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 ...

Some people haven't received all their Social Security benefits, even though they paid into the system. A new law changes ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Life is sometimes unfair. But it doesn’t have to be. Good people can step up to difficult conversations and listen to each other ...

She spoke about the fundamentals of unfairness, how we can resolve these feelings, the relationship between fairness and well-being, as well as the results of her research and their implications for ...