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Offloading work tasks to AI comes with a costto our brains

Imagine your team has been tasked with delivering a high-stakes policy paper under intense time pressure. Everyone turns to generative artificial intelligence (AI), and within minutes, it delivers a full draft complete with ...

Economics & Business

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Study on impact of changes to information reporting on gig workers' behavior uncovers unreported income

Because of the recent rise of platform gig work, more U.S. workers are being compensated through self-employment. Their earnings are not subject to tax withholding but are generally covered by information reporting on Forms ...

Economics & Business

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Study of behavior-related digital dieting apps finds different effects of persuasion-related features

The booming smartphone industry has spawned an enormous market in health-related mobile phone applications, with apps related to dieting making up about 12% of the market. The apps use persuasive systems design, including ...

Social Sciences

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Studies find media literacy, social media use can predict trust in institutions, civic engagement

New research from the University of Kansas has found that the more media-literate people are, the more they trust institutions such as government and nonprofits. In addition, their social media habits can predict civic engagement.

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Archaeologists unveil skeletal remains believed to be ritual offering in Peru

Archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled the skeletal remains of an adult they believe was buried as an offering near the base of Huaca Pucllana, an ancient adobe pyramid in Peru's capital of Lima.

Archaeology

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Volatile weekly work hours may have adverse effects on health, employment

Workers who juggle volatile work hours that change from week to week may experience adverse health effects that affect their ability to work, although the limitations vary by gender, say researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Economics & Business

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UK politicians vastly overestimate public opposition to climate policies, study finds

Members of Parliament from the UK's three biggest political parties in the House of Commons significantly overestimate levels of public resistance to major policy proposals for tackling climate change, a University of Cambridge ...

Political science

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Alumni relationships can affect court rulings between judges and lawyers

New research in Economic Inquiry provides evidence of in-group bias operating within the judiciarya setting where impartiality is expected.

Education

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Artificial intelligence acts as an 'ideological chameleon' and may deepen political polarization

Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of So Paulo, Brazil, examined the ideological stance of large language modelsartificial intelligence systems trained to understand and generate human ...

Social Sciences

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New study links bad bosses with greater work intensity

Work intensity is significantly higher under poor line managers, according to new research led by Bayes Business School (City St George's, University of London) that could have strong implications for global occupational ...

Economics & Business

15 hours ago

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Experiment shows how AI discoveries can shape human cultural evolution

Artificial intelligence can develop solutions that humans would be unlikely to discover on their own. But what happens when machines do more than solve individual problems and actually discover entirely new solution strategies? ...

Social Sciences

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New bone analysis challenges long-held theory on farming's arrival in Ireland and Great Britain

New research led by University College Dublin has rewritten a key chapter in Irish prehistory, revealing that bones long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland belong to bear and wild boar, not cattle.

Archaeology

22 hours ago

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They're content creators with thousands of adoring fans. So why do they feel so terrible?

If given the chance to gain thousands of admirers for your work, would you take it? The artists whom my colleagues and I interviewed as part of our research on content creators didand many went on to question whether it ...

Social Sciences

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Premium customer, quickest service? Not so fast, at least in a world of agentic AI-driven services

It's conventional wisdom in the business world: Premium customers get a pass to the front of the line. Think airports or amusement parks. But new research from the University of Michigan finds the best approachat least in ...

Economics & Business

14 hours ago

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Digital spirituality grows, but young people still rely on family and faith leaders

Social media, music, religion-focused apps and other online spiritual content have become popular ways for adolescents to find comfort and connectionand explore ideas related to faith, religion and spirituality, according ...

Social Sciences

13 hours ago

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Why Korean 'aegyo' speech sounds cute: Adults raise vocal resonances to sound younger and smaller

In Korean, the term "aegyo" denotes a playful cuteness put on by adults to win someone's affection, typically in romantic contexts. This is usually accomplished with bashful expressions or a childlike manner of speaking sometimes ...

Social Sciences

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Research helps NYC students aim higher in public high school applications

Many New York City eighth-gradersparticularly those from underserved communitiesaren't applying to academically competitive high schools where they could succeed, according to new Cornell research.

Education

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Before COVID-19, children's likelihood of coming in contact with the US child welfare system had already decreased

A new study shows that fewer children had encounters with the U.S. child welfare system in the years before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and that this decline continued over the following years.

Social Sciences

16 hours ago

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Canada's AI strategy needs educators who feel prepared, not just trained

The Canadian government recently introduced AI for All, a national artificial intelligence strategy that has two focuses: building trust and creating opportunity.

Education

16 hours ago

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Drug policies should communicate drug safety over user punishment

A new study found that people's beliefs about the harmfulness of an illegal substance are stronger predictors of support for both punishment and court-mandated treatment than beliefs about who is to blame.

Social Sciences

17 hours ago

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