When Harm Helps: Building Choice Architecture for Investors
How can we design a system for investors that allows for potentially harmful behavior but minimizes the harm such behavior causes?
Behavioral Design
How Behavioral Science Can Be Good for Business
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Three Ways Behavioral Science Can Help End Poverty
Can behavioral science help end poverty? We think so, and we have a few ideas.
When Google Speaks, People Listen…and They Should: A Review of Work Rules!
There is another way—a way that leads to happier workers, more fulfilling work, and more successful companies.
ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions
It’s well documented that the consequences of childhood poverty are immediate and long-lasting. By their first day in school, children in poverty score worse than their middle and upper class peers on nearly every developmental measure from language use to attention skills.
Reading Bee-tween the Lines: BeeLine Reader and Spritz Raise Research Questions
We looked into the science behind BeeLine Reader, which was recently awarded first prize in a Social Entrepreneurship competition at Stanford University, and another speed-reading app, Spritz, to find out more about how they work and if they work.