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Emily Lowe-Calverley

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Associate Lecturer, Psychology, University of Tasmania

Employees are not working at work and working at home. Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

August 9, 2017

Some workers ‘cyberloaf’ if they think they can get away with it, so employers need to get creative

Emily Lowe-Calverley, University of Tasmania and Rachel Grieve, University of Tasmania

Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend’s holiday snaps on Facebook: that’s workplace cyberloafing.

Games like Pokémon GO cleverly exploit our psychology in the way they dole our rewards to keep players hooked. Shutterstock

July 25, 2016

The power of rewards and why we seek them out

Rachel Grieve, University of Tasmania and Emily Lowe-Calverley, University of Tasmania

The Pokemon GO craze has tapped in to our desire to seek out rewards. But there different types of rewards in life, each designed to capture our attention, even train our behaviour.

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