Fairness means listening to different perspectives and opinions. It does not always require giving equal weight or time to those different sides. So how does this work in practice? When people have ...

It’s hard to create a workplace that employees believe to be fair. In a 2023 market survey of more than 4,400 workers from Great Place To Work®, only 36% of employees at an average company said they ...

Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one ...

The economist Bart Wilson has an interesting post on one of the more important experiments that behavioral economists have run, the ultimatum game. The core insight that economists have gleaned from ...

We've all been there. You're dying to grab that last piece of cake on the table during an office meeting, but you are not alone. Perhaps you just cut off a small piece—leaving something behind for ...

As organizations increasingly rely on algorithms to rank candidates for jobs, university spots, and financial services, a new method, named hyperFA*IR, offers a more principled approach when picking ...

It’s never been a secret that life isn’t fair; it bears out in countless racial, gendered, economic, and geographical ways throughout a lifetime. But even the most privileged and the most sheltered ...

Concerns about financial fairness often occur when a financial benefit or expense is distributed differently among two or more people or groups of people. For example, a financial benefit might be ...