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8 articles
- Psychological Capital Is State-Like, Which Makes It a Manager's Job
PsyCap — efficacy, optimism, hope and resiliency — sits between a mood and a fixed trait. That placement decides whether you hire for them or build them.
- Inhibited and Uninhibited: Kagan's Temperament Study & the Child I Was
Kagan followed 462 infants for seven years. The finding isn't that temperament predicts who you become — it's that it closes off one corner of the range.
- Upward, Downward, Sideways: The Axis That Decides Whether a Comparison Helps
Upward or downward turns out to be the wrong question. Whether you see the person as reachable decides the outcome — and that is a judgment you make.
- From Needs Assessment to Recommendation: The Belonging Fund Project
My team designed a fund to help students feel they belonged. Our biggest limitation was that we never spoke to a single student.
- The Personality Score I Didn't Pay For: A Big Five Snapshot & the Textbook Page That Found Me
A Big Five test and a textbook page gave me an accurate, uncomfortable read. Here is what I did with the pattern instead of hiding it.
- Brave Spaces vs. Safe Spaces: What Group Coaching Taught Me About Holding a Room
Two group-coaching reflections became an audit of overthinking, silence, and the word that caught me off guard.
- What My Career Anchors Said About the Work I Actually Want
My top two career anchors tied for first place. In Schein's model, they aren't supposed to be roommates.
- Exploring Psychopathology: Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
A film assignment taught me that addiction is rarely a single event — it's the cumulative result of pressure, pain, and lost connection.