Our Envy of Prospective Events Is Greater Than of Those Past
That’s helpful information in a social media world filled with friends who do enviable things
How Aware Are Companies of Competitors’ Use of Robots and AI?
Also: fake reviews on Amazon; the impact of the LA mansion tax; and the valuable location data your phone collects
Disclosure of Climate Risk Helps Stocks Trade More Smoothly
Dropping facts into a polarized investor pool reduces the impact of ideology and leads to broader ownership
Gesturing Left to Right for Passage of Time Occurs by Age 6
Cultural norms — reading and the calendar — affect native English-speakers’ motioning constructs
Multiple Choice — No Time Limit
Headphones and feelings, preventing hospital readmissions, and the relationship between meaning in life and happiness
Middlemen: Matchmakers or Sources of Strategic Information?
Probing that question using a database of for-sale-by-owner home listings
Some Homeowners Pay Their Underwater Mortgages Until the Government Offers a Better Option
Federal loan modification program led borrowers to default
For New College Grads, the AI Jobpocalypse Didn’t Arrive
Even counting grads who want a job but aren’t looking, summer 2026 looked like other recent summers
Origin Story of Products: To Consumers, How Big a Team Seems Right?
Buyers value team over individual effort but are sensitive to invention-by-committee
Companies at Risk of an Earnings Miss Allow More Third-Party Trackers on Their Websites
Managing earnings at the cost of privacy
A Stabler Climate Means Stronger Traditions
The link between environmental stability and cultural change explains why cultures evolve
The Surprising Power of Giving Up Choice Control
Abdicating a decision to someone else is viewed as an act of generosity that is handsomely rewarded
We’re All Being Tracked. What Can We Learn From It?
A primer for researchers on use of smartphone location data offers a glimpse of how we’re watched
Is Telling the World of Your Success Worth Five Times Your Private Knowledge of It?
The difficulties of study design in a braggy culture where few readily admit to bragging
Why We Think Differently About Money Than About Probabilities
Learning gradually versus all at once and how we estimate value
Maximizing Life Saving through Better Placement of Defibrillators
Just putting one where the last cardiac arrest occurred isn’t optimal — more calculations to get to fewer steps