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When researchers examined return-to-office mandates across S&P 500 companies, they found no significant improvement in financial performance or firm value, but a clear fall...

Return-to-office mandates are usually announced in the language of outcomes. Leaders talk about productivity, collaboration, culture and the creative energy that supposedly appears when people share a building. Those benefits may exist in particular teams. Yet when researchers examined mandates...

Some only children report greater happiness than children with siblings, but decades of research do not blame sharing too early — parental attention and...

Two children reach for the same toy. An adult steps in with the lesson nearly every sibling hears: take turns, be fair, let your brother or sister have some. It is easy to build an appealing theory from that scene....

Most advice on becoming happier assumes it is up to you, but the evidence is humbler: much of the variation is dispositional, the claim...

The advice on how to become happier is endless, confident, and mostly built on the same assumption: that your happiness is a project, largely under your control, waiting for the right routine of gratitude lists and cold showers. The...

Being self-absorbed is usually heard as an insult, but decades of psychology suggest it is closer to the mind’s default: we sit at the...

Self-absorbed is a word we throw at other people. The colleague who turns every meeting back to himself, the friend who never asks a question, the relative who treats a conversation as a waiting room for his own turn...

The people who rise fastest in most organisations are rarely the most competent, they are simply the most confident, and decades of research suggests...

You have almost certainly worked with the person this piece is about. They speak up first in meetings. They volunteer opinions on subjects they have never studied. They are described, in their performance reviews, as having presence, gravitas, or...

UNSW medical robotics spinout raises $8.6m for US ambitions

The round for UNSW spinout Vexev was backed by existing investors Blackbird, Neotribe, Startmate and Horizon, with TreeArc Investment Group, TEN13, Bioshore and Alumni Ventures also joining the cap table. Vexev was founded in Sydney in 2018 by John Carroll...

Research suggests that the most warm and generous people are sometimes the loneliest, and the explanation isn’t that kindness pushes people away, but that...

You will probably know someone like this. Possibly you are someone like this. They are the friend everyone calls when something has gone wrong. They remember your birthday, ask after your parents, notice when you seem off, and turn...

Enrola’s pivot to AI sales-tech lands $2.1 million Seed

The round was led by Purpose Ventures, with support from existing backers Antler, AfterWork Ventures and Skalata. As an education comparison platform, it previously raised $800,000 in a pre-Seed round in late 2024, having initially launched as part of the...

ProcurePro secures shot at $1.4 million Startup World Cup prize

Tim will join the winners of the Sydney and Melbourne finals, travelling to San Francisco in November to compete against startups from around the world for the Startup World Cup title and its US$1 million investment prize. The Australian group...

Attraction behaves less like a fixed physical fact than a running judgement: in one study an unpleasant personality made people rate the same face...

The genre of advice about killing attraction treats it as a fixed asset you can squander: be too keen, too available, too anything, and you drain a fund of desire the other person arrived with. It is a tidy...
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