Emotionally Intelligent People Make Better Workers

A new study entitled “The Relation Between Emotional Intelligence and Job Performance: A Meta Analysis” will be published in a future issue of the Journal Of Organizational Behavior. The study was conducted at the Virginia Commonwealth University by Drs. Ernest O’Boyle Jr., Ronald Humphrey, Jeffrey Pollack, Thomas Hawver and Paul Story. Emotional intelligence as defined…

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Actions and Emotions

In a recent Psychology Today article, Dr. Noam Shpancer, professor of psychology at Otterbein College, discusses the relationship between actions and emotions. He asserts that our behaviors shape our emotions, contrary to the popular belief that actions result from our feelings. Dr. Shpancer cites the 1971 Stanford prison experiment as a prime example. In this…

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Are Children Good Liars?

Do all children learn to lie?  Can children with mental disabilities also lie? How effective can it be to reason with a child to tell the truth? Well, most of us expect children to lie at some point in their life, even if it is just a white lie. According to an article in the…

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Face Transplant Patient Connie Culp’s Heroric Story

Some of you may have heard the courageous story of Connie Culp, a woman who was shot in the face by her husband in 2004 and was the recipient of the first face transplant in the United States in 2008. Connie’s story is nothing short of inspiring; after losing her cheeks, upper lip, nose and…

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