Matching perceived weight from photos of 3,612 candidates in the 2022 US Congressional elections with real results, researchers found obesity carries an electoral penalty about 50% as large as not having a college degree, across parties, offices and genders.
An analysis of nearly 7 million Yelp reviews from 2006 to 2021 found the share of anxiety-related words rose by about 20%, across states and restaurant price levels, and faster than words for anger or sadness.
Across 38 countries, lifetime fertility is 0.32 children per woman higher (14%) when both partners work from home at least one day a week than when neither does. In U.S. data the gap is 0.45 children.
Reviewing decades of studies, psychologists conclude men chase partners harder, gain more health benefits from relationships and suffer more after breakups. In one US study 49% of men named their partner as their main confidant, against 20% of women.
In five studies, creators born into high wealth or beauty were judged less authentic than those with low or moderate privilege, which lowered ratings of what they made. Acknowledging their privilege did not help; mixed privilege softened the effect.
Across five studies with over 2,200 participants, seeing suffering as shared and potentially enriching was linked to less distress and better adjustment, and in a 1,151-person experiment, an enriching framing lifted mood while a universal framing raised common humanity.
Five preregistered experiments show most people accept price increases that follow cost increases as fair, but that judgment weakens or reverses when firms shrink products instead, because downsizing is seen as deceptive.
Framing a break as falling between two tasks, not in the middle of one, halved rumination in one experiment (20 vs 40 on a 100-point scale) and raised post-break output from 2.02 to 2.40 words found per minute.
In a lab study of 18 adults reading tongue twisters before and after drinking, a machine learning model using voice spectrograms identified intoxication above 0.08% breath alcohol with 98% accuracy, 98% sensitivity and 97% specificity.
Across five studies with 2,896 people, victims who chose not to broadcast their mistreatment were rated as better moral partners. In one study they scored 6.95 out of 9, against 4.70 for victims who complained widely.