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	<title>The Behaviour Effect &#187; assumptions</title>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
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		<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>Easy to read?  Must be easy to do&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/08/easy-to-read-must-be-easy-to-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2010/02/08/easy-to-read-must-be-easy-to-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviour]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fluency]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much of an effect does the print font we use have on the reader?  Does the ease or difficulty of reading text have an impact on our view of the information?  How do we process information?

Recent experimental research shows that the print font we use can have a profound effect on our understanding of information.  This happens because the print fonts influence how fluently we process the information, even though the font has no actually relationship with the information it is displaying.  How much consideration do you give to the font that you use?]]></description>
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		<title>Brain exercises</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/12/02/brain-exercises/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/12/02/brain-exercises/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain activity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thinking it through]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The more vigorous and diverse your mental life, the more you will stimulate the growth of new neurons and new connections between them.  Different cognitivechallenges exercise different components of the brain.  Much in the same way as no single exercise machine will make you physically fit, instead you need a balanced and diverse workout.

So here are a few logic and creative puzzles for you today.... to keep your Brain ticking over....]]></description>
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		<title>Behaviour maketh the person?</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/30/behaviour-maketh-the-person/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/30/behaviour-maketh-the-person/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is your opinion of Daniel O-Donnell?  Like his music?  Find him an appealing songster?

Take a minute to come up with a few adjectives to describe him. 

What came to mind?  I speculate that the adjectives were not entirely positive.  Perhaps you used words such as 'boring', 'banal'...perhaps you said he's only liked by the 'blue rinse brigade' and sings 'old stuff'.  Yet, is this completely fair to him as a person?  To be judged on only a few elements of hispersona?  ]]></description>
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		<title>As soon as possible!</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/29/as-soon-as-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/29/as-soon-as-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cause & Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever ask someone something and been answered 'Probably'.  Not 'yes' or 'no' but 'probably'.  What were your expectations?  What assumptions did you make?  How likely is it that you will get what you asked?  During training sessions I have often asked the group to write down what percentage likelyhood is attached to the word 'probably'.  I have gotten anything from probably means something is 20% likely to happen (I fear this person has been disappointed often in life!) to 99%.

What is your understanding of the word 'probably'?  Think it's the same as your colleagues?  Ever checked?]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Behaviour]]></category>
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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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		<title>Mind Bending</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/18/mind-bending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/18/mind-bending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lateral thinking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fancy a challenge?  Need a diversion?  Up for a bit of lateral thinking?

Each of the following take a little creativity to solve...and each need you to think about the puzzle in a slightly different way...from a different perspective... with unclear reasoning...]]></description>
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		<title>All thing being relative&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/16/all-thing-being-relative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/16/all-thing-being-relative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophical]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=144</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Discussing relatively recently with a local poet, a compromise of conversation was highlighted to me.  Having delivered some vibrant and thought provoking poetry he explained that he uses poetry to protray his thoughts and observations about life.  Out conversation swayed into the topic of relativity and how generalisations can never be taken as fact as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the mask</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/09/behind-the-mask/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/09/behind-the-mask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[professionalism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Were you at a Halloween Party?  Was it a costume party? Did you wear a mask? Personally I can&#8217;t stand masks.  I&#8217;ve always had a bit of a fear of someone in a mask.  Very disconcerting I think.   Not being able to see the facial expression.  Or work out what the person is thinking or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mr Bun the Baker&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/04/mr-bun-the-baker/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thebehavioureffect.com/2009/11/04/mr-bun-the-baker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruth Thompson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cause & Effect]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[nominative determinism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever noticed an opticians with the name &#8216;Glass&#8217; above the door? Has it made you smile that Amy Winehouse is a famous alcoholic? Ever wondered if it&#8217;s a coincidence that the name often suits the profession? The New Scientist magazine coined the term &#8220;nominative determinism&#8221; to suggest that the name had an influencial role in [...]]]></description>
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