Following 12,211 Britons born in one week of March 1958, economists found childhood creativity predicted higher career earnings, better jobs and more education. In their working paper, one standard deviation more creativity meant about 2% higher pay.

Using lotto draws from Belgium and France and Euromillions data, two economists show that tickets containing the lucky number 7 earn significantly lower prizes, because parimutuel payouts are shared among the many players who choose it.

In a German survey of 1,504 people and three US experiments with 846 participants, perceived social breakdown raised support for authoritarianism (5.22 vs 3.51 on a 7-point scale) by first eroding political control and then creating political uncertainty.

In 536 five-month-old twins, eye tracking showed that sustained preference for faces over objects had a heritability of 0.46, with no detectable effect of shared family environment. Babies who looked longer at faces understood slightly more words at 14 months.

Across 11 studies with North American samples, observers judged people who stayed neutral on contested sociopolitical issues as no more moral than people who openly opposed them, because they read neutrality as apathy or strategy rather than genuine indecision.

Television ads recruiting plaintiffs against makers of blood thinners reduced prescription fills for the targeted drugs and increased hospitalizations for conditions the drugs treat, such as stroke, according to a study of US Medicare data from 2015 to 2019.

Analyzing the technical challenge of The Great British Bake Off, economists found that expert judges rank the first bake they taste more favorably, in the British show and other English-speaking versions, with no recency effect.

Analysing 1,134,512 complaints to the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, researchers estimate that using an LLM raised the chance of relief by 6.9 percentage points. Experiments showed AI edits helped through clearer presentation, with the facts unchanged.