How a mutation undermines cardiac function

How Optimism Undermines Executives’ Decisions

How Subtle Sexism Undermines Women

How the growth of denialism undermines public health.

Unstressing intemperate models: how cold stress undermines mouse modeling

Mus musculus enjoys pride of place at the center of contemporary biomedical research. Despite being the current model system of choice for in vivo mechanistic analysis, mice have clear limitations. The literature is littered with examples of therapeutic approaches that showed promise in mouse models but failed in clinical trials. More generally, mice often provide poor mimics of the human disea...

Deception and Incentives How Dishonesty Undermines Effort Provision

In this paper we show that subtle forms of deceit undermine the e¤ectiveness of incentives. We design an experiment in which the principal has an interest in underreporting the true performance di¤erence between the agents in a dynamic tournament. According to the standard approach, rational agents should completely disregard the performance feedback of self-interested principals and choose the...