Designing Transport for Humans, Not Econs
It’s common to hear that transport providers are “simply getting people from A to B”: a low-bar ambition that misses the real purpose of much travel.
November 16th, 2021
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October 18th, 2021
How Netflix’s Choice Engine Drives Its Business
Netflix’s landing page is full of choice architecture tools—plausible paths, smart defaults, and carefully curated descriptions. But it doesn’t do all of the work itself. The platform takes cues from you, too.
May 24th, 2021
India’s Digital Samaritans: Can Social Media Be a Force for Good?
The prevailing public and media narrative about social media has often focused on the negatives. Yet social media platforms have proved crucial during India’s COVID-19 crisis. Here’s how we can make sense of it all.
May 17th, 2021
“Just Following Orders” Doesn’t Let You Off the Hook Psychologically
How does our level of agency over a decision influence how culpable we feel, when that decision leads to death?
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.
March 22nd, 2021
Exploring the Links Between Autism and Invention
Scott Barry Kaufman speaks with Simon Baron-Cohen about Baron-Cohen’s new book, The Pattern Seekers, which makes the case that the same genes that give rise to autism are and have been crucial to humanity’s propensity to invent and innovate.
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.
February 08th, 2021
“Your Ideas Are Not Your Identity”: Adam Grant on How to Get Better at Changing Your Mind
In his latest book, “Think Again”, Adam Grant investigates why we struggle to update our ideas and opinions and how we can get better at it.
Mastering Modern Love: Logan Ury on Building Better Relationships through Behavioral Science
Dating in the twenty-first century isn’t easy. Logan Ury, head of relationship science at Hinge, is here to help. She’s written a new book on how behavioral science can help you find and keep love.
