Every card payment appears instant, but the money can travel through several companies and decades-old settlement systems before it actually reaches the merchant
Understanding the Journey Behind Card Payment Approval
When a card terminal approves a purchase, it often does so before the receipt has even finished printing....
Strangers who watched sixty seconds of silent footage guessed people’s income and social class better than chance: the dining habits we read as ‘poor’...
Reading Between the Bites: How Dining Habits Reveal More Than Just Taste
There is a particular kind of business dinner where the deal is not...
The generation that came of age with answering machines, handwritten letters, and phone books isn’t nostalgic for slower technology, they remember when being unreachable...
The Evolution of Reachability: From Answering Machines to Always-On Culture
In 1994, an answering machine did not make a household continuously reachable. It stored a...
The Dunning-Kruger effect isn’t what everyone thinks it is: the original 1999 study found bottom-quartile performers overestimated their standing by about 50 percentile points,...
The Misunderstood Legacy of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect is arguably one of the most frequently misused concepts in popular psychology. Its simplified portrayal...
People who go quiet during group photos aren’t always camera-shy: for some, being told to look happy for a picture asks them to perform...
Understanding the Quietness During Group Photos
At almost every gathering, there is a small cluster of people who drift toward the back when a phone...