Improving Human Performance

Getting in Touch with Your Inner Brainwaves through Biofeedback: Biofeedback cures illness, boosts performance, helps people relax and even is used to help children with Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder.

Multitasking – Switching Costs: Doing more than one task at a time, especially more than one complex task, takes a toll on productivity.

Occupational Stress and Employee Control: Employee control over work can reduce stress and enhance motivation and growth. Several key findings have prompted employers to search for ways to give workers a greater sense of control, to improve health, productivity and morale.

Pushing Buttons: Whatever happened to the rotary phone? Psychological testing helped design the ubiquitous push-button keypad for the telephone, sending the rotary dial the way of the dinosaur.

You're Getting Very Sleepy: More sleep would make most Americans happier, healthier and safer.