VCE Psychology Exchange

"Employee engagement is far different from employee satisfaction and measures much more of real value to an organization, such as how well the employee understands the goals of the organization and how committed he or she is to giving discretionary effort to achieve those goals."

"By combining the linguistic analysis systems of TweetPsych with Twitter's geo tagging data (which isn't great yet) and the Google Maps API, I was able to plot tweets on specific latitude and longitude codes based on their emotional content."

"Teachers who tap into their pupils' emotions to create a caring, welcoming classroom are likely to get the best results, new research suggests."

Thank you so much for all the help on the color survey.  Over five million colors were named across 222,500 user sessions.  If you never got around to taking it, it's too late to contribute any data, but if you want you can see how it worked and take it for fun here.

"Dianne Backwell was a psychology student at La Trobe University in 1973. She took part in controversial obedience tests modelled on the infamous Milgram experiments conducted at Yale University in the early sixties. On the orders of a tutor, Dianne had to give what she thought were electric shocks to her fellow student. Even after finding out that there were no shocks, she still suffers to this day about taking part in the experiment."

The Waterfall Illusion

"It shouldn't be news by now that stress, especially chronic, prolonged stress, can have negative effects on your health and well-being. .. new research shows that chronic, constant stress from things like a busy job and tense home can lead to more than just the occassional headache."