![]() ![]() ![]() So if you want someone to do something - you know what to do.ģ. Lo and behold, the Post-its made faculty members far more likely to complete the task. Some also received a cover letter or a personalized Post-it note asking them to complete it. Randy Garner at Sam Houston State University gave faculty members a survey to complete. We're always trying to get people to pay attention, but there's some research showing that we have a powerful (and affordable) weapon at our disposal: the Post-it note. In keeping with this episode's theme of giving and receiving feedback, here are four pieces of science-informed insight that could help you communicate better in your everyday life. They have 60 seconds to convey each idea. On Stopwatch Science, Dan and Shankar agree on a topic, and each brings two pieces of research to share. Stopwatch Scienceĭaniel Pink is a friend of the program and fellow social science nerd. "You are switchtracking to about four other topics of your feedback for him or her, but it's a silent switchtrack, so your boss isn't necessarily aware that you're not paying any attention at all," Sheila says. Sheila Heen, on "switchtracking" in conversations And they don't even realize that they're going in different directions. and everybody, by the way, hates you,' " she says. but what you're thinking, of course, is: 'OK, first of all, this is not my fault, and second of all, you're even worse at this than I am, and third of all, I can't believe that you're doing this in front of everyone and you're this unprofessional. "Your boss is chewing you out, and you're not saying anything out loud. Heen says it's particularly common in a hierarchy, from the person lower in the chain. Sometimes, switchtracking is even more subtle than this - because it's happening inside one person's head. Often, neither person even realizes that they are talking about two different subjects. "Kim's topic is, 'You don't listen to me,' and Louie's topic is, 'You don't appreciate me.' " "There are really two topics on the table," Heen says. "I just think that you should have thanked me for the flowers first, and then said the thing about the roses," Louie respond s. You'll also hear from Philip Tetlock."I've told you before that I don't like red roses," Kim says. This episode includes references to research by Mahzarin Banaji, Eric Hehman, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Joshua Correll, and Maya Sen. Later in the show, we look at how biases affect judges in the U.S. We'll begin with a focus on police shootings of unarmed black men. This week on Hidden Brain, we examine research about prejudices so deeply buried, we often doubt their existence. "Perhaps we behave in ways that are not known to our own conscious awareness, that we are being driven to act in certain ways not because we are explicitly prejudiced, but because we may carry in our heads the thumbprint of the culture," she says. She says it's important to acknowledge that the individual mind sits in society. Harvard University psychologist Mahzarin Banaji says while most people don't feel they're racist, they likely carry unfavorable opinions about people of color - even if they are people of color themselves.īanaji is one of the creators of the Implicit Association Test, a widely-used tool for measuring a person's implicit biases. It's a question that makes most of us uncomfortable and defensive. 20180308_hiddenbrain_the_mind_of_the_village_radio_hour.mp3 ![]()
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