Social Science

New Vanderbilt University research finds that unsolicited job leads can increase symptoms of depression in some people.

Modern office workers are expected to multitask regularly, often juggling multiple projects and priorities over the course of a day. Studies have shown that the typical employee in an office environment is interrupted up to six times per hour, but how does that impact the finished product? New research published in Human Factors evaluates how ongoing interruptions can negatively affect the quality of work.

Deliberate practice may not have nearly as much influence in building expertise as we thought, according toresearch published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

















