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For many years, especially before our son was born, I was the breadwinner in the family.  It didn't really seem to bother my husband too much as it made it easier for him to play tennis during the day.  But a new study says that husbands' stress increases if wives earn 40% more of the  household income than they do. According to newswise.com, h usbands are least stressed when their wives earn up to 40% of household income but they become increasingly uncomfortable as their spouse's wages rise beyond that point and are most stressed when they are entirely economically dependent on their partner, new research from the University of Bath shows. "The study of over 6,000 American heterosexual couples over 15 years showed husbands are at their most anxious when they are the sole breadwinner, shouldering all the burden of responsibility for the household's finances," the web site relates. "Stress levels decline as their wives' earnings approach 40% of ...

It probably should come as no surprise but even after "Me, Too," almost half the people who harass others at work can go back to work as if nothing happened, according to a new study as reported by newswise.com. New research from Michigan State University revealed that almost half of accused harassers can go back to work when disputes are settled by arbitrators – or, third-parties who resolve disputes.  The findings, published by the Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal, newswise.com reports, closely examine the outcomes of arbitration awards involving harassers, as well as providing insight as to whether arbitration is the best solution to addressing workplace harassment.  “With all of the issues our society is facing right now, I wanted to figure out why we weren’t doing a better job addressing harassment in the workplace,” the web site quotes Stacy Hickox, associate professor in MSU’s School of Human Resources and Labor Relations. “I knew that it was challeng...

Bottom line.  Bottom line .  That's all we hear from CEOs spouting off about how great their companies are doing. But now a new study says that focusing so much on that can actually hurt the company, according to newswise.com. "Doing business with a tunnel-vision focus on the bottom line can lead to dysfunction and unethical conduct in the workplace, but a research study co-authored by Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations Professor Rebecca Greenbaum reveals why some CEO’s and organizations are willing to take the chance: sometimes it pays off," the web site reports.  Researchers conducted a global survey of more than 400 workers and their clients across a wide range of industries to understand what happens when top management adopts a “bottom-line mentality,” in which the narrow focus on a single goal—typically profits—outweighs all other organizational values. The findings reveal that some employees do break the rules in a bottom-line environment, but ...

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...