Neuroeconomics
When illness leads to illegality: How a cancer diagnosis reshapes the decision to commit a crime
A study of Danish administrative records finds that cancer diagnoses are linked to a 14% rise in criminal convictions, driven by lost income, shorter survival horizons, and psychological distress.
The seductive allure of neuroscience: Why brain talk feels so satisfying, even when it explains nothing
A meta-analysis of 60 experiments finds that adding irrelevant neuroscience to explanations reliably boosts how satisfying they feel, but rarely changes what people actually believe.
New research links local employment shocks to cognitive decline in older men
New research using local labor-demand shocks finds that employment losses are linked to measurable cognitive decline among men aged 51 to 64, extending earlier findings about retirement-age workers to the years well before traditional retirement.