Explore the electric, surprising, painful, and peculiar paths that our ideas take—and take us on.
A new study featuring more than 7,000 participants from six countries found that choice deprivation—a feeling of not having enough to choose from—not choice overload is the most common consumer experience.
What I learned about emotions when I traded Amsterdam for Ann Arbor.
Nudges won’t solve every problem, but they can help solve two hard problems. And that’s reason to be optimistic about their future.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for September 2022.
In its print form, Brain Meets World takes readers on a hero’s journey of ideas, through prose, poetry, historical archives, and art. Now we’ll explore these journeys in a series of live conversations this fall.
In an unstable world, big data isn’t always best. Reducing the amount of complexity can lead to more accurate predictions.
To better understand immigration to the U.S., we need to distinguish nostalgia from reality. Our data helps us do just that.
But it’s exhausting when you’re one of the only ones carrying that weight.
A recent pair of articles offer wildly different verdicts on nudges, and show how we urgently need a new kind of debate.
For your brain, grief is a learning problem, and it can only be solved with new experiences over time.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for July 2022.
