Heidi Grant Halvorson Ph.D.

What Should You Look for In Your Perfect Match?

Do opposites attract, as Paula Abdul once assured us in a pop song, or do you need to be similar on twenty-nine dimensions of personality – as E-harmony suggests – to find the perfect match?

Do opposites attract, as Paula Abdul once assured us in a pop song, or do you need to be similar on twenty-nine dimensions of personality – as E-harmony suggests – to find the perfect match?

How to Choose the Right Career

Knowing your dominant motivational focus - promotion or prevention - you can now evaluate how well-suited you are motivationally to different kinds of careers, or different positions in your organization.

Knowing your dominant motivational focus - promotion or prevention - you can now evaluate how well-suited you are motivationally to different kinds of careers, or different positions in your organization.

Is Fear Holding You Back? Try This

How can you learn to embrace risk for the sake of your future happiness, particularly when risk-taking doesn’t come to you naturally?

How can you learn to embrace risk for the sake of your future happiness, particularly when risk-taking doesn’t come to you naturally?

How You Can Benefit From All Your Stress

Maybe you don’t need less stress – you just need to think about your stress a little differently.

Maybe you don’t need less stress – you just need to think about your stress a little differently.

Are You Promotion or Prevention-Focused?

Why is it so hard to be good with both the big ideas and with the details? Why is the “spontaneous” one in any couple usually not the one who balances the checkbook?

Why is it so hard to be good with both the big ideas and with the details? Why is the “spontaneous” one in any couple usually not the one who balances the checkbook?

What It Takes to Have Influence

Selling, moving, persuading, influencing… many of us may resist the idea that this is part of our job description (or avoid taking positions for which it would be) because we believe we lack that ability, just as we avoided calculus in college like the plague because we weren’t “math people.”

Selling, moving, persuading, influencing… many of us may resist the idea that this is part of our job description (or avoid taking positions for which it would be) because we believe we lack that ability, just as we avoided calculus in college like the plague because we weren’t “math people.”

Sometimes, Negative Feedback Is Best

New research sheds light on the seeminlgy paradoxical nature of feedback, by making it clear why, when, and for whom negative feedback is appropriate.

New research sheds light on the seeminlgy paradoxical nature of feedback, by making it clear why, when, and for whom negative feedback is appropriate.

The 2 Words You Have to Stop Saying (or Thinking) Today

Saying to yourself "I don't," rather than "I can't," can you help rid yourself of bad habits once and for all.

Saying to yourself "I don't," rather than "I can't," can you help rid yourself of bad habits once and for all.

The Secret to Shrinking Your To-Do List

It’s easy to get through an entire week, look at your To Do List, and realize that even though you were worked really hard every day, you still can’t cross a single thing off of it.

It’s easy to get through an entire week, look at your To Do List, and realize that even though you were worked really hard every day, you still can’t cross a single thing off of it.

The difference between those who are successful and those who aren’t is not whether or not you suffer from stress, but how you deal with it when you do.