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If employees have been working from home effectively, forcing them to return to the office can create a doom loop of lack of trust and lower performance. Focusing instead on their outcomes and giving them workplace flexibility can inspire a boom loop in engagement. Source for loops: Future ForumAnxiety statistic: Ce...

Eric Ghost's cleverly disguised LSD packaging mirrored the 1960s counterculture's psychedelic vision.The image that follows is not of actual Kodak film but rather of a clever and gently satiric stealth packaging for underground LSD made by the New Yorker Eric Ghost — aka Eric Brown — in 1968. Ghost first took LSD in...

A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.One of the primary motivators of human behavior is avoiding regret. Before the legendary behavioral economists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky formalized prospect theory and loss aversion, they believed that regret avoidance was at the root of the...