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Less than 1/10th second to trust or not

19 January 2016 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

No!

Do you make snap judgments? Do you jump to conclusions?

When you’re at a party, a bar, deciding where to sit on a bus, serving a customer, interviewing someone, meeting your new boss, meeting staff as their new boss, watching new neighbours move in – how long does it takes you to ‘sum someone up’? What if you see the face of an alleged criminal on the television? And how long does it take when you meet your daughter’s new boyfriend or your boyfriend’s new girl? Two minutes? Ten minutes? Think again.

I am sure you would say you make a considered decision and don’t rush to conclusions. You might say: ‘I always give someone the benefit of the doubt’. But we all know it doesn’t work like that – and the science appears to back up what really happens.

What the science says

According to some research published in the Journal of Psychological Science by Professor Alex Todorov of Princeton University, it takes us less than 1/10th of a second to decide if we trust someone or not. We respond intuitively to faces so rapidly that our reasoning minds may not have time to influence our reaction. And our intuitions about attraction and trust are among those we form the fastest.

“The link between facial features and character may be tenuous at best, but that doesn’t stop our minds from sizing other people up at a glance,” says Todorov, “We decide very quickly whether a person possesses many of the traits we feel are important, such as likeability and competence, even though we have not exchanged a single word with them. It appears that we are hard-wired to draw these inferences in a fast, unreflective way.”

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Why does this happen? Can we change our reaction? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Amygdala and The Almond Effect, Articles, Emotional Intelligence in Change Tagged With: amygdala, control, decisions, emotions, empathy, leadership, science, The Almond Effect

Can you focus? See the bigger picture? Check out this fabulous illusion!

30 November 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Articles, Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: brain, mindfulness, science

Want to ged rid of bad memories?

17 August 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

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We all have memories we wish we could forget.

Unfortunately getting rid of them is far more complex than the ease with which we lay them down in our brains.

But the neuroscientists are making progress all the time.

Here’s a progress piece in Mind and Brain, Scientific American August edition. It’s worth the read.

How the brain purges bad memories

Filed Under: Amygdala and The Almond Effect, Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: amygdala, brain, emotions, fear, science, The Almond Effect

Free Brain Facts book

7 May 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

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Want to know more about your brain?

The Society for Neuroscience offers this free BrainFacts book.

Designed for teachers and school students who participate in the Brain Bee, it’s a useful resource.

Also available as an audio recording (or through iTunes U)

 

 

Filed Under: Articles, Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: brain, science

‘I just need to concentrate’

20 January 2015 by Anne Riches Leave a Comment

Change leaders have so much going on that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the multiple demands of their team, their colleagues, their bosses, the project managers, their regular workload – let alone home life demands.

More and more, mindfulness is practised as a way of dealing with the ‘noise’ and to enable focus to make headway through the workload.

This article from the HBR blog explains what happens in our brains when we practice Mindfulness.

It’s a short, simple explanation that makes sense.

Mindfulness Can Literally Change Your Brain

Filed Under: Articles, Change Leadership, Neuroscience of Change Tagged With: ACC, brain, change, leadership, mindfulness, science

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