The “perfect” AI face may be turning shoppers off
As AI-generated hosts flood shopping livestreams, new research suggests the facial traits humans find beautiful in each other can backfire ...
A 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 ...
The wrong people are raising their hands for management jobs, a new study suggests
A large study finds that people eager to become managers often perform worse than those chosen at random, and that ...
The traders betting against Bitcoin, and what their moves reveal
New research on spot Bitcoin ETFs finds that short sellers pile in when crypto optimism peaks and can briefly predict ...
New 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 ...
Marriage affects women’s business ownership differently across cultures
A study of more than 142,000 people finds that marriage widens the gender gap in self-employment most in cultures comfortable ...
A woman’s layoff delays a first child, a man’s delays the second, study finds
A Norwegian study of plant closures finds job loss reshapes family plans in gendered ways: a woman's layoff delays first ...
Feeling 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 ...
The 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, ...
How “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, ...