Online shoppers behave differently after chatting with staff of the opposite gender, new research shows – here’s why businesses should be paying attention

A team of business researchers from the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and Sungkyunkwan University found In a digital world, where people are mere pixels on a screen, gender bias can show up in unexpected forms.

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