Early Edutainment: The Behavioral Scientist’s Guide to Fairy Tales
Fairy tales exemplify behavioral science in action (even if it’s unintentional), illustrating the power stories have to influence our thoughts and behavior.
Fairy tales exemplify behavioral science in action (even if it’s unintentional), illustrating the power stories have to influence our thoughts and behavior.
Thinking carefully and creatively about the distant future can sharpen our thinking about the present, even if what we imagine never comes to pass.
Literature can open up a wider range of examples that illustrate core behavioral science principles.
Behavioral scientists take pride in the interdisciplinary nature of our research, yet we rarely draw on accounts of human nature generated outside of the social sciences.