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What makes goal-setting apps motivate—or backfire?

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With the new year approaching, millions of people will turn to apps to help them get fit, save money or learn something new. Yet digital tools designed to help individuals achieve goals can sometimes backfire […]

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Smile and the world will trust you: How mimicry shapes first impressions

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How does mimicry affect the way we judge other people? Whose behavior do we imitate, and in what situations? It turns out that we are more likely to mimic people who express joy, and we […]

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Working in groups can help Republicans and Democrats agree on controversial content moderation online

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Over half of Americans believe tech companies should take action to restrict extremely violent content on their platforms, according to Pew data, yet even trained content moderators consistently disagree in their decisions about how to […]

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Federal Earned Income Tax Credit has unexpected result, researchers say—it decreases domestic violence

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Fifty years since the federal earned income tax credit went into effect and a team of researchers from UConn and City University of New York have identified an unintended benefit of the antipoverty program—a significant […]

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Study shows the 2008 recession caused people to identify with a lower class

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Class identity, which is how individuals view their economic and social positions in relation to others, has wide-ranging effects on people’s well-being, thoughts, and behavior. Previous studies have shown that people who identify with a […]

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Report calls on the UK banking industry to consider interventions that ‘design out’ economic abuse

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Researchers have published the findings of a new study that brought together victim–survivors and banking professionals to co-design ways of preventing economic abuse in the U.K. banking industry.This post was originally published on this site

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Disciplinary confinement in prison does more harm than good

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When prison inmates break the rules, they may be placed in solitary confinement—sometimes for 24, 48 or 72 hours. Although it is frequently criticized, disciplinary segregation is still widely used in Quebec’s provincial jails.This post […]

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Lapland’s next hotspot after Santa? Torne Valley seeks sustainable tourism

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In Finland, Lapland’s tourism has grown so rapidly that Rovaniemi, the region’s capital and number‑one destination, where Santa Claus has his office, is already operating at full capacity. There is very little room left to […]

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Why many Americans avoid negotiating, even when it costs them

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Would you pay more for a car just to skip the negotiation process? According to new research by David Hunsaker, clinical associate professor of management at the IU Kelley School of Business Indianapolis, many Americans […]

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Real-time social interactions reveal how we balance cooperation and competition

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When people reach for the same object, walk through a narrow doorway, forage for food, or work together on a shared task, they continuously negotiate—often without noticing—how much to cooperate or compete. Unlike classical laboratory […]

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Top Stories

  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals

    “All I want is an income of 20,000 sesterces from secure investments,” proclaims a character in a poem by Juvenal (1st–2nd century CE), the Roman poet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Treasure the emotional connections to the clothes you have and style could be a whole lot more sustainable

    With January sales around the corner, another flood of unwanted clothes risks drowning our wardrobes and the planet.This post was originally published on this site
  • Can you ‘live long and prosper’ by learning economics from Star Trek? Or is that ‘highly illogical?’

    It might seem worlds away from the Earth we know. But can “Star Trek” teach us anything about the economics of our own society?This post was originally published on this site

Highlights

  • Why central bankers look to the ‘stars’ when setting interest rates
  • AI model uses social media posts to predict unemployment rates ahead of official data
  • ‘Weights of gold in bullion’: How the ancients invested in precious metals
WHAT’S NEW
  • Why shoppers buy fast fashion even if they disagree with it
  • The ‘pawprint economy’ is booming—and it offers huge opportunities for tourism
  • ‘Lifting and shifting’ workers is not always the best answer
  • Early motherhood carries wage penalty, while delaying pays off
WHAT’S INTERESTING
  • Citizens have greater trust in parliaments with higher female representation, new research finds
  • There’s little evidence tech is much help stopping school shootings
  • Hidden bias gives ‘swing state’ voters more influence over US trade policy
  • Report challenges climate change as sole trigger of Syrian Civil War, exposing governance failures in drought response
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  • New analytics show US schools can adopt later start times without raising costs

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