In two studies, younger and middle-aged adults rated older people who felt younger than their age as less warm, competent and likeable, and were less willing to interact with them, because they were seen as breaking age stereotypes.
In a field experiment with 70,000 job applicants, interviews run by AI voice agents raised job offers by 12%, job starts by 18% and 30-day retention by 17%, and 78% of applicants given the choice picked the AI.
In a field experiment with 1,810 Facebook users, removing 82% of ads lifted active time by just 6%, while swapping targeted ads for untargeted ones cut ad clicks and, in the long run, reduced time on the platform by 13%.
Using Uber's own trip counts for every US census tract, economists found ridesharing reduced traffic fatalities by 5.2% in areas where it operates, mostly at night and on weekends, saving lives worth $6.8 billion a year.
Sorting 160 people as rich or poor from photos, observers scored 0.63 accuracy with bodies, 0.61 with whole persons and 0.54 with faces, where 0.50 is chance; plain body silhouettes (0.59) beat clothing details (0.52).
Weekend reviews carry a 3% lower share of 5-star ratings and a 6% higher share of 1- to 3-star ratings than weekday reviews, and the gap comes mainly from who chooses to write on weekends, not from worse products or moods.
In a lab experiment with 201 students, pairs who did a 45-minute closeness exercise in a cold, cluttered office felt as close and as romantically interested as pairs in a cozy lounge with lamps, art and a couch.
A meta-analysis of 154 studies with 10,189 participants found meditation, mindfulness, relaxation and yoga cut anger and aggression (g = -0.63), while arousing activities like punching bags or running had no overall effect and jogging increased anger.
Students who just missed Indiana's third-grade reading cutoff and repeated the year scored over half a standard deviation higher in reading and math in fourth grade, with a reading gain of about 0.2 SD still visible in seventh grade and no sign of extra discipline or absences.
Studying 220,992 forecasts by 1,392 U.S. analysts, researchers found that those near company headquarters, peers and investors lost accuracy after COVID lockdowns forced remote work, especially star analysts; the edge returned once offices reopened.