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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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January 20, 2020Imagining the Next Decade of Behavioral Science
We asked you to share your hopes and fears, predictions and warnings, open questions and big ideas. So, what might the next decade hold?
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December 16, 2019
Call for Ideas: Imagining the Next Decade of Behavioral Science
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Most Read Articles of 2019
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Behavioral Economics
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February 10, 2020The Mother of All Cognitive Illusions
It’s little wonder that people would believe that higher taxes would make them feel bad. But this is a cognitive error, pure and simple.
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January 27, 2020
How Immigrants Drive Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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December 9, 2019
What Happens to People and Businesses When Cash Transfers Scale?
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Education
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August 28, 2018Building Behavioral Science’s Intervention Resources in Higher Education
How can we make it easier for educators to adopt successful behavioral innovations and effectively implement them?
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November 27, 2017
College Rankings Hinder Economic Equality
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Should High Schools Require a Post-Graduation Plan?
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Marketing
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November 18, 2019The False Promises of Green Materialism
Buying less, and not buying green, is associated with greater well-being and lower psychological distress.
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November 6, 2018
What’s in a Name? The Role of Expectations, and Reality, in Our Judgements
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October 1, 2018
It Isn’t a Replication Crisis. It’s a Replication Opportunity
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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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October 21, 2019Forget the Robot Apocalypse, Focus on Building More Useful AI: A Q&A with Gary Marcus
Buzzy headlines cloud our understanding of how advanced AI really is. We should stop focusing on apocalyptic scenarios, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, and start making AI more useful.
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June 19, 2018
Your Brain Is Neither Computer Nor CEO
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Understanding the Biological Mind
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Organizational Behavior
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June 19, 2019Who Asks Questions, And What It Tells Us
Does assessing question-asking behavior give us valuable data about women’s empowerment and gender equality? Or does it simply give us one piece of data from a much larger pie?
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May 21, 2019
Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
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March 5, 2019
How Contemporary Art Fuels This Company’s Vision
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Philosophy
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December 3, 2019Gendered Division of Labor Served a Purpose. To Make Progress, Don’t Erase It. Replace It.
To eliminate women’s “second shift,” we need to understand its origins.
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September 30, 2019
Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift
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April 2, 2019
How Misinformation Can Spread Among Scientists
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Political Science
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June 13, 2018Democracy From the Sidelines: How U.S. Politics Became a Spectator Sport
The framers of the U.S. Constitution envisioned that political power would favor states and municipalities. Why is the reality so profoundly different?
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April 23, 2018
What’s True, and Fake, About the Facebook Effect
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November 6, 2017
The Myth of Civic Engagement During Trump’s Presidency
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Psychology
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February 17, 2020The Passion Economy: A Conversation with Adam Davidson
How to navigate a new economy where developing your passion can be a path to success.
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Do Words for Emotions—Like “Happy” or “Fear”—Mean the Same Thing in Every Language?
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February 10, 2020
Is Sexy in the Eye of the Pill-Taker?
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Public Policy
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February 3, 2020To Achieve Your Goals, Lump and Slice
Humans are remarkably sensitive to how we bundle and divide tasks and choices. We can use that quirk to help realize our aspirations.
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August 5, 2019
Why We Hate Taxes, and Why Some People Want Us To
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April 16, 2019
Work Requirements Are (Socially) Toxic Sludge
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Sociology
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September 19, 2019How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters
Cognitive labor is unevenly distributed between men and women in households. New research shows there’s nuance to this breakdown, with implications for how we address gender equality across society.
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August 5, 2019
How to Save Your Diversity Program From an Untimely Demise
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July 3, 2018
Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
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