Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2024
The summer book list is a chance to peruse a collection of the most compelling behavioral science books published so far this year.
June 05th, 2024
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May 27th, 2024
Ellis Island Echoes: The Emotional Legacy of Ancestral Diversity
Why are some cultures more emotionally expressive than others? One explanation could be that overt emotion helped people overcome diverse linguistic and cultural barriers.
February 25th, 2024
How Culture Shapes the Stories We Tell About Our Emotions
To capture human emotion in all its richness, we have to broaden where and how we study it.
December 20th, 2023
Behavioral Scientist’s Notable Books of 2023
Our list of noteworthy behavioral science books published in 2023.
June 05th, 2023
Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2023
The summer book list is a chance to peruse a collection of the most compelling behavioral science books published so far this year.
April 03rd, 2023
It’s a Bouba, Not a Kiki: The Relationship Between Sound, Form, and Meaning
We don’t assume that we can understand the meaning of words based on their sound alone. But a long history of research in psycholinguistics hints that we’re better at it than we might think.
March 13th, 2023
The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs. Abstract Language
When trying to make language either more concrete or more abstract, one helpful approach is to focus on either the how or the why.
December 01st, 2021
Research Lead: Mistaking Google’s Knowledge for Your Own, Oversimplifying Effects of Tech, Scientists ‘Donate’ a lot of Time to Journal Publishers, and More
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 2021.
January 23rd, 2020
How Much Does Our Language Determine Behavior?
In his latest book, David Shariatmadari explores how the language we speak impacts the way we see the world, and our behavior in it.
August 31st, 2017
“Blow the Whistle” or “Stop the Leaks”?
The way we talk about the disclosures from the Trump administration highlights nuances of language that have fascinated behavioral scientists—especially about the role of metaphor.
