Nudging the UK: A Conversation with David Halpern
The UK’s Behavioral Insights Team has generated a lot of attention around the world for using psychology to guide government spending. First, as skepticism, then as acclaim.
January 05th, 2014
the psych report
December 09th, 2013
Art: A Tail or a Song?
In his new book, The Aesthetic Brain, Anjan Chatterjee utilizes neuroscience and evolutionary psychology to explore three critical questions in the field of aesthetics: What is beauty? What is pleasure? What is art?
November 26th, 2013
Babies and the Science of Morality
In his new book, Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil, Yale psychologist Paul Bloom examines the concept of morality: its scope, its challenges, and what research into the moral lives of babies can reveal.
November 14th, 2013
Textbook of the Future?
College education is too expensive, and textbooks are part of the problem. This is the thinking that motivated two psychologists to create an online platform to provide up-to-date, fully-customizable text books, for free.
November 07th, 2013
New Report Links Psychologists and Medical Professionals to Detainee Abuse
A report published this week alleges U.S. military psychologists and medical professionals not only participated in, but also designed and facilitated, the torture and inhumane interrogation of U.S. military detainees.
October 16th, 2013
Q&A: Grit Psychologist Angela Duckworth Wins Genius Grant
We spoke with Angela Duckworth following the official announcement to talk about receiving the MacArthur award, her plans for the money, and what her lab is currently working on.
October 03rd, 2013
Can Government Help Citizens Spend “Happy Money”?
There’s a puzzle that’s plagued psychologists, economists, and policy makers for decades.
September 25th, 2013
Psychologist and Behavioral Economist awarded MacArthur Foundation ‘Genius Grants’
Angela Duckworth and Colin Camerer were two of the twenty-four MacArthur Fellowship recipients, announced yesterday by the MacArthur Foundation.
September 12th, 2013
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
In this exclusive excerpt of their new book Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explore the concept of scarcity: its ubiquity, its challenges, and its silver lining.
September 02nd, 2013
The Cognitive Burden of Poverty
Nobody is perfect. At times we have difficulty managing our finances, we don’t always take our medications as planned, and sometimes we don’t perform up to par at work.
