Your Tendency to Put Things Off May Have Been Inherited

46% of the trait of procrastination is due to genetic influences, according to a study of hundreds of sets of twins. The research also lends support to a theory that procrastination, in its tendency to undermine adherence to long-term goals, is a byproduct of impulsivity, which may have had an evolutionary origin: Hunter-gatherers had an advantage if they acted swiftly to satisfy their survival needs. Your genetics don’t necessarily condemn you to a life of procrastination: The 46% figure means procrastination is only “moderately heritable,” according to the researchers, led by Daniel E. Gustavson of the University of Colorado.

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Your Ability to Size Up a Face Probably Isn’t Based on Experience

If adults assume that their ability to discern trustworthiness, or the lack thereof, in strangers’ faces is a skill honed over a lifetime, they’re wrong. Children ages 5 and 6 made very nearly the same judgments about the trustworthiness of computer-generated faces as adults, and children ages 3 to 4 were off by just a few percentage points, says a team led by Emily J. Cogsdill of Harvard. People make inferences—right or wrong—about strangers’ characters within 50 milliseconds of viewing their faces, prior research has shown.
baby girl face

SOURCE: Inferring Character from Faces: A Developmental Study

Emerging TV viewer types

Emerging TV viewer types

“Professional” Critics

Middle-age professionals,
successful and digital savvy, have
limited time and demand quality.
Characterized by their skepticism,
interest in keeping up with media
& pop culture and drawn to
immersive story driven, and
cerebral shows.

Young Digital Nomads

Born into “get what I want – when
I want it” media landscape, these
college age and 20-something’s
are much more likely to go ’off
the grid’, snacking on TV media
clips, viewing online or through
alternative viewing means (laptop,
Netflix, Hulu, Roku, etc.)

Social Seekers

Digital and broadcast TV worlds
are more seamless for these
viewers, who seek programming
that can connect them with
others, either in person or online
– all to create an immersive,
social and sometimes escapist
experience..

Time Fillers

Heavily engaged with TV
programming and online

entertainment information, these
viewers put television at the
center of their universe, but
appear to remain more on
“autopilot”.

tv viewers

High Performers Are Covertly Victimized, Unless They’re Altruistic

In a study set in a Midwestern field office of a U.S. financial services firm, high-performing employees were more likely than average workers to report that colleagues covertly victimized them through such behaviors as sabotage, withholding resources, and avoidance, says a team led by Jaclyn M. Jensen of DePaul University. High performers’ average score on a 1-to-5 victimization-frequency scale (from “never” to “once a week or more”) was 3.37, with the greater the performance gap in the workgroup, the greater the victimization. The effect was most pronounced for high performers who were selfish and manipulative; those who were altruistic and cooperative suffered less victimization as their performance increased, the researchers say.

SOURCE: Is it Better to Be Average? High and Low Performance as Predictors of Employee Victimization

Are You Future Oriented? Your Language Tells the Tale

The structure of the language spoken by a company’s top team affects the firm’s planning for the future, according to doctoral student Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis of Harvard Business School, and two colleagues. If the language is English, Spanish, or one of many others that use mainly grammar, rather than context, to distinguish present from future (“It is raining,” “It will rain”), people tend to focus less on the future, presumably because it seems more distant. On corporate social responsibility, which is a highly future-oriented activity, firms in countries speaking these “strong-future-time-reference” languages underperform firms in weak-future-time-reference countries by more than 1.2 grades on a 7-step scale, the researchers say.

SOURCE: Speaking of Corporate Social Responsibility