Meet the team at Mike the Psych

Thought you might like to meet the editorial team for the coming year!  Here I am at work in my garden. I look a bit wooden I know but it was taken in the morning and I’m not at my best before 10 o’clock This is my colleague who prefers to remain anonymous. I thought [...]

More (real) school friends = more earning power (maybe)

Did you know that the more friends a child has at school, the more they will probably earn later in life? A study by Essex University published last year shows that for each extra friend a pupil had at school, their salary 35 years later was 2% higher. The research adds to growing evidence that [...]

Pigeons possibly smarter than penalty-takers in football?

The best way to take a football penalty is to shoot straight down the middle as goal-keepers tend to move to their right or to their left. At least that’s the conclusion of a group of economists who studied penalty-taking in the French and Italian leagues using a branch of mathematics called (perhaps appropriately) game [...]

Green-eyed monster at work

Jealousy and envy are closely related but jealousy is usually when you wish you had something someone else has got eg a pay rise, or a plum project, and envy is when you haven’t got it and when you wish they hadn’t either. Envy is also about feeling inferior, being resentful, and wishing ill-will to others. [...]