Hiring Isn’t Rocket Science: Why the Most Boring Strategy Is Best
To fix the hiring process, we have to replace hubris with heuristics.
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Spreading the Wealth: The Preference to Distribute Donations
Donors face a tradeoff between helping broadly and helping deeply.
Broadening the Nature of Behavioral Design
How might our sense about what we should solve, or even what qualifies as a problem worth solving, be biased by how we think about what we can solve?
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Defaults Are Not the Same by Default
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science’s most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
Work Requirements Are (Socially) Toxic Sludge
Work requirements for anti-poverty programs don’t encourage work. Instead, their principal effect is stripping people of the benefits they rely on to survive.
How Better Urban Planning Can Improve Gender Equality
In the mid-1990s, public officials in Vienna found something surprising when they studied who was using their public parks.