Breaking the Silence: Can Behavioral Science Confront Structural Racism?
For too long, the field has confused its limitations with powerlessness.
June 21st, 2021
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May 24th, 2021
Research Lead: Groups Are Only As Smart as Their Cockiest Member, Nudging Versus Boosting, Saying Bye to the DSM? 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 May 2021.
May 03rd, 2021
How “Social Penumbras” Explain Shifts in Attitudes Toward Different Social Groups
Why have some groups fighting for acceptance been successful while others have not? It’s about who you know and how many know you.
April 26th, 2021
Research Lead: An Unexpected Sense of Culpability, Sifting Through Positive Reviews, Social Tipping Points, 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 April 2021.
April 19th, 2021
We Can All Be Fundamentalists, and Fundamentalism Is Everywhere
A conversation with the authors of “Minds Wide Shut” about how to avoid a destructive, and pervasive, mode of thinking that affects all of us.
March 22nd, 2021
Research Lead: Disputed Data on Crime-Fighting Tanks, Parsing the Importance of Passion, Boosting Organizations with Behavioral Science, 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 March 2021.
March 15th, 2021
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 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.
