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Surprise!  Women CEOs are judged more harshly for corporate-ethical failures . According to newswise.com, p eople are less likely to support an organization after an ethical failure if the business is led by a woman, the American Psychological Association reports. However, organizations led by women endure less negative backlash for competence failures than those headed by men. “Our study found that consumers’ trust in, and willingness to support, an organization after a failure varied based on the gender of the organization’s leader and the type of incident,” says Nicole Votolato Montgomery, PhD, of the University of Virginia and lead author of the study, at the site. “Women incur greater penalties for ethical transgressions because of persistent gender stereotypes that tend to categorize women as having more communal traits than men, such as being more likable, sensitive and supportive of others. Even in leadership settings, women are still expected to be more communal ...

How many times have you rehearsed telling your partner bad news?  Honey, I rammed the car through the beauty shop window.  But no one was hurt! Now a new study says that anticipating  performance before a school or work presentation can cause you not to remember what happened before the event. So who cares?  According to newswise.com,  "Performance anticipation could weaken memory because people tend to focus on the details of their upcoming presentation instead of paying attention to information that occurs before their performance," says lead author Noah Forrin, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology at Waterloo.   "People who experience performance anxiety may be particularly likely to experience this phenomenon." Building on what previous research called the next-in-line effect , Forrin and his co-authors explored how different ways of preparing for a presentation can have an impact on the " pre-performance memory deficit, " the web site report...

So you thought all you had to do to shine at a meeting was strike a pose ?  Not exactly, according to newswise.com. Striking a power pose before an important meeting or interview is not going to boost your confidence or make you feel more powerful, says an Iowa State University researcher. "The concept of power posing – think of a Wonder Woman stance – gained popularity after a 2010 study reported that people who adopted an expansive physical pose decreased cortisol levels (an indicator of stress ), increased testosterone levels and felt more powerful and willing to take risks. However, Marcus Credé, an associate professor of  psychology  at Iowa State, says there is not a single study to support the claims that power posing works," writes the web site. Researchers were criticized because the results could not be replicated. In 2018, the researchers responded to critics by presenting an updated analysis of their own research and other studies on power posing to ...

I used it to get my toddler to stop fussing and it worked every time (now that he's 18, not so much).  But now a new study says that distraction is not always such a good thing. Distraction, it claims,  might change our perception of what’s real, making us believe we saw something different from what we actually saw. Even more troubling, the study suggests people might not realize their perception has changed – to the contrary, they might feel great confidence in what they think they saw, according to newswise.com. I guess maybe this is what Trump is suggesting when he says things on tape that he later says he never said.  Anyway. "We wanted to find out what happens if you’re trying to pay attention to one thing and something else interferes,” newswise quotes  Julie Golomb , senior author and associate professor of   psychology at The Ohio State University . “Our visual environment contains 'way too many things for us to process in a given moment, so...

9/11 Is Never Over https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/opinion/article/Deborah-DiSesa-Hirsch-9-11-is-never-over-14436154.php?fbclid=IwAR06ddHUvwesuf9BPT0QxriFbtU8rigMP1Y3KDqbFgeNN-A-uSDKRvvvci8

Now, I'm not one to always mind when people are politically incorrect  but there are times when I find it, well, a little abhorrent. Does using the term "fat" come to mind when it's better to say, "overweight" or maybe, "pleasingly plump?"  Though I do admit that, with the shows about the people 600 pounds and over, it might be a little incorrect to call them chunky. In any event, a new study says that  using politically incorrect speech brings some benefits: It’s a powerful way to appear authentic , according to newswise.com.   I guess that's some of the "charm" (yes, I'm being politically correct) of the president.  When he calls immgrants "illegals," and neo-Nazis some "fine people," many of his supporters says he's just being authentic. But there's authentic and then there's just plain spitefulness, at least to my way of thinking.  But some experts disagree.. “The cost of political in...

I remember being at a friend's house recently and she said, "Alexa, play 'Uh Oh,'" and it (she?) did, and I thought, hmm, I wonder who else is listening in? Turns out your devices are. " We have become accustomed to carrying our mobile phones and tablet devices everywhere we go," says newswise.com. The mobile phone has essentially become an extension of our bodies, helping us to communicate, make payments and socialize.  Unfortunately, the web site goes on, the smart devices of today are equipped with many different types of sensors that may be listening in on our conversations. The heat gets turned on in our homes by a computer.  Cameras scan our property.  Our billing is often handled electronically.  Don't you think the people behind these machines are listening, and recording our lives, too? “In reality, we have threats from two directions — malicious apps that hijack the phone sensors to spy on us, and otherwise benign apps secretly...