You visit two different websites in the same industry. One of those websites offers you three options, the other presents 15 different choices. Out of the two, which website do you think will perform the best? Naturally, we’d be inclined to think that people love having the power of choice - and they do. They are attracted to - and can become addicted to the possibilities of choice—because they intuitively feel they’ll find something that best satisfies their needs. Related Article: HR's New Weapon of Choice: People Analytics, Care of Big Data But while this might be how >>>

If you've been anywhere near a computer or TV lately, you've probably heard about Winter Storm Jonas. The storm is expected to dump at least a foot of snow in a large area spanning from western Tennessee to the New York City, and the D.C. area might get up to 20 inches. And some people are…really excited about this. Social media is being flooded with tweets and Facebook posts from people who are psyched about the impending snowstorm, and Jonas Brothers-themed storm memes are already popping up. But major snowstorms can also come with negative side effects, >>>

Restaurant reviews on popular platforms such as Zomato, Yelp and TripAdvisor give one a vast insight into concerned restaurants. However, did you know that reviews can also tell a careful observer something about the reviewer’s personality and the general workings of human psychology? According to Dan Jurafsky, a Stanford researcher and his team, analysing the language, the prominence of certain words and the tone of a review can provide an insight into the type of people writing the review. To prove their hypothesis, they carried out a study that looked at almost 900,000 online >>>

Experiencing mixed emotions shows emotional complexity, not indecision, and people living in different parts of the world vary in their ability to distinguish between multiple feelings they're having at once, according to new research. A project from the University of Waterloo examined how people across 16 cultures vary in their tendency to see situations as either all good or all bad, or in a more complex fashion by seeing a little of both. Previous studies have linked lower emotional complexity with a reduced ability to control one's emotions, and higher incidence of depression. "People in >>>