How can the private sector harness behavioral science to help their customers, employees, and society? It starts with helping them find the right opportunities.
Does assessing question-asking behavior give us valuable data about women’s empowerment and gender equality? Or does it simply give us one piece of data from a much larger pie?
Building an ethical workplace means not searching for “bad apples.” Instead, create a different kind of environment.
Economists have widely embraced the behavioral-economics revolution, but their textbooks have not. The “standard model” continues to dominate Econ 101 and introduce new generations to a neoclassical fantasyland.
Cyberattacks stem overwhelmingly from basic human error, not coding bugs or chip flaws. Yet user-centered approaches to cybersecurity are routinely treated as an afterthought.
Stanford University’s Social Psychological Answers to Real-world Questions, or SPARQ, is setting out to do what most budding social scientists hope to do: change the world. Through working directly with the public – policy makers, educators, non-profit leaders – SPARQ’s mission, as its rather lengthy but straightforward name suggests, is to develop and help implement […]
