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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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October 12, 2020To Solve COVID-19, We Need to See It for What It Is: A Configuration Crisis
We have the necessary raw materials to deal with the pandemic—where we fail is in matching skills and resources to the problems they could fix.
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October 5, 2020
Dispatches from the Behavioral Scientists Fighting Coronavirus in the Global South
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Who Is Doing Applied Behavioral Science? Results from a Global Survey of Behavioral Teams
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Behavioral Economics
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July 6, 2020Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2020
What would summer be without a good reading list? A list of our favorite behavioral science reads from 2020 so far.
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June 22, 2020
Why Economics Needs More Black Women
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April 8, 2020
A Portal and a Trap: The Many Ways Coronavirus Will Impact Women
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Education
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October 12, 2020Education Can’t Stop During the Pandemic—and Neither Can School-Based Research
Behavioral research in education is more essential than ever, as students deal with remote learning and a national reckoning with racism.
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September 7, 2020
The Road Back to College Is Paved with Barriers, but Behavioral Science Can Help Smooth the Way
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August 28, 2018
Building Behavioral Science’s Intervention Resources in Higher Education
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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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August 31, 2020Illuminating the Links Between Light and Disease
We are experiencing too much of the wrong kind of light at the wrong part of the day, writes Ainissa Ramirez. Here’s how these lights affect our health and some ideas for what we can do about it.
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June 15, 2020
The Threat of Boredom Is a Call to Action
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October 21, 2019
Forget the Robot Apocalypse, Focus on Building More Useful AI: A Q&A with Gary Marcus
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Organizational Behavior
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June 4, 2020Black Lives Matter: Now What?
If you find yourself asking what you can do to spark change and help prevent the next George Floyd murder, my advice is: start engaging in positive deviance.
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June 19, 2019
Who Asks Questions, And What It Tells Us
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May 21, 2019
Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
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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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April 5, 2020In Times of Disagreement, How to Find Unsticking Points
How a single ten-minute “deep canvassing” conversation can enduringly reduce prejudice.
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June 13, 2018
Democracy From the Sidelines: How U.S. Politics Became a Spectator Sport
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April 23, 2018
What’s True, and Fake, About the Facebook Effect
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Psychology
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October 7, 2020Time Confetti and the Broken Promise of Leisure
We have more free time than ever before, but it’s so sliced and diced that we feel more time poor than ever. Here’s how to notice and overcome the time confetti in your life.
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September 28, 2020
How Focusing on Individual Achievement Favors the Upper Class
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September 21, 2020
The Earthquake that Catalyzed the “Humanitarian Big Bang”
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Public Policy
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June 1, 2020We Have a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society
If things return to the way they were, we will have failed.
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May 7, 2020
How to Lock Down an Open Society
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April 30, 2020
Behavioral Public Policy Faces a Crisis
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Sociology
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June 8, 2020How Racism Shapes My Habits
Behavioral scientists love to talk about habits—creating more of the good ones, overcoming the bad. But the context is usually self-improvement, not self-preservation. Here’s a different perspective on habits.
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September 19, 2019
How Couples Share “Cognitive Labor” and Why it Matters
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August 5, 2019
How to Save Your Diversity Program From an Untimely Demise
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