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In temporary leaderless groups, speaking time predicted who peers saw as the leader, but nomination and effective leadership are not the same.
A review of 20 health-habit studies found typical formation estimates far beyond 21 days, while showing why 59 days and 335 days also need careful interpretation.
A 44-country study finds that mental ill-being now declines with age, largely because younger adults have deteriorated. The data are striking, but more specific than the headline suggests.
The approval at a card terminal is a fast message, not the merchant receiving money. Clearing, net settlement and a separate bank payout can still follow.
The generation raised on screens faces an unexpected crisis: digital natives working from home are lonelier than their grandparents.
The headline combines a Spanish Quiet Ego Scale validation, a separate two-form model of humility, and an untested question about workplace exploitation. Here is what the papers actually found.
The most rigorous studies on AI's impact on work productivity contradict each other—and suggest our intuitions about speed gains may be dangerously misleading.
The estimates we make before starting work shape everything that follows—yet we're terrible at making them accurately.
The pursuit of feeling good and the search for meaning are not the same thing—and only one of them survives the initial rush.
A massive study of thousands of careers reveals an uncomfortable truth: the most successful people were rarely the most talented, just the luckiest.
The ocean's mental health benefits aren't folklore anymore—new research reveals who gains most, and why childhood beach days echo through adulthood.
The link between a diploma and lifetime earnings is undeniable, but whether school actually teaches you to succeed—or simply proves you always could—remains economics' most consequential unsettled question.
