Reading Time: 3 minutesThe following is an excerpt from my book. This is the first of a three-part series on body language. Part 2: Reading Male Body Language Part 3: Using Body Language to Boost Sales and Enhance Presentations The study of human body language is one of the most interesting subsets of Psychology. A basic understanding of common body […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesIf you like Monopoly, you’ll love this post. I wrote a piece for CurrentPhotographer.com on lessons we can learn from the game of Monopoly. Current Photographer has some great articles for artists, photographers and techies alike. Trevor Current, photographer and website founder, has done work for the likes of Sony Corporation and Mars Inc. Here’s
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePerhaps the most pivotal concept in Social Psychology is the Fundamental Attribution Error. Understanding this concept can disabuse you of one of the most prevalent cognitive biases in social interaction. The Fundamental Attribution Error explains how we fall short when analyzing the behaviors of those around us. Fundamental Attribution Error: We attribute the behaviors of
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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe following is an excerpt from my book. Have you ever worried that a minor public gaffe would forever ruin your reputation? The following should be very comforting: In 2000, Social Psychologists Thomas Gilovich, Kenneth Savitsky, Victoria Husted Medvec coined a term to explain this sentiment: The Spotlight Effect. Spotlight Effect: We assume that our appearances
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAnother useful tactic to use in a negotiation is Log-rolling. If this phrase conjures up images of a lumberjack balancing on a rolling log, you are on the right track. Log rolling is offering a concession on one issue in a order to gain ground on another one. Negotiations are not always strictly distributive (battling
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAnchoring, as defined by Psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in a 1974 experiment, is an essential psychological process in the arena of sales and persuasion. People tend to rely too heavily on a piece of information when making decisions. We have trouble sufficiently adjusting any resulting estimates or conclusions reached based on the information
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