Ever notice how losing $100 stings about twice as hard as finding $100 feels good?…
I am not a psychologist or an economist, and nothing here is advice about your money or your decisions.
Work & Money
Work, careers, companies and money: how organisations, incentives and markets shape the way people work, earn and decide.
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The darkside of remote work
It is 11:14pm and the only light in the room is the laptop.
There’s a reason “I’ll start Monday” keeps working — researchers found people are…
A 2014 study tracked years of diet searches, hundreds of thousands of gym visits, and tens of thousands of goal commitments and kept finding the same pattern: the urge to chase a goal spikes right after a clean line on the calendar. Here is what that does — and does not — explain.
A 2026 study links remote work with isolation and mental distress, complicating…
Here is something I have been turning over for a while.
When DeskTime studied how its users actually worked, the most productive tenth…
I have a bad habit I am not proud of.
Older adults who start giving away money before they die aren’t being reckless…
When an older person starts giving money away in earnest, funding a grandchild's deposit, signing large cheques to a cause, the reaction around them is often unease.
Psychology suggests that people who fear AI are often not only afraid of the…
In late 2024, the Pew Research Center surveyed more than 5,000 employed Americans and found that 52 per cent were worried about how AI might be used in their workplace.
The quiet reason some retirees keep waking at 5am long after no one needs them to
Many retirees keep waking before dawn even when nothing in their lives requires it. The reason isn't aging or insomnia — it's something quieter, and more deliberate, about who the early hour belongs to.
5 concepts that completely changed how I think about focus and productivity
I had a morning recently that, on paper, should have been a good one.
We treat the eight-hour day as an acceptable day’s work, but many celebrated…
Sit down to do real work, the kind that asks something of your brain, and notice how long you can actually hold it.
After combing nearly 12,000 daily diary entries from 238 workers, researchers…
Ask most managers what makes for a good day at work and you'll probably get a predictable list.
Using more than 35 years of US survey data, some researchers found Americans were…
In 2011, three researchers published a paper in Psychological Science that did something unusual with one of the longest-running datasets in American social science.