Source Can you imagine getting off a roller coaster ride and falling in love with the first attractive person you see as you leave the ride?...
Friday Fun: Are you a fantasizer?
Source With all of the season finales happening on tv the past few weeks, I've been in a bit of a funk. I feel like some of my good frie...
Can casseroles cure loneliness?
Comfort food After a painful break-up or a bad fight, many people turn to the comfort of food to fill the void and soothe their emotional pa...
How to get to the gym when you would rather sit on the couch.
source For months now a good friend has been trying to convince me to run a half marathon with him. Each time the conversation comes up I ca...
But that’s not all! The art (and science) of persuasion
Source When I was in elementary school, there was a brief period where I was a member of the Campfire Kids (imagine a knockoff Girls Scouts ...
Office Politics: The Game Everyone Plays
How to Win in a World Where Hard Work and Talent Aren't Enough! Believe it or not, almost every workplace is a political environment. Wh...
Power Corrupts? Research Says, "Not Always..."
Did power lead to Arnold's infidelity? source "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord Acton (18...
Akhtaboot Parterns with KFUPM's for the 28th Career Day - Dhahran, KSA
Dhahran, May 23, 2011: For the 3rd time in a row, Akhtaboot – the career network partners with King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral...
Friday Fun: What's your attachment style?
Is Edward being too clingy? In romantic relationships, we all have our MOs. Some people tend to be more clingy and needy of affection, where...
Initial leanings: When names become destiny
Source Have you ever noticed that a person's name resembles their profession, their significant other's name, or some other importan...
Akhtaboot Makes Jordan’s Fastest Growing Companies List
Akhtaboot – the career network is proud to announce that it has earned the honor of being included to the “Jordan Fast Growth 30” List, a p...
Akhtaboot as Online Recruitment Partner in P&G Saudi Arabia University Campaign
Akhtaboot is proud to announce that it has been chosen by Proctor and Gamble - a Fortune 500 multinational manufacturer of consumer g...
Job Market Looking Up For Grads
College grads stepping into a better economy Reprinted with permission from hattiesburgamerican.com . Tweet In between finishing her m...
Making the most of it when your partner shares good news
Source A job offer. A great haircut. A promotion. A good visit with an old friend. An award recognizing your effort. A great comeback to a m...
Video Games and Violence: The Debate Rages On
We're combining science and video games! ( source ) I think people who play video games are well aware of the public debate over the lin...
College Grad Stays Positive And Makes A Difference
An ambitious young job seeker Reprinted with permission from msstate.edu . Tweet STARKVILLE, Miss.--Some recent college graduates may ...
The Unfaithful: Who is most likely to cheat?
Another celebrity love child scandal As a culture, we are fascinated with infidelity - philandering politicians and celebrities always make ...
One cookie or Two: Part 3
source Today I will wrap up this mini-series on delay of gratification . What have you learned from parts 1 and 2 ? Delay of gratification ...
What not to do in your relationships: Gottman's "four horsemen of the apocalypse"
Source The last time you got into a fight with someone close to you, what emotions did you feel? How did you act? Did you criticize the ot...
The Akhtaboot Social Platform is Enhanced with Recommendations on Facebook
In yet another step towards providing robust career networking functionality via social media, Akhtaboot – the career network ( http://www.a...
Student Loans: Parents signing on for them?
Students get financial reinforcements Tweet Many families are making plans to pack up the belongings of their recent high-school gradu...
Reflections on National Pride, Group Cohesion, and the Death of Osama Bin Laden
source "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall." -- biblical proverb "(Pride) is the crown of the vi...
Friday Fun: When Your Research Goes Rogue
Technically, we were on the cover! In my very brief academic career it has been fun and gratifying to receive attention from the mainstream ...
Science and The Secret: Can beliefs create reality?
Source A few years ago a book and film called The Secret took the country by storm, partly thanks to Oprah's glowing endorsement. I...
One cookie or two: Part 2
source Last week I introduced you to work on delay of gratification – the ability to forgo an immediate, but less desirable reward, in or...
Will the Prince and Princess get their happily ever after? Only research can tell
Last Friday the world watched with excitement and anticipation as Prince William and Kate Middleton became husband and wife. Now we are lef...
What Kurt Lewin Can Teach Us About Our Genes
Do you know this man? (source) Most people don't know Kurt Lewin, and I think that is a travesty of epic proportions. In the ivory tower...
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