It’s Not a Lack of Self-Control that Keeps People Poor
When considering poverty, our national conversation tends to overlook systemic causes. Instead, we often blame the poor for their poverty.
Psychology
Show Me the Meaning! A Review of Barry Schwartz’s Why We Work
The television show Mad Men gets much of its insight from holding up a bygone work era to spotlight just how much societal views have changed in a short time and how unenlightened those notions seem today in retrospect.
How Incentives Hinder Innovation
Imagine you are a CEO intent on increasing your employees’ creativity so that your company can be more innovative.
Psychology’s Largest Replication Effort Reveals Low Rates of Reproducibility
During the past three years, 270 researchers from around the world recreated 98 psychology studies from three top journals to see if they could produce the same results.
Searching For Suicide: Can Google Predict Suicide?
In graduate school, I had an engineering friend named Steve who proposed that he and I, a psychologist, team up to create a machine to predict the future.
The Emotions That Make Us More Creative
Artists and scientists throughout history have remarked on the bliss that accompanies a sudden creative insight.