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AI set to transform personality testing, new research finds

Personality tests are widely used in workplaces to shape recruitment, leadership training and team building. But what if artificial intelligence could make them faster, smarter and more accurate? New research from the University of East […]

‘Drive‑off’ fuel thefts cost millions even before the war—and they’re heading up

With petrol and diesel prices soaring, we’re hearing more reports of alleged fuel thefts from petrol stations, farms, trucks and even parked cars. The Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association’s chief executive officer, Rowan Lee, […]

How labor movements may help rebalance power in the technology sector

Wide swaths of American workers are more meaningfully involved than in the past in organizing around and pushing back against artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven technologies in the workplace, a Rutgers study has found. Rutgers […]

Employee referrals may trigger bias: Colleagues see referred hires as less meritorious

Employee referrals can aid hiring but carry hidden downsides. New research by Rellie Derfler-Rozin at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and Teodora Tomova Shakur of Texas Christian University finds that […]

Even if it goes nowhere, an SEC investigation will cost you

Everybody acts differently while they are being watched, especially by those with authority. Whether it’s your boss sitting in the next cubicle next door or a cop car driving behind you, observation leads to behavioral […]

In flight simulators, crews with better rapport perform better, study finds

Picture a cockpit crew of two who met just minutes before takeoff, now descending through a turbulent midnight sky. They aren’t looking at each other—their eyes scan the instruments in the cockpit and the horizon […]

New study outlines privacy solution for retail central bank digital currencies

New research shows that retail central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) can be designed to protect user privacy, one of the biggest concerns surrounding the future of digital money. Professor Iwa Salami of the University of […]

If using ChatGPT is cheating, what about ghostwriting? The old debate behind a new panic

In February 2023, a little more than a year after the launch of ChatGPT, Vanderbilt University sent an email to its student body in the wake of a fatal campus shooting at Michigan State.This article […]

Tourism work builds 100 transferable skills, study shows

People working in tourism and hospitality develop more than 100 transferable skills—from empathy and resilience to problem-solving and communication—that are in demand across every sector of the economy, according to research from the University of […]

Does a company’s political power affect its success in obtaining federal contracts?

A study published in Contemporary Economic Policy investigated the extent to which a company’s political investments influence their success in the competition for federal contracts.This article is brought to you by Phys.Org.