In everyday conversations, the words we choose can greatly impact how others perceive us. Good-hearted people often aim to maintain harmony at the expense of their own personal boundaries. And the ...

We all know how important it is to make a good first impression. The positive or negative feelings about us that a person develops during our initial interaction with them set the course for the ...

Business decision makers sometimes face adversarial priorities when it comes to decision making. In the interest of furthering the business, good decisions must be grounded in research, forethought, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. author of Chained to the Desk in a Hybrid World: A Guide to Balance. On average the adult human mind makes 33,000 to 35,000 total ...

Nowadays, we have a problem of identities. Take Slovaks, for example: Who are we? A hundred years ago, it was easy; we were Czechoslovakia, there were borders, we had some manufacturers, we had an ...

Ward Edwards, an American psychologist born in 1927, developed much of our early thinking on why and how we make the decisions we do. He argued strongly that we shouldn’t judge how good our decisions ...

Alexander Todorov is the Leon Carroll Marshall Professor of Behavioral Science and a Richard Rosett Faculty Fellow at Chicago Booth. First impressions are based on faces and can be made in a tenth of ...