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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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May 18, 2020Why Triggering Emotions Won’t Lead to Lasting Behavior Change
How can we generate long-term behavior change when compliance isn’t exciting anymore? (Hint: don’t build “Piano Stairs.”)
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Changing Lives to Create A Sustainable World: A Lesson from Selayar Island
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April 20, 2020
Responding to COVID-19 in the Developing World
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Behavioral Economics
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April 8, 2020A Portal and a Trap: The Many Ways Coronavirus Will Impact Women
This moment could be a portal into a world where caregiving responsibilities are divided more equally between partners, where we value care work for what it actually is—the backbone of our entire economy.
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March 20, 2020
Why Are People Ignoring Expert Warnings?—Psychological Reactance
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March 16, 2020
Why a Group of Behavioural Scientists Penned an Open Letter to the U.K. Government Questioning Its Coronavirus Response
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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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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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May 9, 2020Chaos Has a Light Side: A Conversation with Lulu Miller
When NPR science reporter Lulu Miller heard about a taxonomist who sewed names directly onto his fish specimens after the 1906 earthquake ruined his collection, her ears perked up.
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May 3, 2020
Self-actualizing in the 21st Century: A Q&A with Scott Barry Kaufman
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April 13, 2020
Epistemic Humility—Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic
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Public Policy
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May 7, 2020How to Lock Down an Open Society
In order for governments to promote public health effectively, they must ensure their citizens abide by public health orders, without turning their open societies into police states.
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April 30, 2020
Behavioral Public Policy Faces a Crisis
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March 18, 2020
#ChecksChecksChecks: Why We Need a Universal Basic Income Now
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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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