Category: Business

Research suggests the move that makes someone feel heard in a disagreement may not be telling them their heart is in the right place — in a preregistered experiment with 558 US adults, a stranger who guessed at their reasons and called them valid had about twice the effect, and neither version measurably moved opinion further than a flat counter-argument already did

You have probably used the polite version. Someone disagrees with you about something that matters, and before you explain why they are wrong, you tell them you are sure they want what is

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AI’s first visible employment shock may be hitting the bottom rung of the career ladder: by June 2026, employment among 22–25-year-olds in highly AI-exposed occupations was running 19% behind their less-exposed peers, largely because companies were hiring fewer juniors—not firing experienced workers—raising an uncomfortable question about who becomes tomorrow’s senior analyst, lawyer or coder.

The first visible AI jobs shock may not look like a layoff announcement. It may look like a vacancy that was never posted. That is the unsettling possibility raised by a revised Stanford

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