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.
In a randomized study of 781 US adults, doing three kind acts a week for others cut depression, anxiety and loneliness over two weeks. Doing three kind things for yourself raised depression scores by about 11 points and anxiety by about 14, even though people enjoyed it more.
Testing 48 bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans 10 times over 1.5 years, researchers found stable individual differences in cognition; nonsocial tasks correlated strongly with each other, while social cognition tasks did not correlate with anything.
In a 2022 national survey of 860 Americans, 26% said they had had a mental illness. Those with a strong mental health identity had a 94% predicted chance of backing more state healthcare spending, versus 56% for those with a weak one.
Across 50,916 whisky auctions and seven experiments, age stated as a length ("10 years") felt longer than age stated as a year ("since 2015"). Length-framed bottles fetched 8.9% higher prices, while year framing raised what people would pay for used goods by 17%.