Inaugurated in 2017, the annual Kessler-Freedheim lecture honors Dr. Jane Kessler, Professor Emerita of Psychology and former director of the Mental Development Center, and Dr. Donald Freedheim, ...

My colleague Ben Dean and I recently conducted an Internet survey of 1464 adults interested in positive psychology that asked what they would most like to know about this new field. A large number ...

Theatrical behavior has been recorded in Greek public life since the Archaic period; fictions exist in a variety of situations in every community with an advanced form of social and political ...

The practical application of a theory or idea is the most effective way of demonstrating its usefulness. Case studies allow for the dissection of practical applications to uncover the thinking that ...

When prospects are in the awareness or consideration phase in their buyer’s journey, there’s usually a point where sales and marketing teams sense their buyer is on the precipice of purchasing. You ...

The Case of São Paulo, Brazil: Optimizing Wastewater treatment plants in the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo This case study focuses on the experience of São Paulo, Brazil and SABESP (Companhia de ...

Students who engage in active learning learn more -- but feel like they learn less -- than peers in more lecture-oriented classrooms. That's in part because active learning is harder than more passive ...

A recent UCLA study suggests that students who speed-watch video lectures can actually understand what they learn from them. These can be similar to listening to the same pre-recorded clip at a ...

In 2017, a business lecturer posted a photo on LinkedIn showing a completely empty university classroom, 15 minutes after the class had been scheduled to start. This is not an isolated incident.