Recent press articles about research relating ‘niceness’ to the Agreeableness personality factor have caught our eye! The research we spotted was conducted for Monarch Airlines by Jonathan Freeman and colleagues at Goldsmiths University of London. It followed earlier research on the benefits of being nice – for both staff and passengers.  One finding of the

Could your vote have been determined by whether you saw yourself as more similar to Boris Johnson or David Cameron? There is a common saying that ‘opposites attract’.  However, most of the psychological research indicates that we tend to be more attracted to those who are similar to ourselves in any of a number of

At a recent Association of Business Psychologists meeting in Manchester, Andrew Thorp spoke about the role of storytelling in influencing people. Andrew is a professional speaker and trainer with strong views about how storytelling can help us to reconnect with each other in order to improve our business relationships. The initial focus of his talk

We were recently approached by the University of Liverpool to design the content for a masters module on Leadership for their online MSc in Organisational and Business Psychology. The University of Liverpool is a member of Laureate, a network of more than 80 campus-based and online universities providing undergraduate and graduate degree programs to over

Our personalities have a bearing on many aspects of our lives and well-being outside of work as well as in it. This occasional series of articles looks at some of the research that has been conducted to look at the association between personality and significant issues in our society. Personality and obesity – is there

Have you ever found yourself tongue-tied in a foreign country, unable to speak fluently in a second language, despite having studied it, sometimes in depth or repeatedly at different times in your life? If your answer is ‘Yes’ then recent research suggests that you are not alone, and that personality factors might be playing a

A new Quintax Team Role report has been developed based on our own SR&A model of team roles. It offers both comprehensive definition of the roles and clear development information and support. This article explores some of the history of the development of team role models and introduces the SR&A Team Role model. Finally, the

Quintax users have a new report option on the new Quintax website: Quintax Analytics! So why has the new report been introduced, and what is it about? The new report is intended to provide help to those users who employ Quintax in high stakes selection or progression situations where key employment decisions are to be