Immaculata Abigail Kauffman, a family and consumer sciences major with a concentration in secondary education and a minor in product development at Immaculata University, made the dean’s list for the fall semester with a 3.84 GPA. A 2013 graduate of Minersville Area High School, she is a daughter of David and Lisa Kauffman, Minersville. Kianna Fiscus, a doctoral student in Immaculata University’s Psy.D Clinical Psychology program, received a 4.0 GPA for the fall semester. She is a 2015 graduate of Millersville University, a 2011 >>>

PORT ANGELES — A retired educator and psychology professor has been appointed the new Port Angeles School Board member.Sandra Long was selected Thursday night by a unanimous vote to fill the seat vacated by Rick Marti, who resigned before he ever served in the position to which he was elected Nov. 3.Long will be sworn in at Thursday’s board meeting at 7 p.m. in the Central Services Building, 216 E. Fourth St.She will serve until December 2017.Much of Long’s professional career has been in public education.Most recently, she was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral >>>

London, Jan 10 : Modern office features such as hot-desking or desk-sharing and open-plan floors appeal mainly to extrovert workers but others find them uncomfortable, a new research has found. The findings highlighted that extroverts are significantly happier at work and have higher levels of job satisfaction and also pointed out that personality differences are behind areas of conflict in the office. "Understanding how personality interacts with the office environment is key to improving job satisfaction and productivity," said researcher John Hackston, head of research at OPP, >>>

By Justin Wm. Moyer The Washington Post - Jan 10, 2016 Whether it’s Silicon Valley giants such as Facebook or relatively unknown firms such as Camden Property Trust, Fortune’s No. 1 “Best Workplace for Diversity” last year, businesses around the world are scrambling to show they know it’s not okay to let white men run everything. That effort can take many forms —from diversity trainings so devastatingly lampooned years ago in The Office to actually hiring and retaining minorities and women. A controversial piece published >>>

Everyone knows the purpose of a commercial on TV is to sell you a product. We also know as we watch them, or fast forward through them, that there is marketing taking place on the psychological level. Some of it is blatant and some of it is subliminal. What we don’t often consider, is that these tactics are also surrounding us each time we enter a grocery store.Ride in the Shopping Cart photo: Caden Crawford The psychology of the grocery store impacts the innocent shopper in a multiple ways. It influences what we buy, how much we buy, and how often we stray from our list of good intentions. >>>

Why do we flock to buy Powerball tickets when the chances of winning are infinitesimal? A CSU Channel Islands psychology professor said it's because it makes us feel happier as we live in a fantasy of what life could be like if we win. Saturday's nearly $950 million Powerball jackpot — the largest prize in U.S. lottery history — drew people to stores in droves to buy a chance at the prize. Case in point: A few hours before Saturday's Powerball drawing, >>>

(CNN) - Would you prefer a more expensive apartment with a shorter commute or a less expensive apartment with a long commute? That's one of the many real world questions researchers at the University of British Columbia asked more than 4,600 participants in the latest study on happiness. The questions aim to get to the heart of what people value more: time or money. New research that was collected over a year and a half and published by the Society of Personality and Social Psychology suggests valuing your time rather than pursuing >>>

David Powlison begins his explanation of what constitutes biblical psychology by saying simply that "Christian faith is psychology." Like any worldview, Christianity offers a very distinct "coherent, comprehensive understanding of how people work" and he says that this is "intrinsic to thinking Christianly." Indeed, there is a sense in which we are all psychologists because we all have a worldview and this worldview informs how we view humans and how we interpret how they think. He notes that Jesus, for example, provides a very distinct interpretation of the "thoughts and intentions of the heart." >>>

To save articles or get newsletters, alerts or recommendations – all free. Don't have an account yet?Create an account » Subscribed through iTunes and need an NYTimes.com account?Learn more » Need to connect your Home Delivery subscription to NYTimes.com?Link your subscription » >>>

When you’re playing games that offer a choice between good and evil, do you encourage the flames of chaos, or make sure everyone is kept happy and safe? For me it’s always been about playing the hero, and statistics reveal I’m in the majority. Take a look at the player choices at the end of each Telltale episode and you’ll find that overall a higher percentage of players do ‘the right thing’.  But why? What is it that compels such a large proportion of us to be good guys in games? When you think about it, taking the more chaotic option would >>>