The purpose of this research is to determine how fintech and online platforms affect behavior and financial decision making. Investing and trading apps are common among Gen Z and Millennial users because of the convenience, and trust users have towards online platforms. Social media is well known for incentivising mindless herd behavior and celebrities can utilize these platforms while endorsing crypto. Celebrity endorsement often contributes to poor financial advice of their followers and may lend credibility to scams (White and Wilkoff, 2023). Technology advances changed how we live our lives, and has made us adapt to various mobile applications for different uses. Financial technology is one of the most growing and transformed technologies that is now allowing for new users to start investing, trading, or make impactful financial decisions easier and more accessible. To support financial inclusion, some P2P lending platforms have incorporated blockchain and crypto collateral (Gonzalez, 2022). This study analyzes finance students conditioned through testimonials towards pro-social decision making on a mock P2P site.

As new technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), start to be implemented into the workplace it allows people to complete many tasks more efficiently. This includes how leaders could manage and communicate within the organization. Previous research shows that for a leader to have strong outcomes they must be perceived as credible, legitimate, and honest. This study aims to see people's perceptions of the CEO regarding their openness, credibility, and care for their employees when they think the CEO is using AI to communicate. To test this, we surveyed the general public and asked them to read an email from a CEO to the employees. Participants were randomly assigned to think the email was written by either 1) the CEO, or 2) a communication team, or 3) AI. Participants were then prompted to answer questions regarding their perception of the CEO. The key hypothesis is that when the CEO communicates through an email written by AI, the participants will show negative feelings toward the CEO. Therefore, our anticipated results are that people who read the email that was said to be written by AI will feel that the CEO was not very open with them, that the CEO didn’t care about their employees, that the CEO wasn’t credible, and that they don’t have much confidence in their CEO. The importance of this study is to get a better understanding of how people will accept AI being used by leadership to manage a company or communicate with the team.

Research on the Home Math Environment (HME) disproportionately highlights white and middle-to-high SES families and results from these studies may not be generalizable other cultural contexts. Given the rising U.S. Latino student population entering the U.S. school system, it is important to engage this population in research on the HME and ensure strength-based approaches are taken into consideration to increase Latino student’s success. In this study, we conduct an analysis of U.S. Latino parent participation with their child’s education to examine how their HME engagement varies across the number of children in the household. Specifically, we will take into consideration if, and how, this variation occurs across direct and indirect HME activities. Results of this study will provide researchers with insights to facilitate further exploration of the HME and intervention development within Latino family’s contexts to continue to examine Latino children’s learning of math language during the preschool years.

Schizophrenia is typically diagnosed by its positive symptoms of hallucinations, delusions, and irregular behavior. However, the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are often overlooked despite its profound interference with everyday life and functionality. Currently, antipsychotic medications primarily treat positive symptoms and have shown to have minimal effects on negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia. Antipsychotic medication’s lack of efficacy brings attention to alternative treatment options. Although most studies have investigated its use in depression, a growing number of studies have begun to assess electrical stimulation effect on symptoms and cognition in schizophrenia. There is a lack of research looking into numerous moderating variables such as stimulation site, dosage, etc. on negative and cognitive symptoms. These issues will be examined by performing a systematic search and conducting a meta-analysis following PRISMA guidelines (Moher et al., 2009). This study aims to determine whether these non-invasive brain stimulation treatments are viable as well as identify various treatment or patient characteristics that may affect the efficacy of these treatments. By refining and progressing the issue of non-invasive brain stimulation as an effective treatment option for the negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, future research could focus on pinpointing the active components of these treatments. Some key components would include finding the underlying mechanisms involved in specific negative and cognitive symptoms.