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		<title>Freely available? No thanks!</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/04/05/freely-available-no-thanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scarcity principle boils down to this: we want what we’re afraid we can’t have. Fear of losing out on something can be an extremely powerful motivator. Someone or something that's not available all the time is desirable.

Availability might be threatened by limited quantity, a time deadline, or by competition. Whatever the reason, the item in question becomes more attractive to us if we think we can’t have it. Whether it’s a potential mate, a used car, or an item on sale, once its availability is threatened we WANT it!

Even more interesting is the second way in which scarcity affects our thinking and ultimately our behaviour.]]></description>
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		<title>Stop stopping and start starting&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/03/03/stop-stopping-and-start-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Procrastinators are made not born. You need to first identify some of your causes of procrastination so you can begin to understand how to overcome it.

Procrastinators can change their behaviour—but doing so consumes a lot of psychic energy.

Knowing why procrastination happens can help us overcome it.]]></description>
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		<title>Why put it off until tomorrow?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/03/01/why-put-it-off-until-tomorrow-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Procrastination is not a problem of time management or of planning.  Procrastinators are not different in their ability to estimate time, although they are more optimistic than others.  "Telling someone who procrastinates to buy a weekly planner is like telling someone with chronic depression to just cheer up," insists Dr. Ferrari, associate professor of psychology at De Paul University in Chicago.

People procrastinate for different reasons.  Below is a brief description of Dr. Ferrari three basic types of procrastinators:]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a procrastinator?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/24/are-you-a-procrastinator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever put something off until tomorrow?  It is a fact that we tend to put off those things which have a negative emotion attached to them.  Perhaps the task at hand is ‘too hard’, will ‘take too long’, is too ‘boring’ or requires ‘too much effort’.  Twenty percent of people identify themselves as chronic procrastinators.  And it’s a lifestyle.

Procrastinators tell themselves lies, such as, "I'll feel more like doing this tomorrow." Or "I work best under pressure." In reality they do not get the urge the next day.  In addition, they protect their sense of self by saying "this isn't important."

Read more about how to recognise a procrastinator after the jump...]]></description>
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		<title>The Black Dot and Procrastination</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/22/the-black-dot-and-procrastination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently at a Customer Service workshop and during a conversation on what we expected as customers,  action within reasonabletime frames was mentioned.  One of the ladies in the group mentioned that she is forever procrastinating.  She explained that she'll read documents or emails any number of times before actually dealing with it or replying.

She reminded me of a suggestion I was once given which helps us measure how mad our procrastination of this type is and motivate us to postpone procrastination and act!]]></description>
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		<title>Can we observe an attitude?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/15/can-we-observe-an-attitude/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/15/can-we-observe-an-attitude/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you provide someone with feedback?  Do they welcome your comments?  Does it depend on who it is you are providing the feedback to?  What exactly do you feedback to them...their behaviour?  their actions? their attitude?

Many would agree that a person's attitude has a real and measurable impact on behaviour.  Many managers think that it is the employee's poor attitude that causes them to produce poor quality work or a good attitude makes a person a better worker.

How would you feel if I told you that it is impossible to observe attitude?]]></description>
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		<title>I am thinking, therefore I exist.</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/14/i-think-therefore-i-am/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/14/i-think-therefore-i-am/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=243</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When trying to think of everything that was false Descarte it struck him that the fact that he was thinking proved that he was 'something'.  A truth.  Those who know a little about philosophy will understand that importance of the 'truth' debate.  This thought produced the most famous andinfluential philosophical quotes in the history of Western Philosophy.  The well known Latin form "Cognito ergo sum" or the traditional English translation "I think, therefore I am".

Now, why am I talking about this?  What on earth has this to do with anything that matters in our practical real life?]]></description>
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		<title>Your personality, your culture&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/24/your-personality-your-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/24/your-personality-your-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What type of person are you?  What type of humour do you have? What are the stories you tell others about yourself? Do you have a certain way of doing things?  These are the things that make up your personality, various elements which combined are greater than the sum of the parts.]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m sorry.</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/21/im-sorry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you always right? When did you last make a mistake?  Did you apologise?

We are all human and as a result we are all prone to mistakes.  Being a Partner in a large corporate firm or a business owner orsomeone's manager does not automatically remove the capability of being in the wrong or handling situations incorrectly. But do we ever admit it?  Are we conscious of not seeming to have made a bad choice?

Do those we work with appreciate more the person who owns up when they are wrong or the person who refuses to admit that there may have been a better and more effective way of doing something?  Naturally, we are hesitate to admit we have made a mistake, we do not want other to form an impression of our incompetence.]]></description>
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		<title>Crossed arms = closed mind?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/19/crossed-arms-closed-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/19/crossed-arms-closed-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking to a group of folk at a recent networking event, the subject of Body Language popped up.  The subject of non-verbal communciation quite often arises in situations where I'm explaining what I do for gainful employment...and helping others see the importance of understanding human behaviour.  How it arises? Normally, when I say I'm an Occupational Psychologist, someone will make a comment such as 'so do you know what I'm thinking then?'. 

Such comments are normally quite light-hearted (perhaps folk think I won't have heard that particular 'joke' before!) and I have a range of 'stock' answers for certain situations....]]></description>
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