Join us for a conversation about the science of behavior change—from public health tools to slow the pandemic to keeping New Year’s resolutions.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Where there’s sludge, there’s an end user who’s come off worse. Understanding how to remedy sludge comes down in part to understanding the motives behind it.
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 November 2020.
New research identifies a reason people may flout COVID-19 restrictions around the holidays: because altering longstanding rituals is perceived as an affront to sacred values.
As the world begins to open back up in fits and starts, we are, more than ever, longing for certainty. But certainty is likely a long way off. In the meantime, we should turn to practical wisdom to guide us.
Developing countries have faced hard challenges in confronting coronavirus. Lacking trust in government could help explain why.
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.
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.
We typically try to avoid boredom. But in trying to outrun boredom, we risk failing to heed its call.
