If You’re Given Three Wishes, Don’t Forget About Happiness
Success first, then happiness, we tell ourselves. But perhaps we’ve got it backwards.
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How Can Organizations Promote Gender Equality? Iris Bohnet on ‘What Works’
Today, women comprise only 25 percent of the STEM workforce, 4 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs, and earn 79 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to an average income difference of $10,762 per year. The numbers tell the story—gender inequality is still a pervasive problem in the U.S.
More than a Game: What Sports Can Teach Us About Morality, Consciousness, and World Peace
On a winter day in 2013, it was so cold at Lambeau field, home of the NFL’s Green Bay Packers, that the stadium’s beer and soda machines froze.
The Paradoxes of Creativity: Sensitive Rockers, Mindful Daydreamers, and Celebrated Outcasts
In their new book, Wired to Create, psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman and author Carolyn Gregoire explore the contradictions of creativity. Creativity is never one thing or another, they find. It isn’t clean, it’s messy.
The Edge of Belief: Maria Konnikova on the Art of the Con
Her journey into the world of confidence men and women takes the reader to the edge of reality, belief, and trust.
The Behavioral Insights Team 5 Years On: A Conversation with Owain Service
Today, nearly 200 randomized control trials later and with their findings permeating virtually all areas of public policy, the creation of the BIT and the wedding of behavioral science and public policy might seem like forgone conclusions.