This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...

This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...

Sometimes what looks like a problem with a person is really a problem with the situation. Let me tell you the story of a woman named Amanda who worked for Nike in Vietnam. She traveled a lot, and when ...

Have you ever thought to yourself, “He is an anxious guy," or "she seems kind of edgy?” As human beings, one of the most instinctive things we do is make ...

Is Entitlement Among Millennials Overblown? New research suggests we may be exaggerating the generation gap in the workplace. The Fundamental Attribution Error: It’s the Situation, Not the Person ...

There I was, sitting in a packed movie theatre. I waited two years for this sequel and I’ve got enough popcorn and diet soda to last me a full three hours. Fifteen minutes into the movie, the hero and ...

This article originally appeared in Science of Us. Generally speaking, when you’re trying to understand a news event through a behavioral-science lens, it’s not a good idea to roll up, loudly invoke ...

Is teaching quality the same as teacher quality? Kim Marshall recently pointed me to this excellent article by Mary M. Kennedy of Michigan State University, which makes a strong case for focusing more ...

I've found myself lately reading a number of books about how humans think - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Switch by Chip and Dan Heath, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, The Righteous Mind ...

I agree with all of Arthur Levine's conclusions in "Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities." Where Levine gets it wrong is to assume that this shift is being driven by the demand of digital ...