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Pondy's Model of Organizational Conflict
What is Pondy's Model of Organizational Conflict? Pondy's model of organizational conflict was formulated in 1967, defining the conflict process as a dynamic among individuals, and is made up of five stages of conflict: latent stage,...
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Personality
What is Personality? How does it related to organizational behavior? Personality refers to the combination of a person's characteristics that make them unique and of a distinctive character, and it forms the basis for individual...
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Perception
What is Perception? How does perception relate to organizational behavior? Perception in Organisational Behavior is defined as the process by which an individual selects, organizes and interprets stimuli into a meaningful and coherent...
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Normative Decision Model
What is Vroom and Yetton's Normative Decision Model? The Vroom-Yetton model is designed to help you to identify the best decision-making approach and leadership style to take, based on your current situation.
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Mental Frame
What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...
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Leadership Traits
What are Leadership Traits? Trait leadership is defined as integrated patterns of personal characteristics that reflect a range of individual differences and foster consistent leader effectiveness across a variety of group and...
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Reconciliation All Around
Primatologist Frans de Waal (Emory) describes how chimpanzees, along with many other species, reconcile after fights.
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Neuroimpulsivity?
Duke University legal scholar Nita Farahany describes how modern neuroscience is affecting our legal understanding of what it means to act in a premeditated fashion, and of what it means to be responsible for our actions.
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Attribution Theory and Social Psychology Explained with Examples - Simplest explanation ever
As we all know, human beings tend to judge people based on their actions and tend to draw conclusions on people's personalities and inner character. Attribution theory delves into this tendency and the process we follow when we connect...
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Playing on a Train
Mathematician Ian Stewart describes how a momentary diversion to pass the time on a train developed into a deep insight on the nature of symmetric networks, with potential applications for how the brain works.
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Different Domains
UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay contrasts the political domain with the scientific one, explaining that it’s important to recognize that the two are distinct, believing it would be a very bad idea to try to recreate politics in the...
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Understanding Incentives
Legal scholar Emilie Hafner-Burton (UCSD) discusses the importance of understanding the incentives of those who commit human rights abuses.
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Character Traits in Drama
Character Traits in Drama explains the importance of character traits in a drama by exploring physical appearance, behavior, and interactions with others.
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Responding to Stimuli
Responding to Stimuli gives examples of stimuli organisms receive in their environment through example of plants and animals.
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Changing Traits for Adaptation
Changing Traits for Adaptation recognizes that inherited traits of animals can change over time to adapt to their environment for survival.
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Changing Cultural Values
Andrew Hoffman, Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, discusses how to get people to start being more environmentally sensitive.
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Biology and Criminality
Nita Farahany, Professor of Law & Philosophy at Duke University, discusses the future of criminality in light of the evolving science of human behaviour.
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The Power of Habits
There’s lots of advice around about the study habits students should be developing to help them succeed. But that still leaves a big question. How do they develop the good habits that are going to get them the best grades? In a series of...
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Why Study Psychology
In this video, we will explore eight reasons to study psychology.
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Optimism, Confirmed
Emory University anthropologist and bestselling author Frans de Waal relates how many aspects of his intuitively optimistic view of human and animal nature became confirmed through his many concrete experimental tests.
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Beyond Reflex
UCLA psychologist Martin Monti relates his experience studying minimally conscious patients in an effort to probe the limits of consciousness, describing how distinguishing between conscious acts and mere reflex is sometimes much harder...
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Harnessing Positive Emotions
Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson (UNC Chapel Hill) discusses her research on The Undoing Effect and Upward Spirals, two ways of directly applying her insights on positive emotions.
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Embracing Our Biology
Philosopher Patricia Churchland (UC San Diego) describes some implications of fully recognizing that our minds are a manifestation of our underlying brain biology.
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Against "A Few Bad Apples"
Psychologist Philip Zimbardo (Stanford) describes how the official U.S. Government reaction to the horrific abuses at Abu Ghraib prison committed by American soldiers is an all-too-typical denial of the powerful situational effects on...