York.
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As we struggle to avoid temptations throughout the day, we often rely on willpower and self-control to back impulses. New research suggests a different way to think about this internal battle.
Attempts to restructure our “obesogenic” food environment for health are often criticized - as restricting personal choice and freedom.
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Bombarded with unhealthy offerings by the food industry, we blame and shame ourselves for gaining weight. But is it really our fault, or are we being “entrapped?”
Ontario is the only Canadian province to offer a unique two-year, full-day and play-based kindergarten model.
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Effective organisations encourage self-control, good process, proper discussion and are more driven by growth mindsets than unrealistic performance metrics.
Every year, millions of people around the world make New Year’s resolutions. And every year, the great majority of us break and abandon those resolutions. Psychology research can help.
Managing Director of the McCourtney Institute of Democracy, Associate Research Professor, Political Science, Co-host of Democracy Works Podcast, Penn State