Did voters punish inflation or pay cuts? A county-by-county look at the 2024 election
A new working paper finds that falling real wages, not inflation itself, tracked with Republican gains in 2024. Once wages...
Read moreDetailsWhat a brainwave headset revealed about why some traders make money and others don’t
Researchers put wearable EEG headsets on 16 professional day traders during real, high-stakes trading. Brief spikes in neural engagement before...
Read moreDetailsOne office day a month? A remote-work experiment finds surprisingly large gains
A randomized trial at a Turkish call center finds that bringing fully remote workers together just one day a month...
Read moreDetailsA Chicago economist links decades of interest-rate movements to public memory
A working paper finds that decades-long swings in real interest rates across the U.S., Germany, U.K., and Japan track slow-moving...
Read moreDetailsNew study shows how a single hot week causes a delayed economic slump
Weekly U.S. data show that a hot week produces a brief economic bump, then a slow slide that lasts more...
Read moreDetailsFeeling inauthentic at work may drive after-hours drinking, study finds
New experience-sampling research on service workers finds that faking emotions at work is linked to feelings of inauthenticity, which motivate...
Read moreDetailsThe surprising difference between how couples handle equal income versus equal wealth
A study of nearly 14,300 German couples finds that income equality is linked to separate finances mainly in the West,...
Read moreDetailsHow “mental time travel” turns product images into purchases
New research finds that digital product displays which trigger memories of past experiences lead shoppers to mentally simulate future ones,...
Read moreDetailsNew study: A gorgeous office won’t make you more productive, but you’ll think it will
New research finds that people expect to be more productive in aesthetically appealing offices, but their actual performance on cognitive...
Read moreDetailsNew research links return-to-office mandates to leader narcissism
Three studies suggest narcissistic bosses resist remote work more than others, driven by their desire for power and admiration that...
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