In the study conducted by Brooks, Church and Fraser (2001), 60 male and 60 female American students viewed videotapes of models who maintained eye contact with another person for either 5 s, 30 s, or 50 s. Eye contact was spaced out in the form of glances. After viewing the tape, participants were asked to rate the model based on 21 bipolar adjectives, such as “not ambitious/ambitious,” “indecisive/decisive,” and “unaggressive/aggressive.”
Eye contact is one of the first nonverbal behaviors to be noticed by an interviewer and is an important factor in creating impressions of others (Beebe, 1977). In a study published in the Journal of Social Psychology, models who made longer and more frequent eye contact were perceived to be more dominant, strong, mature and efficient than those who made less eye contact.
In the study conducted by Brooks, Church and Fraser (2001), 60 male and 60 female American students viewed videotapes of models who maintained eye contact with another person for either 5 s, 30 s, or 50 s. Eye contact was spaced out in the form of glances. After viewing the tape, participants were asked to rate the model based on 21 bipolar adjectives, such as “not ambitious/ambitious,” “indecisive/decisive,” and “unaggressive/aggressive.”
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Sometimes to be creative, one must believe in their creative capabilities. When believing isn't enough, it helps to have a diverse work team whose skills you can tap into.
In a recent study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers found that the team provides informational resources that help workers high in creative self-efficacy (CSE) realize their individual creativity. CSE is an individual’s belief that they have the knowledge and skills to produce creative ideas and outcomes. Because the relationship between CSE and individual creativity is not very strong, researchers began questioning if contextual factors, such as the team, played a role in the effect. In a survey involving 176 R&D team members from one multinational company, researchers examined the relationships between two key team resources and CSE. The two resources were shared knowledge If you had these in your wallet, which one are you more inclined to spend? A study in the Journal of Consumer Research says the worn bill will be spent when we are in private, and the crisp when we are under the watch of others. Money is the object of many idioms. Sometimes it is the center of all evil, other times it funds happiness. What we can all agree on, though, is that money is fungible – a fancy word for saying that we would freely exchange our 20 dollar bill in return for a different 20 dollar bill. However, a recent study in the Journal of Consumer Research has shown that bills of the same value can be “treated differently” by the average consumer, depending on whether the bills look new or dirty.
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About the AuthorEureka Foong has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Linfield College, Oregon. She is a surfer of the digital kind and is curious about the way we view others, learn languages, and are affected by the media.
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