Wouldn’t it be interesting if we could peek inside people’s brains? Well, in a way, it turns out we actually can. And that’s because our EYES are actually a part of our brains. During development in utero, our eyes get squeezed outside of the skull, but they are...
There are several studies on group cooperation that showed that people can be twice as likely to be helpful to another when they’ve experienced some level of behavioral synchrony. Behavioral synchrony simply means that our behaviors match or mirror one another. These...
We’re familiar with the concept of self-care—often made clear by the airplane oxygen-mask metaphor, making sure we put our oxygen-mask on first so that we can stay alive to help others. I am ALL FOR self-care. It’s critical. What I am NOT “ALL FOR” is when self-care...
These days with so many Zoom calls, most of us only see each other from the shoulders or neck up. And that has some interesting and unintended consequences for our ability to connect with one another. It turns out that the brain gives 12.5 times more weight to hand...
I recently watched a TEDx talk by Vanessa Van Edwards called “You Are Contagious.” And she’s not talking about transmission of diseases—which is something we obviously need to be careful about these days. She talked about transmission of emotions. There was some fun...
True confession time – I don’t love getting my photograph taken. As we were working on our new website for The Academies (hoping to launch it soon!), and the team unanimously voted that my picture should be on the home page, I drug my feet and put it off for weeks!...
