Across nine studies, ads that evoke awe cut interest in limited edition products. In a Facebook campaign, an awe-filled ad for a limited-edition wine drew a 1.04% click-through rate versus 3.07% for a plain one.
A large nationally representative US survey found that people who call themselves narcissists show more political ambition and are more likely not only to want office but to actually run for it.
During eight ChatGPT outages in 2023, US stock trading volume fell by about 10% of its average, with larger drops for firms with fresh news and for stocks held by short-term institutional investors.
A Nature meta-analysis of 46 cohorts identified 1,260 variants linked to the Big Five traits, 824 new. Common variants explain 4.8% to 9.3% of trait differences, effects hold across countries and raters, and family background barely confounds them.
Copying three features of the red wood ant's mandibles, researchers redesigned a keyhole-surgery needle holder; 3D-printed models showed force transmission up to 433% of the original without making the tool bigger.
In nearly 200,000 Vancouver home sales, adding a virtual tour raised sale prices by about 1% on average, but the boost shrank after COVID-19 doubled their use, and it helped most in hot markets and for less experienced agents.
In a representative sample of 580 Americans and two follow-up studies, people preferred less vehicle automation for themselves than for others, because they rated themselves safer and more trustworthy drivers than everyone else.
In two experiments with 405 students playing Call of Duty in pairs, players with more experience and higher scores reported less hostility and better mood. Experience lowered hostility mainly by improving performance.
Video of mathematicians solving hard proofs showed that their shifts between blackboard inscriptions became steadily less predictable starting more than two minutes before they voiced a sudden insight, an early warning sign like those that precede tipping points in ecosystems.
Across the EU-27 from 2014 to 2020, political messaging on Facebook and LinkedIn boosted the electoral success of right-wing populist parties, while left-wing parties' activity on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn did not.