When your job feels scriptable: How routine work and AI anxiety drain employee energy
New research on 550 frontline workers finds that highly scripted jobs drain vigor and learning, and AI-related job anxiety disrupts ...
Childhood obesity and the American Dream: New research links early weight to lower lifetime mobility
A new study links childhood obesity to sharply lower adult income mobility, using genetic data to separate the effects of ...
The brain chemical behind your money moves: How dopamine shapes financial choices
A new review pulls together decades of research on how dopamine shapes financial decisions, from risk-taking to fairness to learning ...
Can AI read the room? How news sentiment signals which stocks will bounce back after a crash
A new study of 2.7 million news articles finds that AI-generated sentiment scores can help distinguish temporary stock crashes from ...
New study finds private financial firms disproportionately promote upper-class white men
New research on 806 Wall Street executives finds that hedge funds and private equity firms, often built as informal partnerships, ...
Why people at the bottom of the ladder speed up their speech to match the boss
A new study finds that employees in low-power positions speed up their speech to match fast-talking partners, while those higher ...
What makes a public service job attractive? A new study sorts out which perks matter most
Researchers ran an experiment asking over 1,300 citizens to choose between hypothetical job offers. The results reveal what really attracts ...
What a CEO’s tweets reveal about their paycheck
Researchers analyzed 208,050 tweets from S&P 1500 CEOs and found that two personality traits predicted higher pay, with better investment ...
When optimism mutes the message: How investor mood shapes crypto’s response to economic news
A study of 100 cryptocurrencies and 32 U.S. economic releases finds that bullish investor sentiment significantly weakens how sharply crypto ...
Why nominal interest rates bite harder than textbooks suggest
New research argues that fixed nominal mortgage payments and payment-to-income limits mean nominal interest rates directly affect what households can ...