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The classic pratfall experiment did not find that mistakes make everyone charming. The same coffee spill helped a superior candidate and hurt an average one.
A study of 137 S&P 500 mandate firms found no significant financial lift, while Glassdoor ratings of satisfaction, work-life balance, leadership and culture declined.
Only children are not consistently happier than children with siblings, and research does not show that sharing early causes harm. Attention and relationship quality matter more.
Research on future self-continuity suggests retirement delay can involve identity as well as discipline, though early face-ageing studies measured hypothetical choices.
Across 12 experiments, people underestimated how caring strangers would be in deeper conversations and expected more awkwardness than they later experienced.
Research suggests that sociability and a preference for solitude can coexist, but intelligence alone does not explain persistent loneliness or a need for deeper conversation.
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.
