Jeremy Dean's Blog, page 817

How To Set Better Goals: Avoid Four Common Mistakes

Badly set goals can degrade performance, motivate unethical behaviour and damage organisations.

→ Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

6 Quick Tips To Get Your Brain in High Gear Fast

How to attack your to-do list with visualisation, mental contrasting, creative distance and more...

→ Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

4 Dark Sides To The Pursuit of Happiness

Fake smile? Here's how to avoid four hurdles on the road to happiness.

→ Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself

Tickling robot reveals the mysteries of why we can't tickle ourselves.

→ Jeremy Dean is a psychologist and author of PsyBlog. His latest book is
"Making Habits, Breaking Habits: How to Make Changes That Stick"

One Extra Hour of TV Reduces Toddlers’ Kindergarten Chances

Each extra hour of TV damages toddlers' vocab, math and class engagement 3 years later.

→ The full article is available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.

Why Controversy Stops People Talking

Too much controversy stops conversations.

→ The full article is available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.

Tidy or Messy Desk: Which is Best For The Mind?

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?" —Albert Einstein

→ The full article is available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.

8 Easy Bodily Actions That Transform Mental Performance

Jump for joy, confuse for creativity, relax for better decisions, open up for pain tolerance and more...

→ The full article is available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.

How Just One Night’s Poor Sleep Can Hurt a Relationship

Study tracked couple's sleep and their arguments to reveal how the damage was done.

→ The full article is available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.

4 Qualities of Truly Horrible Managers

Fifty per cent of managers are incompetent, so how did that idiot get to be your boss?

→ The full text of the article is currently only available on the website. Please click through to PsyBlog.