Certain people seem so effortlessly influential, they make you wonder if they were born with some magical quality. But after researching human behavior for 15 years, I have good news. Influence is a ...

Leaders in business exert power over the people under their authority in the workplace. Yet not all power is the same – and it's if used improperly, it can be detrimental to a leader's overall ...

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” —paraphrased quote from Mahatma Gandhi Where does a leader’s power come from? In their landmark 1959 report often referenced in leadership theory, social ...

is a writer and adult educator from London. He was the recipient of the 2022 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. When I first read Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations, I ...

How can that be? In this case, it wasn’t a matter of miscommunication. You both spoke clearly and concisely, listening, smiling, and making eye contact. And the discussion was no big deal — to you. To ...

Power (e.g., empowerment, powerlessness) is an important topic of study in human sciences. In this post, I discuss power using the example of Donald Trump. From becoming US president despite lacking ...

As the owner of a small business who is trying to raise up a generation of leaders behind me, this question has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s especially pertinent when you are trying to promote ...

Many Americans see declining levels of trust in the country, whether it is their confidence in the federal government and elected officials or their trust of each other, a new Pew Research Center ...

Normative information has a powerful effect on food intake and food selection. People tend to use the eating behavior of others as a reference for their own eating behaviors and match their intake to ...

Oscillatory neural dynamics have been steadily receiving more attention as a robust and temporally precise signature of network activity related to language processing. We have recently proposed that ...