Fields
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Anthropology
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May 21, 2019Copy Ourselves Out of Existence? A Conversation on Decision-Making in the Age of Social Influence
No one quite knows how a local radio station in Texas managed to have one of the most popular posts on Facebook.
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April 10, 2018
War for Peace Among Wild Chimpanzees
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Behavioral Design
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April 23, 2019Broadening the Nature of Behavioral Design
How might our sense about what we should solve, or even what qualifies as a problem worth solving, be biased by how we think about what we can solve?
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April 9, 2019
How Better Urban Planning Can Improve Gender Equality
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April 2, 2019
What if You Could Vote for President Like You Rate Uber Drivers?
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Behavioral Economics
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April 16, 2019Defaults Are Not the Same by Default
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science’s most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
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March 19, 2019
The Hidden Costs of Reminders
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Neoliberalism After Behavioral Economics
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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 6, 2018What’s in a Name? The Role of Expectations, and Reality, in Our Judgements
When marketers set expectations that are too great (or not great enough) they can run into trouble.
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October 1, 2018
It Isn’t a Replication Crisis. It’s a Replication Opportunity
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June 27, 2017
Gambling on the Dark Side of Nudges
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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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June 19, 2018Your Brain Is Neither Computer Nor CEO
The ways we typically talk about the brain lead to a neuro-mythology, one that fails to either advance public understanding or meaningfully answer how the brain and mind work.
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Understanding the Biological Mind
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April 30, 2018
The Human Instinct: A Conversation with Ken Miller
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Organizational Behavior
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May 21, 2019Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
To fix the hiring process, we have to replace hubris with heuristics.
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March 5, 2019
How Contemporary Art Fuels This Company’s Vision
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October 16, 2018
The Study Premortem: Why Publishing Null Results Is Only the First Step
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Philosophy
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April 2, 2019How Misinformation Can Spread Among Scientists
In the mid-19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis knew hand-washing could save lives. But he didn’t know a strong social network could thwart good evidence.
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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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May 14, 2019Making the Social Leap: A Conversation on How Our Psychology Evolved
How we conceive of behaviors like self-control, overconfidence, and happiness today bears little resemblance to their evolutionary origins, argues psychologist William von Hippel.
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May 7, 2019
Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
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April 9, 2019
The Passion Paradox: A Conversation with Brad Stulberg
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Public Policy
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April 16, 2019Work Requirements Are (Socially) Toxic Sludge
Work requirements for anti-poverty programs don’t encourage work. Instead, their principal effect is stripping people of the benefits they rely on to survive.
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March 12, 2019
Venture Capitalists Are Using the Wrong Tools to Improve Gender Diversity
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September 17, 2018
What the Origins of the “1 in 5” Statistic Teaches Us About Sexual Assault Policy
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Sociology
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July 3, 2018Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
How some are getting a new study of self-control wrong.
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June 22, 2018
How Not to “Take Up Space” While Taking Up Space
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April 30, 2018
Racism in Customer Service
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