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Managing your boss
Whether your boss is a lion or a pussycat, it helps to know how to manage upward.

Volunteers Disliked
Employees who readily volunteer even for unwanted tasks tend to be disliked by less selfless colleagues.

Social Interactions Are Intense Experiences
The most intense positive and negative experiences tend to be associated with social interaction rather than individual accomplishment

Rating Others Positively Linked To Emotional Stability
Research led by Wake Forest University identified an association between the degree to which individuals perceive others in positive terms and their own happiness and emotional stability.

Keep Busy, Keep Happy
Individuals who keep busy, even with relatively pointless activity, tend to be happier than those who do not.

Commitment And Counterfactual Reflection
Developing greater workforce commitment can be as simple as asking employees to reflect on their organization's history.

Experiences More Satisfying Than Possessions
Purchasing experiences rather than possessions results in increased well-being for consumers and others around them.

Be Happy - But Not Too Happy
Although women start life happier than men, they experience more difficulty in achieving their goals and end up less happy as a result. Researchers also conclude that happiness is a worthy goal for the unhappy, but the endless pursuit of ever more happiness may be counterproductive.

Instinctive Staring
A study of the instinctive tendency for people in a group to stare at the person most likely to be offended if a controversial comment is made.

New Light On Altruism
New light on ways in which people are prepared to sacrifice personal advantage for the common good and what happens when freeloaders take advantage of their altruism.

Negative Influences
While we tend to believe that we are capable of forming independent opinions, what other people think can influence our conclusions, with negative attitudes resulting in the biggest changes.

Longing Influences Choice
Longing for something intensely (like a holiday or food) can change an individual's choice making processes with a wider array of options considered than would normally be the case.