The more honesty and humility an employee may have, the higher their job performance, as rated by the employees' supervisor. That's the new finding from a Baylor University study that found the honesty-humility personality ...
Social Sciences
Mar 1, 2011
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Women who demonstrate stereotypical masculine traits should be mindful of their behavior if they want to get ahead in the workplace. That is the finding of researchers at George Mason University and Stanford University who ...
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a one-of-its-kind flight arena, University of Arizona entomologist Goggy Davidowitz and his group study how giant hawk moths use energy resources for two of nature's most costly evolutionary traits: ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 6, 2011
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Outgoing. Assertive. Calm. Practical. Decisive. These are obvious qualities that one would want in their leaders.
Social Sciences
Oct 19, 2010
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Choices and behaviors influence long term happiness, despite individual genetic and personality traits, a study finds.
Social Sciences
Oct 4, 2010
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Loners and antisocial kids who reject other children are often bullied at school - an accepted form of punishment from peers as they establish social order. Such peer victimization may be an extreme group response to control ...
Social Sciences
Sep 28, 2010
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Biometric systems -- designed to automatically recognize individuals based on biological and behavioral traits such as fingerprints, palm prints, or voice or face recognition -- are "inherently fallible," says a new report ...
Other
Sep 24, 2010
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Old or young, beautiful or sinister - the choices are endless when designing an avatar or a virtual alter ego. In the end, do people choose one that is really different from themselves? Usually not, according to new Concordia ...
Social Sciences
Jul 26, 2010
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Researchers from the University of Burgos have studied the influence of emotional traits of the character in directors of Spanish banks and savings banks when making strategic decisions. The study concludes that executives ...
Social Sciences
Jul 9, 2010
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Just because popular social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter, encourage members to use their actual identities doesn't mean people are presenting themselves online the way they do in real life.
Internet
May 14, 2010
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