Does Your Micraphone Work?

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i'm a social psychology professor. i put people in really uncomfortable social situations and then i see what they dolikewhat tats, what i do? Wwell, give me what's an uncomfortable social situation that ams of mine. So imagine that we want to know how anxious people are when they interact with each other. How are we going to get them to really show case that anxiety? We can do all kinds of weird things. To them. Ok, does your micraphone work? Well, i believe so.

In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should.

West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.

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