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We've talked about this before.  But it's coming back again, and it's even more disturbing this time.  If you're a psychopath , you're going to love an abusive boss . I know it sounds crazy but hear me out.  According to newswise.com, a new study has found that  abusive supervisors may even empower employees with destructive characteristics that harm companies. High-profile corporate scandals caused by extreme risk-taking and brazen malfeasance have driven scholars and business leaders to speculate that those responsible for unethical behavior may possess psychopathic tendencies. But do these “bad” employees perform poorly, and does employing them only lead to problems for companies? Not always, according to a new study by a University of Arkansas researcher, the web site notes. Lauren Simon, assistant professor of management, and her co-authors — Charlice Hurst at the University of Notre Dame, Yongsuhk Jung at Korea Air Force Academy and Dante Pirouz at We...

I certainly didn't feel that way after losing two jobs in a row.  But now a new study says hitting rock bottom can actually help you find a new one. According to newswise.com, hitting rock bottom can be beneficial. We’ve all heard it said, “When you hit rock bottom, there’s nowhere to go but up.” This can prove especially true in business, where bottoming out as a result of job loss can be necessary before finding the radical solution that will lead to a new work identity.  So says new research from the University of Notre Dame, as reported at the web site. “On the way down, we frantically do all sorts of things to try and repair the situation, and suffer as they fail,” says lead author author  Dean Shepherd , the Siegfried Professor of Entrepreneurship in Notre Dame’s  Mendoza College of Business . “Bottoming out frees us from the misconception that the problems can be fixed, and in the process, frees us from other constraints and negative emotions ...

Mine is atrocious.  And now a new study says it can tell why. From my mood, of course. We're talking about my handwriting , which, in some cases, is worse than my husband's.  Who's a dentist. And we all know how great those in the medical profession's is. A new study at the University of Haifa reveals that our handwriting very much reflects our mood.   Using a unique computerized system to locate minute changes in handwriting, researchers at the University of Haifa managed to identify differences between people in various moods, the goal: to create an objective index of mood independent of the individual’s subjective report, according to newswise.com. According to cognitive theory, since the brain does not have infinite resources, when it executes several actions simultaneously, the secondary actions – including automatic ones – are impaired, the web site reports.  Prof. Sarah Rosenblum of the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University ...

This surprised me. Maybe it will you, too.  But did you know that coaches prefer a tie to a win ? According to newswise.com, most coaches, faced with a chance to win, go for the tie.    Say you’re the coach of a basketball team that’s trailing by two points in the dying seconds of a game. Your team has the ball and you call a timeout to set up a play. Or imagine your football team has just scored a touchdown with three seconds to play to pull to within one point. Instead of immediately sending out the placekicker for the point-after, you call your final timeout to discuss your next move. In both cases, there are options that will either win the game or tie the score and send the game into overtime. A made three-point shot to beat the buzzer will send your team joyously into the locker room; a successful two-point conversion will do the same for your football team. Of course, if you choose the option that could potentially win the game without overtime, the...

Granted, we're not monkeys.  But a new study has found that chimpanzees who can control themselves are more intelligent. Now, I don't know whether that means they wait for the banana instead of immediately gulping it down but this study at Georgia State University says, a s is true in humans, chimpanzees’ general intelligence is correlated to their ability to exert self-control and delay gratification, according to newswise.com. The research finding relates back to the famous “marshmallow test,” an experiment originally performed at Stanford University in the 1960s, where children were given the choice of taking a small, immediate reward (a single marshmallow placed in front of them) or waiting to earn a larger reward (two marshmallows). Previous research has found that children who perform well on the marshmallow test and other tests of delayed gratification tend to also perform well on tests of general intelligence. Georgia State researchers Michael J. Beran and Willi...

It probably shouldn't come as a surprise (we see it every day  -- I'll whistle, you point), but people who are thought to be immoral are also thought to be incompetent , according to a new study as reported by newswise.com. The bottom line?  Dishonest individuals are seen as less capable. People view immoral individuals as less able to do their jobs or complete tasks effectively, the study finds.  “Although arguments can be made that an individual’s moral behavior is, or should be, irrelevant to their overall competence, we found consistent support that immoral behavior reduced judgments of people’s competence,” says lead author Jennifer Stellar, PhD, of the University of Toronto.  Stellar and her co-author, Robb Willer, PhD, of Stanford University, conducted a series of six experiments involving more than 1,500 participants. Across these experiments, the researchers depicted individuals acting immorally in hypothetical scenarios (e.g., shoplifting, acting s...

The next time you're in a dim room, you may have trouble remembering it. Or so a new study says. According to newswise.com, s pending too much time in dimly lit rooms and offices may actually change the brain’s structure and hurt one’s ability to remember and learn, indicates research by Michigan State University neuroscientists. The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is the first to show that changes in environmental light, in a range normally experienced by humans, leads to structural changes in the brain. Americans, on average, spend about 90 percent of their time indoors, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Ok, so the study was done with rats exposed to dim and bright lights for a couple of weeks.  As you might expect, the rodents who had more light did better in the trial.  But still, we've all heard of how not spending enough time outside may lead to a decrease in Vitamin D , which can lead to depression and fatigue, along with oth...

Do you ever get mad when you go to the grocery store and the item you have a coupon for is not listed at the sale price -- or there at all? Well, this may lead to more jobs  in brand management . Say what? (Do people even say that anymore??!!) Studies say buyers are angrier than ever, and that "retail rage" is real, according to newswise.com.  While a person behind a shopping cart may not inflict the same kind of damage as someone driving a 6,000-pound SUV (aka road rage), a few years ago researchers began noticing a troubling rise in violence at malls and big-box stores. "The increase was especially dramatic around the holiday shopping season," says Joshua D. Dorsey, Ph.D., assistant professor of  marketing  at  California State University, Fullerton . "During what was supposed to be a happy time, people were actually getting hurt." In research on "aisle rage" published in the   Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services , Dorsey wro...

This probably won't surprise too many, but showing weakness at work , well, can hurt you. According to newswise.com, sharing personal information with friends and family has long been held by researchers as a way to build rapport and healthy relationships. But between coworkers, that’s not always true. That is at the center of new research conducted at Georgia Institute of Technology, where researchers looked into how personal disclosures in a workplace environment could impact the relationships between coworkers and task effectiveness. In the study published in January, the researchers found that for higher-status individuals, disclosing a weakness negatively affected their relationship and task effectiveness with their lower-status partners. “We may think that sharing personal information is always a good thing, but what we found is that when higher status individuals, which could in real situations include star employees, share personal information that highlights a pot...