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Professionals who feel that they are not using all of their talents at work may want to take a personality test. This can help them identify certain abilities they have which are not being used at the office. For example, many professionals are creative, but do not always have the chance to use this talent […]

The book Career Counseling states that students and other individuals may benefit from taking a career test in order to give their professional lives more focus and direction. These assessments can show people what their strengths and weaknesses are as well as how various work environments would suit them. According to a new study by […]

  Alabama’s Nick Burt, a recent high school graduate, had the opportunity to travel to Singapore in order to compete in the Brain Triathlon, Baldwin County Now reports. Burt was one of 28 students from across the globe who participated in the competition. In order to qualify for the event, Burt took a pretest that […]

When many students go to college for the first time, one of their top concerns is what their roommates will be like. Finding the right person to share a dorm with is important, as these individuals can affect students’ college experience as well as their grades, as shown in a 2011 study by Dartmouth College […]

A recent study by researchers at various universities shows that young children who play a game called the Head-Toes-Knees-Shoulders task tend to perform better in both literacy and mathematics. The researchers said this activity is similar to Simon Says and demands that students use their self-regulation skills, which includes the ability to pay attention, follow […]

  In the era of technology, there are many ways for people to look for jobs. For example, ClickZ, a marketing news website, recommends that individuals use the social networking site LinkedIn to land their next position. Once users create a LinkedIn account, they can click the tab titled "jobs" on the top of the […]

  According to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal, many arguments among couples arise because one individual is an extrovert while the other is an introvert. While most people think that introverts are shy and extroverts are outgoing, the difference between the two is actually in the way that they process information. Psychologists […]

  Researchers from McMaster University found that when individuals use perceptual learning they are able to recall very specific information from what they learned one to two years earlier. The team of researchers defined perceptual learning as using visual and abstract patterns. In order to arrive at this conclusion, researchers asked participants to identify one […]

Parents who wanted to enroll their children in California’s Dry Creek School District were surprised to find that one of the questions on their application asked how their children were delivered, the Daily Mail reports. Mothers who answered "caesarean section" were then required to explain why this procedure was performed. Although some individuals speculated that […]

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences indicates that the left and right hemispheres of the brain store information separately, Science News reports. Researchers hope this information can lead to the creation of techniques for boosting memory capacity, which is significant because working memory ability can affect IQ test […]