Betsy Levy Paluck Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Betsy Levy Paluck, a psychologist at Princeton University, was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
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Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, is this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Charlottesville’s Battle for Human Nature
On Saturday, I woke up to white vans carrying white supremacists through my neighborhood.
All the (Pseudo)Science That’s Fit to Print
“Behind the ears, and directly above the Mastoid Process, is located a brain organ by the name of Vitativeness.”
Welcome to the Behavioral Scientist
We are a new online magazine with a unique mission in today’s media landscape: make the valuable insights gathered from behavioral science accessible and useful to society.
Haven’t Finished Your Taxes? Planning Prompts Help Turn Intention into Action
With Tax day less than two weeks away, my guess is that you fall into one of two camps.