The versatile, unpredictable, and rapidly evolving nature of AI presents a challenge for regulators tasked with keeping us safe. How can behavioral scientists help?
For many people, recycling seems like the place where they can have the greatest impact on the waste stream. This misperception lets wasteful companies off the hook.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
In their book, Streets of Gold, Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan use big data to trace the stories of immigrants to the United States. Their findings are a call to revise many popular beliefs about U.S. immigration.
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 December 2020 and January 2021.
If things return to the way they were, we will have failed.
It’s little wonder that people would believe that higher taxes would make them feel bad. But this is a cognitive error, pure and simple.
In extraordinary times there is speculation to match. But what does science actually tell us about this political moment?
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science’s most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
