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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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March 6, 2023Three Tensions Behavioral Design Must Navigate
Design’s development from buzzy hotshot to established practice offers insight into the path behavioral design could take and the choices it will face along the way.
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February 21, 2023
To Make Cash Transfers Go Further, Customize for the Context
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February 6, 2023
Six Prescriptions for Building Healthy Behavioral Insights Units
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Behavioral Economics
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March 20, 2023The Psychology of Overhead Aversion—and What It Means for Charitable Work
Why are people so averse to paying charities’ overhead costs? What could knowing more about overhead aversion mean for successful fundraising? We conducted an experiment to find out.
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January 26, 2023
The Power of the Stora Rör Swimming Association and Other Local Institutions
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April 19, 2022
The Five Vital Signs of a Scalable Idea and How to Avoid a Voltage Drop
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Economics
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December 1, 2022A New Look at the History of U.S. Immigration: A Conversation with Ran Abramitzky
In their book, Streets of Gold, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan use big data to trace the stories of immigrants to the United States. Their findings are a call to revise many popular beliefs about U.S. immigration.
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Slavery and Economic Growth in the Early United States
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Education
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December 12, 2022The Biggest Challenges Facing Higher Education Are Those of Student Belonging. EdTech Can Help.
More and more students feel isolated and that they don’t belong in college, a trend fueled by the pandemic era move to remote learning. But while technology has been part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution.
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September 12, 2021
Helping Students Avoid the “Engagement Cliff” through High School Redesign
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April 26, 2021
Should Video Lectures Be the New Normal in Higher Ed?
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Marketing
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March 13, 2023The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs. Abstract Language
When trying to make language either more concrete or more abstract, one helpful approach is to focus on either the how or the why.
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July 18, 2022
Customer Segmentation Needs a Behaviorally Informed Upgrade
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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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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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November 14, 2022Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene
While important in the short term, the power of the market and technology alone will not save us in the long term. In the long term, we will have to change the way we think.
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October 16, 2022
The Open Secret of What Works—and What Doesn’t—for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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September 13, 2021
No Need to Shout: Recognizing the Influence That’s Already Yours
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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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March 20, 2023Psychology’s Increased Rigor Is Good News. But Is It Only Good News?
We should have greater confidence than before that findings we read about in journals will replicate. What’s good about this is evident. But do we pay a price for increased rigor?
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March 6, 2023
The Art and Science of Arguing: A Conversation with Mehdi Hasan
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February 21, 2023
Seeking a Science of Awe: A Conversation with Dacher Keltner
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Public Policy
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October 10, 2022How a Sludge-Filled Policy Stoked Uncertainty and Fear for Immigrant Families
In 2019, a harsh immigration policy deterred many immigrants from applying for the public assistance they needed. A revamped rule aims to right that wrong.
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August 24, 2022
Revising America’s Immigration Myths, Past and Present
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May 18, 2022
Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
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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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