Research

Cooperation makes no sense from an evolutionary perspective, explains David Melamed, an assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University (OSU) and lead author of a new study that explores what leads people to collaborate more willingly. “You always do better by not cooperating because then people can’t rip you off or take advantage …read more.

How much change is in your child’s piggy bank? The answer may say more about their future relationship to money than previously realized. New research from the University of Michigan Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD) suggests that children as young as five may have already formed distinct emotional reactions to spending and saving …read more.

Ethics sits at the heart of coaching practice. However, our research suggests that many coaches struggle to know what to do, particularly if they are required to breach the confidentiality of a coaching relationship. In a survey of 3,000 European coaches, we asked coaches about their ethical practice. This research revealed that 72 percent of …read more.

Perfectionism among young people has been on the rise since at least the 1980s, according to research published in the Psychological Bulletin, an American Psychological Association journal. This drive to be perfect could be negatively impacting their mental health. Thomas Curran, Ph.D., of the University of Bath, and Andrew Hill, Ph.D., of York St. John …read more.

Surveys are one of the most commonly used methods to determine a client’s needs and expectations prior to coaching, and they can also be used to monitor and assess progress and results throughout the coaching engagement. By using different question design, information about behavior and attitudes, learning, performance and reactions can be obtained and analyzed. …read more.

Have you ever wondered why some highly intelligent people are not particularly successful, whereas others of lesser intelligence are wildly successful? While having a high IQ is a measure of intellectual functioning and can explain how well we accomplish technical tasks, there is another form of intelligence that affects our ability to appropriately manage our …read more.

Could we learn how to compromise better from machines? Two Brigham Young University (BYU) computer science professors, Jacob Crandall and Michael Goodrich, seem to think so, thanks to a new algorithm they developed with colleagues at MIT and other international universities. The algorithm was developed to teach machines not just to compete and win games, …read more.

Writing daily about gratitude might just change your brain for the better. Using MRI scans, researchers in a University of Oregon study found a notable change in the brains of 16 women who wrote about gratitude in an online journal every day for three weeks. In particular, the scans found changes with the ventromedial prefrontal …read more.

In the past few years, numerous writers have declared work-life balance unachievable. Instead, they call for work-life integration, where individuals weave their personal and professional lives together in a way that makes sense for them (e.g., leaving the office early to attend a child’s theater performance and catching up on email during intermission, or taking …read more.

What will be the most likely trends in the executive coaching industry in 2020–2022?  Will accreditation be mandatory?  Will coaching fees decrease?  Will robots replace coaches? The industry-wide research study Executive Coaching for Results surveyed nearly 1,000 organization coaching practice managers, internal coaches and external coaches on a variety of topics.  Participants were asked, “How …read more.