The Future of Nudging Will Be Personal
While a nudge might appear effective because a population benefited on average, at the individual level the story could be different. It’s time nudges got personal.
March 15th, 2021
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March 08th, 2021
Poorly Run Labs Are a Threat to Behavioral Science, But Democratic Principles Offer a Way Forward
Labs with stark power imbalances harm those lower on the academic hierarchy and fail to produce good science. Decoupling power from expertise can help fix broken models of producing research.
December 07th, 2020
Overcoming Science Fictions: Stuart Ritchie on Living Up to the Ideals of the Scientific Process
In his new book, Stuart Ritchie reveals how fraud, bias, negligence, and hype have pulled our scientific systems further and further away from our ideals, but also how we can use science to reclaim them.
August 24th, 2020
The Benefits of Statistical Noise
Statistical noise is nearly universally considered an impediment to sound decision-making. But what seems like noise to those shaping the rules may actually be critically important to those on the receiving end.
Research Lead: Hypocrisy, Soccer’s Geisterspiele, the Causation Taboo, Reasons to Doubt Anti-Bias Parenting Advice, 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 August 2020.
June 29th, 2020
Research Lead: Nudges Work on Thaler Too, Psychology’s Racial Blindspot, Overestimating How Much Your Political Rivals Hate You, 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 June 2020.
November 25th, 2019
How to Battle the Bots Wrecking Your Online Study
A word of caution to researchers using digital platforms to run their studies: beware of bots. They’re more sophisticated than you might think.
November 11th, 2019
Solving the Problem of “Obviousness” with Prediction Platforms
In the fall issue of Public Opinion Quarterly in 1949, sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld pulled one of my favorite social science head fakes of all time.
October 21st, 2019
Registered Reports Remove Pressure on Researchers to Get the “Right” Results
Don’t be tempted to rewrite research history. Registered reports can help you design and evaluate studies with guards against changing the story once the results come in.
October 16th, 2018
The Study Premortem: Why Publishing Null Results Is Only the First Step
How can we design studies so that we learn from them, even if they “fail?”
