Archive for January, 2012

From TED Talks I thought I’d share this video…. Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.   Related articles Motivating Learning (alanjoneseducation.com) [...]

Maslow, a well respected Psychologist, proposed the idea of a Hierarchy of Human Needs. His work is well known, often quoted and sometimes misrepresented by many of the popular writers of psychological thinking. In essence Maslow postulated the following ‘pyramid’ of needs.     At the base of the pyramid we find our ‘Physiological Needs’. [...]

Article Abstract Past studies have revealed that encountering negative events interferes with cognitive processing of subsequent stimuli. The present study investigates whether negative events affect semantic and perceptual processing differently. Presentation of negative pictures produced slower reaction times than neutral or positive pictures in tasks that require semantic processing, such as natural or man-made judgments [...]