A meta-analysis of 569,859 people and 43,851 deaths found agreeableness had no link to mortality, while conscientiousness cut the risk of death by about 10% (HR 0.90), extraversion by 3%, and neuroticism raised it by 3%.
In most of six experiments with about 1,700 Americans, roughly 63% to 65% of invitees thought a host would prefer a "maybe" to a "no", while only 34% to 48% of hosts did, and 80% of invitees said "maybe" anyway.
Adults who watched a short video of two actors debating immigration gave longer, richer explanations of their own views: 46% weighed both sides, against 29% after separate monologues. Probing questions alone made views simpler.
Using procurement data for 322 Chinese cities from 2014 to 2019, economists find that denser surveillance networks cut crime, especially publicly visible crime, at an estimated cost of about $6,373 per crime prevented.
Charities bunch just above Charity Navigator's star cutoffs, a response equal to halving administrative spending and partly driven by misreporting, while moving from three to four stars raises contributions by 6%.
Across 12 getting-acquainted studies with 1,835 students, people rated their liking for a new partner at 5.26 out of 7 but guessed the partner liked them at only 4.71, while partners' actual liking was also higher than guessed.
A news-attention index built from Bloomberg data for all 50 US states explained 29% of the variation in next-quarter house price growth, and a one standard deviation rise in coverage predicted 0.37% faster price growth the following quarter.
In more than 9,500 firm-years from 2017 to 2024, companies better able to work remotely saw financial misconduct drop after 2020. Going from the first to the third quartile of remote-work feasibility cut the likelihood of misconduct by about 2 percentage points, against a 2.7% average.
Tracking 65 million workers at over 280,000 US firms, the study found junior employment at generative AI adopters fell about 9% relative to senior employment within six quarters, driven mainly by slower hiring.
An analysis of 2.05 billion Reddit comments found that discussions grow more negative over time, and that the drift disappears once the uniqueness of comments is accounted for. In an experiment with 4,000 people, negativity rose only when participants were rewarded for standing out.