Most Read Articles of 2021
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
December 22nd, 2021
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December 01st, 2021
Research Lead: Mistaking Google’s Knowledge for Your Own, Oversimplifying Effects of Tech, Scientists ‘Donate’ a lot of Time to Journal Publishers, 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 November 2021.
How ‘Greedy Work,’ More than Bias, Explains the Persistent Gender Wage Gap
In a new book, economist Claudia Goldin finds that the gender wage gap is a symptom of a far greater problem, one that has largely been invisible.
September 13th, 2021
How Social Milieu Fosters the Impostor Phenomenon
Impostor feelings—that we are perpetually on the verge of being unmasked as not worthy—have traditionally been viewed as an individual affliction. New research locates it in a social milieu.
August 30th, 2021
How the Shift to Remote Work Could Impact People Differently Around the World
Does the rise in “work from anywhere” mean more “workcations”? Is it a lost opportunity for social mobility? We speak with a leading researcher about how work from anywhere is impacting people in places like the U.S. versus India, and why he’s bullish on a work-from-anywhere future for everyone.
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?
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 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.
February 22nd, 2021
Research Lead: Two Vaccine Megastudies, the Greta Effect, Psychology’s Global Blindspot, 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 February 2021.
December 14th, 2020
The Routines, Rituals, Products, and Apps that Helped Us Get Through 2020
To close out the year and look to the next, we decided to open up about some of the things that helped us get through it.
