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Online Connections as Your Personality Indicators
We can assess personalities through everyday discussions. Everything we think, do and say are personality indicators. Friend selection works this way too. All can help us distinguish between “who we think we are” and “who we are.” This is important to marketers and advertisers because what we say we’ll buy is often different from what [… Read More]
America’s Faith-based Economy
When I read articles like “Toss a Coin” (The Economist, January 12, 2013 edition), I’m reminded that our economy relies on faith. After all, as the article indicates, the U.S. Treasury prints money to satisfy its debts. Of course, it prints purposefully to avoid the extremes of inflation and contraction. If the Treasury did not [… Read More]
Your Brain, the Final Frontier
“Space, the final frontier” introduced Star Trek’s original series, but assessments of our human knowledge indicate that the space between our ears is more of a frontier than the space above our heads is. That is a major reason the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has proposed that the Next Big Thing [… Read More]
Beauty as Power (Pt 7): Lessons from Men’s Movements
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Beauty as PowerHow we feel about ourselves influences our decisions, but it also influences how others feel about us. One of the more interesting studies in this area was the one lead by Craig Roberts, who was at the University of Liverpool at the time, [… Read More]
Personality is our Politics
People often believe that political views are a battle of ideas. In reality, they are more a battle of personality types. People also believe people are important. “I am a people person,” is a common self-descriptor. Daily though, we discount people without consciously realizing we do. For instance, saying politics is a battle of ideas, [… Read More]
Emotions and Intuition as Foundation of All Decisions
One of the more contrarian perspectives that has helped me appreciate people’s decisions is that emotions and its interpretive big sister, intuition, form their foundation. Even a logical decision comes about because of a person’s emotional preference for logic. While this does not mean logic, reason and rationales are not involved; it does mean they [… Read More]
Imperfect Music is Perfect Music
A while back I read “Why Music?” (The Economist, December 18, 2008 edition) and the first sentence of the concluding paragraph hit me: The truth, of course, is that nobody yet knows why people respond to music. It’s mysterious how something so prevalent can be so unknown. Yet, while today it remains true, people like [… Read More]
Placebo Management (Pt 5): Emotions, Health, Performance
This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series Placebo ManagementHow we feel about ourselves affects us. It influences our health and decisions. Now, as reported in the article, “Think Yourself Well” (The Economist, December 8, 2012 edition), Barbara Fredrickson and Bethany Kok of the University of North Carolina may have found physiological connection [… Read More]
Correlation: Muscular Men & Self-interest
The book The Geography Behind History by W. Gordon East, which discusses the influence of geography on countries’ cultures led me a long time ago to begin observing the influence of individuals’ physical characteristics on their personalities. My previous post, “Body – Emotion Connection: People Are Very Different,” highlighted research showing that how we feel [… Read More]
Mobile Workforce: Less “Face Time,” Less Advancement
One day long ago, I was working late for an employer when the President walked into the department and commented, “You’re working late!” I replied, “Yes, my wife is out of town, so I figured I would catch up on a few things.” “I wish more thought the same way,” he concluded and continued his [… Read More]