In a national sample of 2,916 Israeli Jews, health and well-being rose step by step from secular to ultra-Orthodox on eight of nine measures. Life satisfaction averaged 7.07 out of 10 among secular Jews and 8.87 among charedim.
In an experiment where advisers and receivers shared the same incentives, women were more reluctant than men to give advice on difficult questions. Ability did not explain the gap, confidence explained only part of it, and it disappeared when advice became enforceable.
In an experiment with 147 children aged 5 to 10, feedback suggesting they were gender-atypical made all children worry about judgment, but only younger girls and older boys acted more gender-typical, and only boys avoided anything feminine.
More press coverage of a firm strongly predicts weaker fundamentals, earnings surprises and higher odds of bankruptcy, dividend cuts and delistings, a Management Science study finds, as the financial press tilts toward negative news.
Five nationally representative surveys from 2002 to 2019 show Chinese democratic values declined in the 2010s, the Xi Jinping era, and that Generation Z does not hold stronger democratic beliefs than earlier cohorts. People born 1971 to 1985 stand out for backing independent branches of government.
Sonar and divers mapped 1,673 stones laid in a 971-meter line 21 meters under the Baltic Sea off Germany; the wall drowned about 8,500 years ago and was probably a hunter-gatherer drive lane for reindeer.
Using machine learning on more than 4.3 million Glassdoor reviews of S&P 1500 firms from 2008 to 2023, researchers built a quality index that predicted future quality better than firm fundamentals or Glassdoor ratings, and helped forecast product recalls, brand value and profitability.
Across two Zoom studies with 938 students and about 5,000 conversations, people judged new acquaintances’ personalities as accurately as in person. When audio and video quality was poorer, they judged less accurately and liked their partner less.
In World Values Survey data on about 58,000 people in 44 countries, those who called themselves not very or not at all happy were more likely to discuss politics with friends and urge others to vote or take political action.
When COVID-19 travel bans hit in March 2020, births fell in Canada and the US but not in comparable European countries. The gap implies about 970 births a month in Canada (3.2%) and 6,700 in the US (2.2%) are to people arriving from abroad.