Why are some work teams happier and more productive than others? Because their members agree to interact in ways that promote well-being in themselves and others, says James Ritchie-Dunham, clinical associate professor of strategy at Texas McCombs.

Ritchie-Dunham is co-lead of the Leadership for Flourishing project, an ongoing study of well-being in the workplace across 59 countries, and a lead author for the Global Flourishing Study, an interdisciplinary, five-year initiative to survey over 200,000 people across 22 countries and 1 territory on six continents. The study is now gathering a third wave of data. Nature Portfolio published dozens of papers on the first wave in April.

Based on the first two data sets, Ritchie-Dunham discusses what flourishing looks like on the job and what managers can do to foster it.

Researchers have proposed a new theoretical model to analyze gaslighting, a form of psychological manipulation that involves making a victim question their sense of reality over a period of time. Using the field of social cognition as a starting point, the team from McGill University and the University of Toronto aimed to update the current theoretical knowledge surrounding gaslighting.