In 2,095 real applications in China, applicants whose looks and university prestige matched got 11.7% callbacks versus 6.8% for mismatched ones, and a survey of 2,020 US hiring staff showed the same pattern.
Across 9,248 Airbnb hosts in seven US cities, a smile in the host's profile photo raised bookings by 3.5% on average, worth about $673 a year for a typical property. The boost was biggest for male hosts, new hosts and riskier neighbourhoods.
In nine experiments, describing a missed goal as "didn't make time" rather than "didn't have time" made people feel more in control of their time, which raised their motivation to reengage and improved their views of goal-related products.
Across three studies, being good at perceiving negative emotions at work worsened attitudes toward coworkers and jobs and increased withdrawal, through emotional contagion. Skill at perceiving positive emotions brought no measurable benefit.
Across 10 studies with 4,110 US adults, about 75% reported concealing an infectious illness from others, mostly for social or work reasons, and people who were actually sick concealed it regardless of how harmful it was.
Surveys of more than 6,600 people in up to 17 countries, plus a daily diary study, found that members of individualist cultures were more motivated to make others feel better, more likely to express care, and less likely to tell others to suppress emotions.
When five Holland cities defaulted in the 1480s, creditors in 's-Hertogenbosch sent a Carthusian monk to arrest Holland merchants and seize their goods and land; the reprisals recovered 644 guilders in wares and about 300 guilders a year in seized income.
Physicians in the US House sponsor 2.8 more health bills per Congress than other members and are 66% more legislatively effective on health policy, but their bills lean twice as often toward the health industry as toward patients.
Analysing hundreds of millions of US job ads from 2014 to 2022, economists find the skill profiles of 1,326 occupations grew steadily more alike. Pairs of jobs that converged saw their wage gaps narrow and more workers move between them.
Tiny technological particles could drift across the Galaxy and settle on the Moon. Finding none in a cubic metre of lunar soil would rule out Sun-like stars typically shedding more than about a tenth of an Earth mass of durable debris.