To Make Cash Transfers Go Further, Customize for the Context
Cash-transfer programs have already been proven to alleviate poverty. With behaviorally informed customization, their positive impact can go even further.
Cash-transfer programs have already been proven to alleviate poverty. With behaviorally informed customization, their positive impact can go even further.
Awe, as in the chill-up-the-spine you might find in a poem, symphony, mountaintop, spiritual experience, or selfless act. In clever and imaginative ways, Keltner has researched what awe is and how it moves us.
The more we have on our minds the harder it becomes to do less. But there’s hope.
Economist Elinor Ostrom believed in the power of economics to “bring out the best in humans.” The way to do it, she thought, was to help them build community.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our highlights from 2022.
In The Power of Regret, author Daniel Pink offers readers a glimpse into the psychology of those moments that we often wish we had back.
More and more students feel isolated and that they don’t belong in college, a trend fueled by the pandemic era move to remote learning. But while technology has been part of the problem, it can also be part of the solution.
Our list of noteworthy behavioral science books published in 2022.
While important in the short term, the power of the market and technology alone will not save us in the long term. In the long term, we will have to change the way we think.