Building Trust to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic in Developing Countries
Developing countries have faced hard challenges in confronting coronavirus. Lacking trust in government could help explain why.
August 31st, 2020
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August 11th, 2020
Challenges Facing a COVID-19 Vaccine: A Behavioral Science Perspective
In addition to creating a COVID-19 vaccine, we need a major push to understand how people will react to it. Here are the questions we need to ask now to get ahead of the potential behavioral challenges.
July 06th, 2020
Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2020
What would summer be without a good reading list? A list of our favorite behavioral science reads from 2020 so far.
June 29th, 2020
How to Remedy “Better-than-Average” Effects
Believing that you are better than others has powerful implications. But do you actually know that you’re better?
June 22nd, 2020
Secondhand Smoke, Moral Sanctions, and How We Should Respond to COVID-19
We are reluctant to tell people how to live their lives, except insofar as individual decisions affect the lives of others. We can learn a valuable lesson for the present moment from the examples of smoking and drunk driving.
May 18th, 2020
Why Triggering Emotions Won’t Lead to Lasting Behavior Change
How can we generate long-term behavior change when compliance isn’t exciting anymore? (Hint: don’t build “Piano Stairs.”)
April 30th, 2020
Behavioral Public Policy Faces a Crisis
Our field wasn’t ready for a pandemic. We must learn its lessons before the next emergency.
April 20th, 2020
To Achieve Sustainability, We Need to Go Upstream in the Design Process
Behavioral scientists have a crucial role to play in the world’s quest for environmental sustainability. But to realize the potential of our work, we need to work with designers not just end users.
April 05th, 2020
In Times of Disagreement, How to Find Unsticking Points
How a single ten-minute “deep canvassing” conversation can enduringly reduce prejudice.
March 30th, 2020
Research Lead: Supporting Self-Nudgers, the Nudge FORGOOD Ethical Framework, No Raw Data No Publication
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for March 2020.
