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Love these findings.

10 of The Most Counter-intuitive Psychology Findings Ever Published http://digest.bps.org.uk/2014/12/10-of-most-counter-intuitive-psychology.html?m=1

Loving these behaviour change resources

RESOURCES – Persuasive Tech

Particularly nice behaviour change model

BJ Fogg's Behavior Model

great reflection on the "leadership, can it be taught?", in summary it can to be point but leadership is learnt in the doing.

Can the "Leadership Industry" Fulfill Its Promise? — HBS Working Knowledge Summing Up: Jim Heskett's readers believe leadership is teachable—to a point.

research shows that smart-phone users believe they are living in a private bubble, this makes them immune to the idea that their behaviour could irritate others... do they mean us?

American Friends of Tel Aviv University: Smart Phones Are Changing Real World Privacy Settings

you probably already know my thoughts on multitasking, i.e. it sucks, but here is why we do it, to make us feel better

Mutltitasking Hurts Performance, Makes You Feel Better People aren't very good at media multitasking - like reading a book while watching TV - but do it anyway because it makes them feel good, a new study suggests. The findings provide clues as to why multitasking is so popular, even though many studies show it is not productive.

Blog that applies the SCARF model to politics, a good read

Blame it on the brain | AHRI Blog Through February we watched from the sidelines, as the Labor Party seemed to spontaneously implode. The thin veneer of unity that had been so tenuously holding the Labor ‘team’ together since Kevin Rudd was deposed by Julia Gillard in 2010 shattered, with federal Labor parliamentarians savagely and ...

Fascinating that smoking restores depleted resources, normally you need glucose to do that. I wonder what the brain mechanism is?

Smoking may restore tapped-out self-control resources When researchers deplete a smoker's self control, smoking a cigarette may restore self-control, new research suggests.

Modus Insight is running a free workshop on Saturday 26th Feb, 1-3pm, Cafe au Lait: "Your Social Brain - how we interact makes all the difference to your performance in work and life."

interesting insight into depression

Brain 'hyperconnectivity' linked to depression People with depression have hyperactive brain activity, according to a study published online today.

One simple way you can help your child today.

Meditation helps kids pay attention, leading researcher says Simple meditation techniques, backed up with modern scientific knowledge of the brain, are helping kids hard-wire themselves to be able to better pay attention and become kinder, says neuroscientist Richard Davidson.