Links

A variety of links off to studies and articles that support the concepts covered in this site. Unconscious behaviour, neuroscience, psychology, etc.

2024-02-25 Rewiring decision-making: The promising path to overcoming cognitive bias
2024-01-20 Study of middle-school children showing that they retain more information when reading from a paper book rather than from a digital screen.
2024-01-15 The miracle question in coaching: A neuroscience perspective. The miracle question is something like “Imagine a miracle happened overnight and all your problems went away. What would that be like?”
2022-03-25 Team flow appears to be a distinct brain state, according to new research
2021-09-26 Many executives are falling victim to a number of well-known psychological biases in their push to end remote working
2021-08-20 Researchers Doubt That Certain Mental Disorders Are Disorders At All
2021-08-10 The Neuroscience of Breaking Out of Negative Thinking (and How to Do It in Under 30 Seconds)
2021-07-29 Remember more by taking breaks Longer breaks during learning lead to more stable activation patterns in the brain.
2021-06-20 ‘Mozart effect’: Listening to composer’s Sonata For Two Pianos K448 can prevent epileptic seizures, study finds Experts believe the results may pave way for the development of personalised music therapy for the prevention and management of epileptic seizures.
2021-06-16 Comparing participants’ brainwaves during solo, pair and mob programming A very early study on brain activity during programming work.
2021-05-21 Hypnosis Changes the Way Our Brain Processes Information
2021-04-13 Why do we have emotions? What evolutionary advantage do emotions provide?
2021-03-11 Four reasons why zoom can be exhausting. The first peer reviewed study on “zoom fatigue”
2020-11-20 A groundbreaking Stanford University study explains the areas of the brain that are impacted by hypnosis.
2020-08-13 Researchers doubt that certain mental disorders are disorders at all
2020-06-30 Microexpressions Differentiate Truths from Lies about Future Malicious Intent “While there has been a general consensus that microexpressions play a significant role in deception detection for decades, in reality there had never been a research study published in a peer-reviewed, scientific journal that documented that claim. Until now.”
2020-06-26 Power Poses - another study There had been some doubt shed on Dr Amy Cuddy’s research on power poses and this study vindicates her original work. Power poses do work. It was a meta-analysis of 73 studies, conducted by an independent research team. Effects on emotions & behaviors are “robust.”
2020-05-15 Neuroscience study uncovers new details about the intimate link between sleep and anxiety
2019-11-07 What hypnosis does to your brain, and how it can improve your health
2019-09-25 The thinking benefits of doodling
2019-09-01 This Is Your Brain On Storytelling: The Chemistry Of Modern Communication Interesting article on some of the chemistry (neurotransmitters) involved during story telling
2019-08-23 Mindfulness meditation alters neurophysiological characteristics that are linked to anxiety and depression
2019-08-15 Neuroscientists have identified how exactly a deep breath changes your mind “This recent study finally answers these questions by showing that volitionally controlling our respirational, even merely focusing on one’s breathing, yield additional access and synchrony between brain areas. This understanding may lead to greater control, focus, calmness, and emotional control.”
2019-05-23 Vagus Nerve Stimulation Dramatically Reduces Inflammation
2019-05-20 I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being
2019-04-21 Neuroscientists can read brain activity to predict decisions 11 seconds before people act In a study published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers in Australia were able to predict basic choices participants made 11 seconds before they consciously declared their decisions.
2019-04-19 Gut Branches of the Vagus Nerve Are Essential Components of the Brain’s Reward and Motivation System
2019-04-16 “Hyperscans” Show How Brains Sync as People Interact The evidence is growing, says psychiatrist and social neuroscientist Leonhard Schilbach of the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, that “social cognition is fundamentally different when you’re directly engaged with another person as opposed to observing another person.
2019-04-06 20 Minute Contact with Nature Reduces Stress Hormone Cortisol Taking at least twenty minutes out of your day to stroll or sit in a place that makes you feel in contact with nature will significantly lower your stress hormone levels. That’s the finding of a study that has established for the first time the most effective dose of an urban nature experience.
2019-03-24 A Brain Motivated to Play: Insights into the Neurobiology of Playfulness There is ample evidence that engaging in play as a juvenile leads to an adult that is better able to navigate an ever-changing social, emotional, and cognitive landscape (Vanderschuren & Trezza, 2014)
2019-03-21 Stress-related hormone cortisol lowers significantly after just 45 minutes of art creation
2019-03-10 Science Has Just Confirmed That If You’re Not Outside Your Comfort Zone, You’re Not Learning
2019-02-02 Learning New Vocabulary During Deep Sleep
2019-01-12 What Cirque du Soleil can tell us about the neuroscience of awe
2018-12-15 Need to remember something? Draw it
2018-12-06 Defeating Fear Depends on Amygdala Suppression
2018-11-29 The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults
2018-11-25 Workers Who Commute Through Nature Report Better Mental Health
2018-11-24 The act of drawing something has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing it down
2018-11-24 Neuroscience of singing
2018-10-27 Rhythm of Breathing Affects Memory and Fear “Breathing is not just for oxygen; it’s now linked to brain function and behavior.”
2018-10-13 How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
2018-09-23 Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit
2018-09-12 People Are Now Taking Placebo Pills to Deal With Their Health Problems—And It’s Working
2018-09-05 A fighter pilots guide to surviving on the roads Understanding how vision works
2018-08-30 Nose breathing in yoga may calm the mind by slowing brainwaves
2018-08-21 Sitting for long hours found to reduce blood flow to the brain
2018-08-06 Botox silences women’s faces – and freezes out empathy in body language
2018-08-03 Even Being Just a Little Dehydrated Makes It Harder to Think, Study Reveals
2018-07-26 Why our brains see the world as us vs them
2018-07-01 The reason why women’s voices are deeper today
2018-06-20 The Japanese practice of ‘forest bathing’ is scientifically proven to improve your health
2018-06-19 ‘Gut Instinct’ May Have Been the GPS of Human Ancestors
2018-05-30 Unique neuronal firing patterns in our “second brain” observed for the first time Research into the gut brain
2018-05-29 What’s Going On In Your Child’s Brain When You Read Them A Story?
2018-05-24 The “coffee shop effect”: Why changing your location boosts your productivity
2018-05-23 The feet and legs: A nonverbal primer What can we learn from body language? Joe Navarro explains some of those things that we can learn.
2018-05-21 Grocery shoppers buy more food when the music is slower Our environment influences us far more than most people realize - all at an unconscious level. “With fast music playing, the Dallas grocery store did about $12,000 in sales each day. With slow music: $16,000. Interestingly, most of the shoppers, when asked upon leaving the store about hearing music, didn’t recall whether or not they heard music.”
2018-05-21 The surprising thing Google learned about its employees and what it means for todays students TL;DR summary: Soft skills are more important than hard skills, even in tech heavy companies like Google.
2018-05-21 Dealing with surprising human emotions: desk moves
2018-05-21 Getting people addicted to social media Matt Mayberry, who works at a California startup called Dopamine Labs, says it’s common knowledge in the industry that Instagram exploits this craving by strategically withholding “likes” from certain users. If the photo-sharing app decides you need to use the service more often, it’ll show only a fraction of the likes you’ve received on a given post at first, hoping you’ll be disappointed with your haul and check back again in a minute or two. “They’re tying in to your greatest insecurities,” Mr. Mayberry said.
2018-05-21 Philiy Lander on using neuroscience to become a better agile coach.
2018-05-21 Metaphors can change our opinions in ways we don’t even realize If you’ve worked with clean language, you’ve already seen this in action, even if you didn’t realize what it was doing.
2018-05-20 Kids perform better during boring tasks when dressed as Batman, new research finds Trying to focus on a task and finding yourself particularly unresourceful or distracted? You’re in the wrong ego state and need to find a way to switch to a better one. Here’s a fun way.
2018-05-20 Study identifies brain areas altered during hypnotic trances
2018-05-20 “You’re getting very curious” - Scientists discover how hypnosis actually works
2018-05-20 Cialdini on persuassion In this video, Dr. Robert Cialdini and Steve Martin talk about some of the science of persuasion. Very relevant for scrum masters, other servant leaders, and generally anyone who interacts with other people.
2018-05-20 Keyboards are overrated. Cursive is back and it’s making us smarter “Brain scans during the two activities [writing vs typing] also show that forming words by hand as opposed to on a keyboard leads to increased brain activity. Scientific studies of children and adults show that wielding a pen when taking notes, rather than typing, is associated with improved long-term information retention, better thought organization, and increased ability to generate ideas.”
2018-05-20 Brain activity boosted by these childhood activities Is someone doodling during your meeting? Perhaps you should encourage that.
2018-05-20 Five subtle body language clues that someone is in deep psychological distress