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Emotional intelligence (EI) has been studied intensively since the early 1990s, and a stubborn stereotype has developed that women possess more EI than men. Yet is that really the case? A meta-study of 1,279 academic articles comprising 609,278 participants from 76 countries over 3 decades finds a far more nuanced result.

The cold-start problem: many skilled older workers seek to transition from full-time stressful jobs to more flexible work, but freelance platforms don’t adequately recognise their credentials so there is a mismatch, says research co-authored by Dr Sienna Helena Parker of Cambridge Judge.

Box-office receipts matter in Hollywood. But research in the Journal of Business Ethics co-authored by Allègre Hadida of Cambridge Judge Business School shows that the most dominant persuasive appeal in 35 chosen cli-fi films is rational appeal, and this holds implications for how climate is presented in cinema as filmmakers balance ethical storytelling with commercial imperatives.