Topic: Bias
Racial Minority Hosts on Airbnb Profit Less, Have Fewer Customers than White Hosts
It’s worse in conservative neighborhoods and good reviews don’t help enough
Populism’s Rise in U.S. Isn’t Only About Anger
2016 vote shares for Trump and Sanders point to a mix of negative emotions
Perceived Gender Equity: How 2016’s Election Widened a Gap
How vote outcomes affect feelings about society
Parents Who Favor Boys Raise Girls Who Score Lower in Math
A clue that parents prefer a son: They have more kids when their firstborn is a girl
News from Venus and Mars: Genders Communicate Similarly atop Organizations
Analysis of 15 years of Wikipedia editors’ chatter reveals women of rank don’t shrink from controversial topics
Narrowing a Theory on Why Judges Get Tough before Elections
They do, but only when facing a competitive election contest
Modest Financial Incentives Help with Weight Loss
Tying payments to weight, rather than behaviors, marginally more effective
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics — and Data Visualization
How we interpret time-series data is dependent on the designer’s chosen format
Is a Bad Deed That Goes Unpunished Less Bad?
In experiments, immorality and harm are deemed more extreme merely because an act was punished
In Pleas to Remedy Economic Inequality, Babies’ Faces Outperform Adults’
It’s harder to hold an infant responsible for being poor
How-To Guide for Happiness Surveys, Which Increasingly Drive Public Policy
Advice for researchers aims to help improve both data collection and its interpretation
How to Encourage the Discriminated-Against to Band Together
Membership in a stigmatized group doesn’t predispose acceptance of other stigmatized groups
Holiday Meals Shortened by Political Divide
Cell phone location data and local voting records measure discord
Go Ahead, You Decide How Much Wealth Should Be Redistributed
Can modern decision theory, paired with a half-century-old thought experiment, help make a more just society?
Gaining Status in an Online Community
How unknown individuals turn into influencers on a platform for programmers