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 September 2020.
If things return to the way they were, we will have failed.
This moment could be a portal into a world where caregiving responsibilities are divided more equally between partners, where we value care work for what it actually is—the backbone of our entire economy.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Science is set up in a way that systematically penalizes research on females and female-related health issues…but not necessarily for the reasons you think.
To eliminate women’s “second shift,” we need to understand its origins.
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?
In the mid-1990s, public officials in Vienna found something surprising when they studied who was using their public parks.
It is time for venture capitalists to stop trying to change hearts and minds and start redesigning their firms.
The stories we tell about sexual assault—the lone, serial predator—oversimplifies the truth and obscures the solution. Betsy Levy Paluck is one of the researchers trying to tell a more accurate story.
