There has never been a more critical time to consider the importance of perception in business. In his classic 2005 book, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman showcased how we must improve our global ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. I explored some basic communication principles in my column ...

This week, I turn to the work of William B. Swann of the University of Texas, Austin, who offered a different perspective on professional judgment of personality in an influential article in 1984. His ...

To determine how familiarity with a talker's voice affects perception of spoken words, we trained two groups of subjects to recognize a set of voices over a 9-day period. One group then identified ...

Neuroscientists at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) together with colleagues at the Freiburg University show that this is not strictly the case. Instead, they show that prediction errors can ...

If hiring were a T.V. talent competition, it would be more The Voice than American Idol. On the latter, contestants have to impress a panel of judges. Fail, and the judges can laugh you off the stage.