SwatDeck, Diversity, and the Science of Networks
By bringing together four random students for an adventure in Philadelphia, could we rewire the social connections on our campus?
Reports
You Can’t Ape It: Art Outsiders Can Tell The Difference Between Abstract Art and Finger Paintings
Anyone who’s stood before one of Cy Twombly’s gigantic scribbles or Jackson Pollock’s chaotic drip paintings knows it doesn’t take an expert to be a critic.
ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions
It’s well documented that the consequences of childhood poverty are immediate and long-lasting. By their first day in school, children in poverty score worse than their middle and upper class peers on nearly every developmental measure from language use to attention skills.
NPR Launches New Show Exploring the ‘Invisibilia’ of Human Behavior
What is it like to go through each day imagining stabbing an innocent person? Your wife?
Senate Report Calls CIA Tactics Inhumane and Ineffective, Details Unethical Application of Psychology
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) interrogation program following 9/11 details a horrifying program of physical and psychological torture that they argue was ineffective in eliciting new intelligence.
Affirming Their Way to the Top: How A Small Intervention Could Help Close the Social Class Achievement Gap
Almost a fifth of all undergraduate students in America are the first in their families to go to college.