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32. Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting (New York: ReaganBooks/HarperCollins, 1997), 311.

33. John August, “Endings for Beginners,” Scriptnotes podcast 44, July 3, 2012, available at http://scriptnotes.net/endings-for-beginners.

34. Hal Hershfield et al., “Poignancy: Mixed Emotional Experience in the Face of Meaningful Endings,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 94, no. 1 (2008): 158–67.


CHAPTER 5. TIME HACKER’S HANDBOOK

1. Jon Bischke, “Entelo Study Shows When Employees Are Likely to Leave Their Jobs,” October 6, 2014, available at https://blog.entelo.com/new-entelo-study-shows-when-employees-are-likely-to-leave-their-jobs.

2. Robert I. Sutton, Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best . . . and Learn from the Worst (New York: Business Plus/Hachette, 2010). That awful boss might also be miserable herself. See Trevor Foulk et al., “Heavy Is the Head That Wears the Crown: An Actor-Centric Approach to Daily Psychological Power, Abusive Leader Behavior, and Perceived Incivility,” Academy of Management Journal 60, forthcoming.

3. Patrick Gillespie, “The Best Time to Leave Your Job Is . . . ,” CNN Money, May 12, 2016, available at http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/12/news/economy/best-time-to-leave-your-job/.

4. Peter Boxall, “Mutuality in the Management of Human Resources: Assessing the Quality of Alignment in Employment Relationships,” Human Resource Management Journal 23, no. 1 (2013): 3–17; Mark Allen Morris, “A Meta-Analytic Investigation of Vocational Interest-Based Job Fit, and Its Relationship to Job Satisfaction, Performance, and Turnover,” PhD diss., University of Houston, 2003; Christopher D. Nye et al., “Vocational Interests and Performance: A Quantitative Summary of over 60 Years of Research,” Perspectives on Psychological Science 7, no. 4 (2012): 384–403.

5. Deborah Bach, “Is Divorce Seasonal? UW Research Shows Biannual Spike in Divorce Filings,” UW Today, August 21, 2016, available at http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/21/is-divorce-seasonal-uw-research-shows-biannual-spike-in-divorce-filings/.

6. Claire Sudath, “This Lawyer Is Hollywood’s Complete Divorce Solution,” Bloomberg Businessweek, March 2, 2016.

7. Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work (Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2011).

8. Jesse Singal, “How to Maximize Your Vacation Happiness,” New York, July 5, 2015.


CHAPTER 6. SYNCHING FAST AND SLOW

1. Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (New York: Vintage, 2009), 264.

2. Ian R. Bartky, Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000).

3. Deborah G. Ancona and Chee-Leong Chong, “Timing Is Everything: Entrainment and Performance in Organization Theory,” Academy of Management Proceedings 1992, no. 1 (1992): 166–69. This line of thinking was presaged by Joseph McGrath, a University of Michigan social psychologist, in Joseph E. McGrath, “Continuity and Change: Time, Method, and the Study of Social Issues,” Journal of Social Issues 42, no. 4 (1986): 5–19; Joseph E. McGrath and Janice R. Kelly, Time and Human Interaction: Toward a Social Psychology of Time (New York: Guilford Press, 1986); and Joseph E. McGrath and Nancy L. Rotchford, “Time and Behavior in Organizations,” in L. L. Cummings and Barry M. Staw, eds., Research in Organizational Behavior 5 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1983), 57–101.

4. Ken-Ichi Honma, Christina von Goetz, and Jürgen Aschoff, “Effects of Restricted Daily Feeding on Freerunning Circadian Rhythms in Rats,” Physiology & Behavior 30, no. 6 (1983): 905–13.

5. Ancona defines organizational entrainment as “the adjustment or moderation of one behavior either to synchronize or to be in rhythm with another behavior” and maintains that it can “be conscious, subconscious, or instinctive.”

6. Till Roenneberg, Internal Time: Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012), 249.

7. Ya-Ru Chen, Sally Blount, and Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, “The Role of Status Differentials in Group Synchronization” in Sally Blount, Elizabeth A. Mannix, and Margaret Ann Neale, eds., Time in Groups, vol. 6 (Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing, 2004), 111–13.

8. Roy F. Baumeister and Mark R. Leary, “The Need to Belong: Desire for Interpersonal Attachments as a Fundamental Human Motivation,” Psychological Bulletin 117, no. 3 (1995): 497–529.

9. See C. Nathan DeWall et al., “Belongingness as a Core Personality Trait: How Social Exclusion Influences Social Functioning and Personality Expression,” Journal of Personality 79, no. 6 (2011): 1281–1314.

10. Dan M?nster et al., “Physiological Evidence of Interpersonal Dynamics in a Cooperative Production Task,” Physiology & Behavior 156 (2016): 24–34.

11. Michael Bond and Joshua Howgego, “I Work Therefore I Am,” New Scientist 230, no. 3079 (2016): 29–32.

12. Oday Kamal, “What Working in a Kitchen Taught Me About Teams and Networks,” The Ready, April 1, 2016, available at https://medium.com/the-ready/schools-don-t-teach-you-organization-professional-kitchens-do-7c6cf5145c0a#.jane98bnh.

13. Michael W. Kraus, Cassy Huang, and Dacher Keltner, “Tactile Communication, Cooperation, and Performance: An Ethological Study of the NBA,” Emotion 10, no. 5 (2010): 745–49.