Civil Society
The Sound of One Trap Flapping
How the vocal few can skew perceptions of public opinion.
Tag: Psychology
Nonprofits
Putting Women in Their Place
Which woman is more likely to attract unpleasant sexual attention: the office sweetheart or the ambitious upstart? A new study by social psychologist Jennifer Berdahl points to the upstart. From her findings, Berdahl concludes that “men aren’t harassing women to get into their pants, but to put them down....”
Nonprofits
Stopping the Spread of Trauma
Many Iraq War veterans can't shake the feeling of being constantly imperiled, and their therapists, in turn, may develop traumatic stress symptoms themselves. A new study tells how organizations can protect their frontline providers from psychic distress.
Podcast
Nonprofits & NGOs
Margaret Neale - Nonprofit Managment and Negotiation
Nonprofit management should include negotiation in its toolkit, yet few professionals are skilled at doing it. In this University podcast, Margaret Neale, Stanford Graduate School of Business professor, explores the psychological barriers to successful negotiation and suggests a disciplined process for a rewarding negotiation experience. She delivers her talk to an audience of nonprofit executives at the 2006 Nonprofit Management Institute at Stanford.
Nonprofit Management
Happy-Face Blues
How supervisors exhaust their workers by constraining their emotions.
Health
Your Brain on Drug Addicts
Recent neuroscience research confirms that people - and the brains they contain - view drug addicts as not quite human.
Nonprofit Management
Review: Toxic Emotions at Work
Organizations need to get better at talking about feelings.
Nonprofits
Fishing for Donations
Why nonprofits should let donors give back their fundraising incentives.
Business
The Crown Weighs Heavily on the Eyelids
Why the powerful have a hard time taking other people’s perspectives.
Civil Society
It Takes a Stick
The most generous societies in the world are also the most punishing.