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?
Commentary
Smartphones Make It Easier to Follow the News, but Harder to Comprehend
While mobile devices make it possible to check in on Comey from anywhere, new research shows following the news on mobile devices is subpar when it comes to reading and actually retaining that information.
Challenges for Working-Class Students Don’t End at Commencement
For many first-generation college students from working-class backgrounds, life after college is not devoid of obstacles to upward mobility.
Overcoming the Biases That Come Between Us
It is vital for us to try harder and try smarter to understand others—especially these days.
Fifty Cents or Five Thousand Dollars?
We need creative, disruptive solutions that make a real and lasting dent on inequalities in college completion.
The Paradox of Helping: Endorsing for Others What We Oppose for Ourselves
A homeless person approaches you during the lunchtime hour, appealing for a few dollars to buy lunch. You are moved to help, but you have a choice.