by Kare Anderson | Aug 6, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Conflict, Connecting, decisionmaking
Ashamed as I am to admit after all these years, my instinctive reaction is to defend or retreat still kicks into gear when I feel wronged or simply slightly mistreated. When others appear to be behaving badly, we tend to sink into our own feelings, blinding ourselves...
by Kare Anderson | Aug 2, 2012 | Connecting, decisionmaking, Listening, Media
When we feel manipulated we usually resent it. More often we are not aware of hidden cues that affect our emotions and actions. A pattern, movement, seemingly inconsequential gesture or other “signal” unconsciously influences how we feel about someone or...
by Kare Anderson | May 28, 2012 | behavior, Book, Collective Intelligence, Connecting
How We Tell Others Who We Are On this Memorial Day weekend, what are we signaling when we flood Facebook with slogans and images of salutes to our troops and the “Likes” that follow? Certainly we intend to honor soldiers who serve our country, yet there’s more to this...
by Kare Anderson | May 26, 2012 | behavior, Book, Choice, Connecting, love
They don’t listen. Some women are nodding as they read this and some men feel prickles of irritation. And what do men most resent about women other than not enough, well, you know? Women try to change (“improve”) their man. You’ve probably experienced, first hand, a...
by Kare Anderson | Feb 3, 2012 | Connecting, Likeability, Visual
“Your face is my map to your life.” ~ Harry Houdini, magician We are all literally and unwittingly two-faced. To learn more about how you present yourself to the world and about your underlying, more “private” feelings, you just have to look...
by Kare Anderson | Jan 22, 2012 | Caring, Connecting, Give Back
”I had a doorbell moment this week,” Patricia told Tracy. Both have sons serving in the same Marine unit in Iraq. Patricia is describing the fear that grabs her the moment her doorbell rings unexpectedly, thinking that the officer on the other side has...
