While an uptick in sexual harassment would be among the most serious manifestations of that kind of change, Low notes that there are also plenty of potential implications for our everyday lives—in and out of the office. When study participants became more aggressive, for example, they left more money on the table because they couldn’t reach a compromise. Payoffs went down by an average of $1 after the election. “People’s behavior changed in a way that was less productive,” she says.

And in case anyone is wondering if the researchers had it out for Trump—who many Wharton students and alums are embarrassed to be associated with—let them disabuse you of that notion: it was merely a happy coincidence.

“We didn’t know Trump was going to be elected; we didn’t set out to study Trump’s election,” said Low. “We had the [lab experiment] sessions on the calendar already, and post-election, we looked at the data and saw that people’s behavior was profoundly different.”

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The bizarre saga of Bill Gross and PIMCO comes to an $81 million conclusion

Among the great stories of Wall Street luminaries seemingly losing their minds and subsequently being forced out of the financial institutions they helped build, the saga of Bill Gross versus PIMCO stands out from the pack. For those who need a quick recap:

In January 2014, PIMCO co-C.E.O. Mohammed El-Erian announced, seemingly out of nowhere, that he would be leaving the firm, using the “I want to spend more time with my family” claim people trot out when they don’t want to tell you the real reason they’re going away.

Later that March, Wall Street Journal reporters Greg Zuckerman and Kirsten Grind offered some clues as to why, in a piece that noted Gross “doesn’t like employees speaking to him or making eye contact . . . and at times reprimands those who break [his preferred silence], even if they’re discussing investments”; was known to issue “communication demerits” that affected bonuses for infractions as minor as forgetting to number a page on a presentation; criticized an employee for not standing when a client visited the trading floor and “suggested” that employee write a $10,000 check to PIMCO's charitable foundation, which the employee felt obliged to do; and referred to himself as “Secretariat,” the unstoppable thoroughbred.

About a week later, Gross placed a call to a reporter at Reuters, claiming that El-Erian had ghostwritten the Journal article, in an attempt to “undermine” him, “indicated [to Reuters] that he had been monitoring El-Erian’s phone calls,” and, when it became clear he was not going to get Reuters to see things his way, whined, “You’re on his side. Great, he’s got you, too, wrapped around his charming little finger.”