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Anthropology
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December 3, 2019Pursuing the Psychological Building Blocks of Music
Humans are wired to produce and understand music, suggest researchers in an ambitious new study. Despite the evidence, not everyone is likely to be convinced.
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May 21, 2019
Copy Ourselves Out of Existence? A Conversation on Decision-Making in the Age of Social Influence
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April 10, 2018
War for Peace Among Wild Chimpanzees
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Behavioral Design
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August 2, 2022Making Sense of the “Do Nudges Work?” Debate
A recent pair of articles offer wildly different verdicts on nudges, and show how we urgently need a new kind of debate.
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June 14, 2022
Six Prescriptions for Applied Behavioral Science as It Comes of Age
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May 24, 2022
An In-The-Box Method for Creative Problem Solving
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Behavioral Economics
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April 19, 2022The Five Vital Signs of a Scalable Idea and How to Avoid a Voltage Drop
One of the first steps to reaching scale is not losing steam as your idea grows. Here are five specific and universal causes of voltage drops and how to avoid them.
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December 1, 2021
How ‘Greedy Work,’ More than Bias, Explains the Persistent Gender Wage Gap
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September 21, 2021
Five Takeaways from Our Conversation with Richard Thaler about the Past, Present, and Future of Nudge
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Education
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September 12, 2021Helping Students Avoid the “Engagement Cliff” through High School Redesign
Proactively connecting students to opportunities that align with their interests could help students thrive at school and help build pathways to careers in the community.
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April 26, 2021
Should Video Lectures Be the New Normal in Higher Ed?
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October 12, 2020
Education Can’t Stop During the Pandemic—and Neither Can School-Based Research
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Marketing
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July 18, 2022Customer Segmentation Needs a Behaviorally Informed Upgrade
We have the technology and behavioral science know-how to approach market segmentation as something that’s ongoing and dynamic, rather than set once and static.
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May 10, 2021
Too Much of a Good Thing—Overly Positive Online Ratings—Makes for Difficult Decisions
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October 19, 2020
How Sight—Not Taste, Smell, or Touch—Became the Sense of the Supermarket
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Network Science
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April 2, 2019When the Nerves of Knowledge Send False Signals: A Conversation on Our Age of Misinformation
How do false beliefs spread, and what are the consequences?
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December 4, 2018
The $2 Million Urinal: Why Hard Work Doesn’t Cut It
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May 29, 2018
“Bursty” Communication Can Help Remote Teams Thrive
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Neuroscience
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August 2, 2022Walking in the Dark: Creating a New Virtual Map in Your Brain After Loss
For your brain, grief is a learning problem, and it can only be solved with new experiences over time.
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September 6, 2021
From Strangers to Teammates: How Getting on the Same Wavelength Might Be More than a Metaphor
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March 15, 2021
What Dreams May Come and Why and How
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Organizational Behavior
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September 13, 2021No Need to Shout: Recognizing the Influence That’s Already Yours
There is plenty of advice on how to gain influence you don’t have. Here’s how to harness the influence that’s already yours.
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March 8, 2021
Poorly Run Labs Are a Threat to Behavioral Science, But Democratic Principles Offer a Way Forward
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October 19, 2020
It’s Time You Got Time Smart: A Q&A with Ashley Whillans
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Philosophy
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April 19, 2021We Can All Be Fundamentalists, and Fundamentalism Is Everywhere
A conversation with the authors of “Minds Wide Shut” about how to avoid a destructive, and pervasive, mode of thinking that affects all of us.
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December 3, 2019
Gendered Division of Labor Served a Purpose. To Make Progress, Don’t Erase It. Replace It.
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September 30, 2019
Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift
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Political Science
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May 3, 2021How “Social Penumbras” Explain Shifts in Attitudes Toward Different Social Groups
Why have some groups fighting for acceptance been successful while others have not? It’s about who you know and how many know you.
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April 5, 2021
To Reduce Political Hostility, Civility Goes Further Than Compromise
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April 5, 2020
In Times of Disagreement, How to Find Unsticking Points
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Psychology
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June 28, 2022The Supreme Court Overturned Roe. Will Americans’ Views Toward Abortion Change?
We’ve spent the past few years trying to understand the social psychological impact of major Supreme Court decisions. Here’s what our data suggest about the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling.
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June 22, 2022
How Psychology Could Change the Way We Understand Consent
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April 12, 2022
Opening up Science—to Skeptics
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Public Policy
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May 18, 2022Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
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June 28, 2021
Brief Takeaways from U.N. Behavioral Science Week
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June 21, 2021
Breaking the Silence: Can Behavioral Science Confront Structural Racism?
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Sociology
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April 26, 2021What Our Pets Can Tell Us About Our Future With Robots
In her new book, robotics ethicist Kate Darling argues that we should look to our furry companions to understand the promises and pitfalls of our future with robots.
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June 8, 2020
How Racism Shapes My Habits
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September 19, 2019
How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters
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