| Date |
Author |
Category |
Title |
| Spring 2007 |
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Global Issues • Health • Civil Society |
Your Brain on Drug Addicts
Recent neuroscience research confirms that people - and the brains they contain - view drug addicts as not quite human.
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| Winter 2005 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
Happy-Face Blues
How supervisors exhaust their workers by constraining their emotions.
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| Summer 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Global Issues • Health |
Stopping the Spread of Trauma
Many Iraq War veterans can't shake the feeling of being constantly imperiled, and their therapists, in turn, may develop traumatic stress symptoms themselves. A new study tells how organizations can protect their frontline providers from psychic distress.
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| Summer 2007 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Business • Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society |
Putting Women in Their Place
Which woman is more likely to attract unpleasant sexual attention: the office sweetheart or the ambitious upstart? A new study by social psychologist Jennifer Berdahl points to the upstart. From her findings, Berdahl concludes that “men aren’t harassing women to get into their pants, but to put them down....”
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| Fall 2007 |
|
Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Government • Social Policy • Global Issues • Civil Society |
The Sound of One Trap Flapping
How the vocal few can skew perceptions of public opinion.
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| Spring 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Aim for the Middle
To persuade a whole group, start by changing the minds of a few moderates.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Philanthropy • Altruism • Nonprofits • Fundraising • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Research: Help People Do the Right Thing
Just do it...later.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Research: Catching Charisma
Charismatic people spread happiness and well-being.
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| Fall 2008 |
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Global Issues • Poverty • Health • Civil Society |
Research: Bad ’Hoods, Naughty Kids
The violence, noise, and crowding of poor neighborhoods stress kids and parents, bringing out their bad sides and breeding psychopathology.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Global Issues • Environment • Civil Society |
Research: The Ties That Mobilize
Group attachment and commitment are what drive protesters to act.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Fundraising |
Research: Emotional Brands Bring the Bucks [Free!]
Research shows branding differentiates nonprofits in stakeholders' minds.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management • Nonprofit Leadership |
Research: Objects of Power
Leaders should rethink how they treat their subordinates.
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| Winter 2009 |
|
Global Issues • Civil Society |
Research: We Hate Heroes
We don't necessarily like people who do the right thing.
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| Winter 2009 |
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Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society |
Research: Starting Up Women
Successful entrepreneurs show characteristics of both men and women.
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| Winter 2009 |
|
Social Innovations • Global Issues • Civil Society • Reviews |
Great Minds Think Different [Free!]
Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently by Gregory Berns
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| Spring 2009 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Leadership • Government • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Research: Change Takes New Leaders
New leaders are initially given special license to shake things up.
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| Spring 2009 |
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Nonprofits • Nonprofit Management |
Research: Busy Jobs Send Most Volunteers
Research finds that men in busy jobs are the most likely to donate their time to volunteer.
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| Spring 2009 |
|
Government • Social Policy • Government Programs |
Research: Partners Must Start Smart
Starting on the right terms fosters the trust necessary for partners to work together over the long haul.
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| Spring 2009 |
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Government • Global Issues • Human Rights • Civil Society |
Research: Not Racing to Help
Racism may have played a role in the government's delayed response to Katrina.
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| Spring 2009 |
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Social Innovations • Cause Marketing • Nonprofits • Nonprofit Organizations • Government • Global Issues • Civil Society |
Millennials MoveOn [Free!]
To propel young folks to the polls, a political organization mixed Web 2.0 tools with social science savvy.
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