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 judgments about people we meet. But in doing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One day, after being sent home on a mandatory furlough, a group of employees at the Arizona Department of Security were being paid overtime to catch up on their backlog. “Only in government,” State ...

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 ...

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 ...