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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A word of caution to researchers using digital platforms to run their studies: beware of bots. They’re more sophisticated than you might think.
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.
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.
How can we design studies so that we learn from them, even if they “fail?”