Making Play a Habit
Pediatricians stress the importance of spontaneous play for children. Behavioral scientists understand the power of routine and predictability for busy parents. Where’s the middle ground?
Pediatricians stress the importance of spontaneous play for children. Behavioral scientists understand the power of routine and predictability for busy parents. Where’s the middle ground?
Life can look quite different when a culture’s enforcement of norms is tight or loose.
Although simple heuristics often yield “biased” decisions, they can deliver a better answers. What might this mean for today’s complex algorithms?
Literature can open up a wider range of examples that illustrate core behavioral science principles.
The stories we tell about sexual assault—the lone, serial predator—oversimplifies the truth and obscures the solution. Betsy Levy Paluck is one of the researchers trying to tell a more accurate story.
Students from underrepresented groups are still told, in ways both systemic and subtle, that they don’t belong in higher education. New research suggests that true inclusiveness requires two types of policy.