Dirty tricks in negotiation

How to recognise and counteract them It's not uncommon to encounter dirty tricks in negotiation. Even the most conservative and credible opponents can deploy a trick or two to help them win.

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A psychologist explains how to beat social anxiety

Clinical psychologist Ellen Hendriksen is the author of the new book How to Be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety. She talks to us about most helpful techniques to combat social anxiety, daring to be average, and why most people's social skills are just fine.

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This Is The Most Fun Way To Make Your Life Awesome (Pandemic Edition) - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

It was 1962, the girls wouldn't stop laughing and nobody knew why. And even stranger, the laughter was spreading. Like a virus. This was at an all-girls school in Kashasha, Tanzania. A few students had started laughing and they couldn't stop. And this inexplicable behavior spread from girl to girl until 95 of the 159 students were affected.

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Why We Worry (and How to Stop)

I had a client, once, who summed up her problems with anxiety in colorfully pithy terms: If I spent a quarter of the time and energy I spend worrying about work on actually doing work, I'd be retired on a tropical beach drinking mai tais in my hammock every morning instead of being the ball of stress that I am.

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The Decision Matrix: How to Prioritize What Matters

The decisions we spend the most time on are rarely the most important ones. Not all decisions need the same process. Sometimes, trying to impose the same process on all decisions leads to difficulty identifying which ones are most important, bogging us down and stressing us out.

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How to Read Body Language and Facial Expressions

Body language refers to the nonverbal signals that we use to communicate. According to experts, these nonverbal signals make up a huge part of daily communication. From our facial expressions to our body movements, the things we don't say can still convey volumes of information.

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7 Steps to Heal a Broken Heart

"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" is not just a hit song from the 1960s-it is a fact. Anyone who has gone through a breakup knows that a broken heart can be difficult to mend. This universal emotional response to the sudden, unexpected, or unwanted loss of love is often characterized by an intense longing, hurt, and/or desire for an ex or unrequited love.

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How to Control Your Emotions at Work: Know When to Act or Ignore

It turns out that you can train yourself to better understand your own emotions, control them and make other people want to work with you more.This sort of training creates more successful employees and managers. So much so that Google sponsored a program to help increase the emotional intelligence...

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The Origins of Psychology: History Through the Years

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How to Not Attribute to Malice Things Adequately Explained by Stupidity

We humans crave a perfectly ordered world though the chances of something going as intended is fairly rare. When there’s more than one human being involved in the equation, the predictability goes for a further toss. What do we do when things do not turn out as intended? Instead of being curious and trying to learn from the situation, our mind assumes the worst possibility.

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Selfishness vs Empathy (Solutions)

🖖 The Path is the Goal

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How to get over ‘never good enough’

Learn to spot unhealthy perfectionism, understand its emotional sources and find a way to silence that self-critical voice

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Study Reveals The 6 Key Components Of An Effective Apology

The news is often filled with cringe-worthy apologies that make a leader or a politician lose even more favor. Saying things like, "I'm sorry if you were hurt," or "I am sorry people were offended," comes across as phony and insincere. Such non-apology apologies do nothing to remedy the situation.

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Life lessons from ancient Greece

After Helen Rudd sustained traumatic injuries in a traffic accident, she lay in a coma for three weeks. "I had to learn everything again. I had to learn to read and write," says Rudd. Her life had changed completely and she needed a different outlook.

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What Personality Theories in Psychology May Tell You About Yours

Learn about personality psychology with an explanation of the theories and important figures in the study of personality.

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Build Self-Discipline By Forming These Habits - Darius Foroux

Without self-discipline, we will revert back to giving up. Because whether you’re aware of it or not, we’re all headed towards chaos.

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The Big Five personality traits and what they mean to psychologists

At the topmost level, there are two types of people in the world: Those who think personality types can be categorized and those who can't. Among those in the first group are psychologists who began developing a system for classifying personality traits based on an analysis of language way back in the 1880s.

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What is Self-Reliance and How to Develop It?

Self-reliance is all that it sounds like plus considerably more. If not introduced to the world by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was definitely brought to much popular public awareness by his 1841 essay Self-Reliance. In positive psychology, self-reliance has strong theoretical significance thanks to its implications for happiness.

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What are your personal values?

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The Law of Unintended Consequences

Sometimes the solution to a problem is worse than the problem itself. It's the Law of Unintended Consequences—and it's more common than you think.

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