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The article focuses on a paper published in the journal "Nature" by psychologists Gabrielle Adams and Benjamin Converse on struggle of human beings with subtractive thinking. It presents views of psychologist Gabrielle Adams on psychological theory. It also presents views Benjamin Converse on human thinking, as of April 2021.

The article discusses research, published in "Psychological Science," which revealed biases in the judging/evaluation process. Topics discussed evaluators' claim that they apply standardized criteria when making judgment, the study's suggestion of biases in favor of individuals who are evaluated late in the judging process, and the judging of students, athletes and academic papers.

The article focuses on a paper on how genes influence human behavior by researcher Jari Tiihonen, published in the periodical "Molecular Psychiatry." Topics include if behavioral traits are inherited, research on genetic determinism, and how the genes MAOA and HTR2B may make people more prone to aggressive behavior.

The article discusses the notion of an endowment effect, which is the tendency of human beings to hold onto possessions. The paper "Endowment Effects in the Field: Evidence from India's IPO Lotteries" by Santosh Anagol, Vimal Balasubramaniam, and Tarun Ramodorai is addressed. Psychological effects of initial public offering (IPO) prices on investors are noted.

The article focuses on the declining interest in electronic auctions and the growth of set prices on online marketplace eBay. It states that research papers found hybrid auctions which allow auctioneers to provide a fixed price to forgo the auction proved useful for auctioneers by allowing a high fixed price to encourage buyers to think an object is valuable. It talks about how buyers found auctions to be a hassle and disliked it when people outbid their auction bid at the last second.

The article focuses on a paper by Julia Poncela-Casanovas published in the periodical "Journal of the Royal Society Interface" on the popularity of weight loss websites where users can obtain the support of other users to reach their weight loss goals. Topics include the benefits on online social networks focused on weight loss and the correlation between friends and weight loss.

The article focuses on researchers Bruno Galantucci and Gareth Roberts and their paper on the evolution of language and conversation published in the periodical "PLOS One." Topics include human behavior in communication, the transmission of information through human conversation, and the concept of duologue, which is a term coined by philosopher Abraham Kaplan describing a conversation where neither party is listening to the other. INSET: Arranging rangeomorphs.

The article discusses the effect of momentum on individual stock prices. Details about the habits of investors and the instability in stock markets are provided. Information is also presented about a working paper published by researchers at the London School of Economics (LSE) which explores the momentum effect and the response of investors to momentum.

The article offers an economic analysis of how people respond to terrorism. In looking at the public mood after a terrorist attack, economists can help, for it is their instinct to look at what people do, not what they say; to trust numbers, not anecdotes; and to look for clues in the inflections of mass behavior, not the hasty reflections of the mass media. Gary Becker, a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago, and Yona Rubinstein, of Tel Aviv University, have a working paper to examine how the general public responds to the threat posed by suicide-bombers. Killing is a means of spreading fear. Terrorists introduce a small risk of violent death into humdrum daily activities. Becker and Rubinstein argue that it is not the risk of physical harm that moves people; it is the emotional disquiet. People respond to fear, not risk.

Refers to a study that examined the negative link between aging and productivity in the field of economics. Reasons for the fall in economists' output; How ability was measured; Acceptance rates for having papers published.