Help Students Navigate Life’s Transitions With a Mindset GPS
Transitioning to anything new—a job, a relationship, living in a new place—can take time. Feeling uncertain, out of place, and unprepared is common.
May 14th, 2018
education
May 07th, 2018
Building Better Community Colleges through Behavioral Science
Students at community college face unique challenges but, too often, are less supported. New research suggests that behavioral science can narrow the gap.
How My Mother Overcomes the “Mother of All Biases”
My mother has opinions. Lots of them. Strong ones. These beliefs are decreed with the force of gospel to all comers.
April 30th, 2018
The Benefits of Admitting When You Don’t Know
We all might be a bit better off by learning to say “I disagree with myself” every now and then.
July 12th, 2017
A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell: Revisiting Brown v. Board
Was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board based too much on the psychological harm that segregation caused and not enough on the structural inequality that continues to this day?
May 22nd, 2017
Bringing Sociology Back
Behavioral scientists can answer some questions better via a collaborative approach.
June 21st, 2016
Can We Nudge Parents to Read to Their Kids?
In an increasingly busy world, many parents have a hard time regularly engaging with their kids.
February 22nd, 2016
The Bias Against Creativity
As Asimov declared in his famous 1959 essay on creativity and idea generation, “The world in general disapproves of creativity.”
June 13th, 2015
Teachers Like You Like You: How Finding Common Ground Could Help Close the Achievement Gap
We like people like ourselves. Scientists call it the homophily principle, which states that like birds, people tend to flock with others who look and think and act like themselves.
December 15th, 2014
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.
