Want to Debias Hiring? Change What Hiring Managers Focus On
Research on the “decoy effect” reveals one way bias sneaks into hiring decisions. It also suggests a solution.
May 22nd, 2018
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April 30th, 2018
Racism in Customer Service
To date, researchers have primarily focused on discrimination as a binary outcome: It happened or it did not. But customer service is complex and nuanced.
April 23rd, 2018
How to Identify Talent: Five Lessons from the NFL Draft
If there is one consistent yet underappreciated principle for making good hires, it’s that process beats technology.
March 05th, 2018
Hourly Employees Need Reliable Schedules: Can Behavioral Science Help Companies Deliver?
A quick look into the lives of hourly workers (almost 60 percent of the workforce) reveals that there is a lot of financial unhappiness buried in people’s work schedule.
February 20th, 2018
What the “Bias of Crowds” Phenomenon Means for Corporate Diversity Efforts
Despite widespread recognition that diversity in the workplace yields tangible benefits, the long-promised diversity revolution has stalled.
February 12th, 2018
Everything Is Timing
We are temporal creatures. We live in a temporal environment—we’re always moving through time. Being awake to those forces can help us work smarter and live better.
January 15th, 2018
The Potential for Human-Computer Interaction and Behavioral Science
Understanding human behavior is essential for designing human-computer interfaces. But there’s more to it than that: Understanding how people interact with computer interfaces can help us understand human behavior in general.
January 08th, 2018
Resistance Is Futile: Embracing the Era of the Augmented Worker
The prospect of A.I.-augmented workers is both promising and unsettling: How can employees and firms ensure that they get the benefits of A.I. without erasing uniquely human strengths?
January 01st, 2018
Who’s Your Real Boss?
What are the consequences of digital distraction and how can we minimize them?
December 04th, 2017
Do You See What I See? The Importance of Men as Allies
Men are more effective at combating sexism, and they and incur fewer costs for it than women. Why don’t they speak up?
