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Your Friends Have More Friends Than You—and That’s a Good …
1 天前 · If you’ve ever been bothered by the feeling that your friends have more robust social lives than you do, you’re not alone. Lots of people feel that way, and, mostly, they—and you—are right. For decades, social scientists have recognized what’s …
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2024年10月18日 · Howard P. Forman. October 11, 2024. More than two million people have lost their vision, in whole or in part, to trachoma—a preventable infection that is widespread in areas with poor sanitation. Dr. Howard Forman writes that the campaign to eradicate trachoma by 2030 has achieved an important victory: eliminating the disease as a public ...
Who Has the Secret to Manufacturing Success? | Yale Insights
3 天之前 · Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump propose to use government clout to strengthen the U.S. manufacturing industry—though they have very different proposals for how to accomplish this goal. According to an analysis by Yale’s Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and co-authors Laura Tyson and Steven Tian, the record of the last two presidential terms shows the Harris approach to be more effective at actually ...
The Truth Beneath the Economic Misinformation | Yale Insights
September 06, 2024. This commentary originally appeared in Fortune. Writing in the journal Public Opinion 1951, Yale researchers Carl Hovland and Walter Weiss labeled their postwar studies on the trick of persuasive messaging regardless of the truth as “the sleeper effect.”. They found that a message lingers through repetition, even if ...
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2024年7月29日 · A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Heather Tookes shows that women are less likely to get funding compared to men with similar entrepreneurial history. One reason is that investors who have experienced a poor outcome from a woman-led startup shy away from other women founders—but benefitting from successes of women founders doesn’t ...
Is the Era of Shareholder Primacy Over? | Yale Insights
2024年9月11日 · Murray offered an explanation for why shareholder primacy made sense in an earlier time, and why it no longer does. In the 1970s, more than 80% of the value of Fortune 500 companies came from capital-intensive, physical stuff—factories, equipment, inventory, etc. Murray said, “In that world, you definitely are going to put a higher priority on the shareholders who are giving you the ...
The Roots of Economic Inequality - Yale Insights
2018年12月4日 · The Roots of Economic Inequality. A new study shows that deeply ingrained social behaviors play a role in perpetuating economic inequality. Yale SOM’s Michael Kraus, one of the authors of the study, says we all need to mind the widening gap between rich and poor. The United States is divided by wealth and social class, and the gap is widening.
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation | Yale Insights
2023年3月31日 · How Social Media Rewards Misinformation. A majority of false stories are spread by a small number of frequent users, suggests a new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Gizem Ceylan. But they can be taught to change their ways. In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, posts and videos promoting natural remedies for the virus—everything from ...
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2024年1月29日 · Cameron LaPoint. March 15, 2024. A new paper co-authored by Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint looks at an effort in 1980s Japan to narrow economic inequalities between geographic regions, in order to understand the potential impact of the similar U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, enacted in 2022.