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Is Writing with AI at Work Undermining Your Credibility?
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Is Writing with AI at Work Undermining Your Credibility?

With over 75% of professionals using AI in their daily work, writing and editing messages with tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude has become a commonplace practice. While generative AI tools are seen to make writing easier, are they effective for communicating between managers and employees? A new study of 1,100 professionals reveals a critical paradox...

Why Leisure Matters for a Good Life, According to Aristotle
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Why Leisure Matters for a Good Life, According to Aristotle

In his powerful book “The Burnout Society,” South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that in modern society, individuals have an imperative to achieve. Han calls this an “achievement society” in which we must become “entrepreneurs” – branding and selling ourselves; there is no time off the clock. In such a society, even leisure risks becoming...

When It Comes to Finance, ‘Normal’ Data Is Actually Pretty Weird
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When It Comes to Finance, ‘Normal’ Data Is Actually Pretty Weird

When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn out to be wrong – which may happen more often than they realize. That’s what we found in a recent...

The World Learned the Wrong Lesson From Hiroshima
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The World Learned the Wrong Lesson From Hiroshima

Reflections on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on its 80th anniversary. Eighty years ago today, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people were immediately killed, and tens of thousands more died in the months and years that followed. The bomb virtually wiped Hiroshima from existence. Paul Tibbets,...

The Psychology of a New Obedience Paradigm
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The Psychology of a New Obedience Paradigm

A review of Emilie A. Caspar, “Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience” (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Why do individuals obey commands to inflict terrible pain or even kill other people, sometimes people they may know personally? Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram’s famous—and controversial—studies in the 1960s suggested the answer lay in “agentic...

Roman Empire and the Fall of Nero Offer Possible Lessons for Trump About the Cost of Self-Isolation
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Roman Empire and the Fall of Nero Offer Possible Lessons for Trump About the Cost of Self-Isolation

President Donald Trump’s first term saw a record-high rate of turnover among his Cabinet members and chief advisers. Trump’s second term has, to date, seen far fewer Cabinet departures. But some political commentators have observed that the president this time around has primarily appointed loyal advisers who will not challenge him. As Thomas Friedman pointed...

No Clear Answers on Antidepressants in Pregnancy
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No Clear Answers on Antidepressants in Pregnancy

The US Food and Drug Administration recently convened a panel of experts to examine a sensitive and increasingly urgent question: should antidepressants be prescribed to women suffering from depression during pregnancy? To the surprise of many in the American medical community, the panel included not only US-based experts but also three international voices known for...

Women Politicians Judged More Harshly Than Men, Research Finds
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Women Politicians Judged More Harshly Than Men, Research Finds

When women political candidates deviate from expectations or the views of their party, they are judged far more harshly than men by voters, a new study in Politics & Gender, published on behalf of the American Political Science Association by Cambridge University Press, reveals. The research also found that voters begin campaigns with greater uncertainty about women...