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• [article] The psychology behind three common job interview questions — 17 Dec 2015
  <p>Job interviews can come in a few different forms. They can be structured or unstructured, single interviewer or a panel, or even the game-show like <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/multiple-mini-interviews-2">future of job interviews</a>, the ‘multiple…
• [article] The secret to remembering — 15 Dec 2015
  <p>Our memory is limited by the context in which we learn, as we have previously explored in depth in our discussion on <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/encoding-specificity">encoding specificity</a>. In essence, the more similar the context in which we a…
• [article] The three aspects of the unique human experience — 10 Dec 2015
  One simple theory that ties together the ways in which humans learn to navigate their world shows that humans aren’t quite as in control of things as they might like to think.
• [article] Three reasons why you’re unhappy in the workplace — 8 Dec 2015
  <p>The Job characteristics model of work design sounds like something you’d read in an employee handbook. Almost designed to put you to sleep. But it’s one of the few models that applies well in an age where complex jobs are the norm. But complexity, or s…
• [article] The psychology behind four horrible job interview questions — 3 Dec 2015
  <p>Job interviews can come in a few different forms. They can be structured or unstructured, single interviewer or a panel, or even the game-show like <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/multiple-mini-interviews-2">future of job interviews</a>, the ‘multiple…
• [article] Seven ways to hack a conversation — 1 Dec 2015
  <p>Starting a conversation with someone new is <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/coming-together#small-talk">always kind of terrifying</a>, I mean <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/approach-anxiety-step-one-to-shaking-it-off">dealing with approach anxiety&lt;/…
• [article] Two ways to beat those early conversation jitters — 27 Nov 2015
  <p>When two people come together for the first time, they engage almost entirely in social scripts, like ‘hi, how are you’ and ‘what do you do for a living’ and the obvious responses to those questions (which often &lt;a href=“https://btr.mt/analects/coming-…
• [article] Useful stereotypes — 25 Nov 2015
  Stereotypes aren’t always harmful. In fact, they’re a pretty crucial tool in human communication. The fact that we can make some instant judgements about people when we first meet them is far more helpful than it is harmful. It’s just that we more often get caught up on the harm. So let’s look at the other side for a change.
• [article] The (game-show like) future of job interviews — 19 Nov 2015
  <p>Job interviews aren’t <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/job-interviews">particularly useful in the way they’re ordinarily conducted</a>. They tend to get used because people think a good hire will be obvious, or that they are good judges of personality …
• [article] How to read research like a pro in five minutes — 18 Nov 2015
  <p>Research can be a crock of shit. Saying that the ‘research says’ doesn’t mean anything if the research is problematic. That’s why, here, we always try to link the article so one can evaluate for oneself. Although, if I’m honest, there are plenty of exa…
• [article] Why other people's failures will stop you from achieving — 13 Nov 2015
  <p>We learn in a number of ways, us clever humans do. From the <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/social-learning">people around us</a>, from the <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/operant-conditioning">consequences of our actions</a> and from the &lt;a href=“ht…
• [article] How to remember effectively (and why you're doing it wrong) — 13 Nov 2015
  <p>The concept of ‘short-term memory’ is flawed. We’ve spoken <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/memory-basics">before</a> about how memory is usually considered in three ‘stores’, long term, short term and sensory. But short-term memory presents a problem,…
• [article] How to boost your 'intelligence' (and what intelligence really is) — 11 Nov 2015
  <p>Intelligence tests are wildly <a href="https://btr.mt/analects/alert-iq-scores-meaningless">over-rated</a>. But tests of general mental ability can be very, very useful. For starters, they are the most consistent thing in terms of their ability to pred…
• [article] Why job interviews make it harder to get a job — 6 Nov 2015
  <p>Would it surprise you to learn job interviews aren’t actually that useful for employers? In fact, in their most common form, job interviews aren’t even necessarily required at all. Why? Well, they come with a number of limitations; they’re very challen…
• [article] Why we ignore the biggest part of who we are — 30 Oct 2015
  <p>Half of what I write here is irrelevant. Oh, it’s probably relevant to <em>you</em>, but you probably only represent roughly 30% of the world. The audience of this site is predominantly from societies dominated by so-called ‘Western’ culture. That mean…