Topics
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Business
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September 24, 2024The Quest to Imagine a Workplace that (Actually) Values Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is about making trade-offs. How might we design workplaces that encourage employees to choose the right ones?
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September 17, 2024
Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
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June 25, 2024
Is Everything BS?
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Culture
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September 24, 2024What It’s Like to Be…a Life Insurance Salesman
Overcoming “soft objections,” hustling to line up meetings, and navigating the line between business and friendship with David Johnson, a third-generation life insurance salesman.
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September 14, 2024
What It’s Like to Be…a Camera Operator
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August 28, 2024
What It’s Like to Be…a Long-Haul Truck Driver
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Editorial Board
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December 19, 2018Editors’ Picks for 2018: Captivating Behavioral Science Pieces
Some of our favorite behavioral science reads from 2018.
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Most Popular Articles of 2018
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August 7, 2018
Summer Reading: Five Articles Still on Our Minds
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Education
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September 18, 2023What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History?
Teenagers get bored about a lot, but boredom is not a given. When it comes to engaging with difficult topics, it’s worth asking: Whose interests does boredom serve? What does it help people avoid?
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June 26, 2023
How Leaders in Higher Education Can Embed Behavioral Science in Their Institutions
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December 12, 2022
The Biggest Challenges Facing Higher Education Are Those of Student Belonging. EdTech Can Help.
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Environment
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March 25, 2024Waste Waste… Don’t Tell Me: Investigating the Bias Toward Recycling Over Reduction and Reuse
For many people, recycling seems like the place where they can have the greatest impact on the waste stream. This misperception lets wasteful companies off the hook.
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June 19, 2023
Encourage Plant-Based Diets with Choice Architecture, Not Bans or Marketing Stunts
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January 30, 2023
To Make Progress on Climate Action, Pop ‘Normative Bubbles’
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Government
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September 2, 2024For Decades, a Behavioral Blind Spot Has Plagued Political Development
Attempts to improve governance in the world’s most troubled states have failed because they’ve been based on the rational design of formal institutions rather than the behavioral logic of the individuals that work inside them.
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May 8, 2023
An Extraordinary Story for the U.S. Supreme Court, an Ordinary One for Human Psychology
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October 10, 2022
How a Sludge-Filled Policy Stoked Uncertainty and Fear for Immigrant Families
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Health
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September 24, 2024
The Quest to Imagine a Workplace that (Actually) Values Work-Life Balance
Work-life balance is about making trade-offs. How might we design workplaces that encourage employees to choose the right ones?
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June 12, 2023
The Time Traveling Mistake We Make When We Procrastinate
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February 6, 2023
Doing Less Is Hard, Especially When We’re Overwhelmed
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History
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September 18, 2023
What Does Boredom Teach Us About How We Engage with History?
Teenagers get bored about a lot, but boredom is not a given. When it comes to engaging with difficult topics, it’s worth asking: Whose interests does boredom serve? What does it help people avoid?
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September 4, 2023
The Surprising Origins of Our Obsession with Creativity
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December 1, 2022
A New Look at the History of U.S. Immigration: A Conversation with Ran Abramitzky
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Law
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May 18, 2022Behavioral Jurisprudence: Law Needs a Behavioral Revolution
There is now a large body of empirical work that calls into question the traditional legal assumptions about how law shapes behavior.
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July 31, 2018
Designing to Avoid “Ordinary Unethicality”: A Q&A with Yuval Feldman
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February 26, 2018
Improving the Summons Process in New York City
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Science
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September 2, 2024One Small Step, One Giant Heave
On Earth, what goes up must come down. In zero-g, what comes up, floats.
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August 26, 2024
What the Founding of Behavioral Economics Teaches Us About How to Create a Meaningful Movement
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August 22, 2024
Social Science, Ideology, Culture, & History
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Society
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October 7, 2024Instead of Being Cynical, Try Becoming Skeptical
Cynicism and skepticism are often confused for each other, but they couldn’t be more different.
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When It All Became Apparent
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September 18, 2024
The Questions at the Heart of Conflict and Peace
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Technology
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September 17, 2024Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
There are things we need to deliberately and consciously slow down for our own sanity and for our own productivity. If we don’t ask the question about what those things are, we might get things terribly, terribly wrong.
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July 24, 2024
Announcing Techno-Visions: A Summer Book Club by Behavioral Scientist
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May 21, 2024
How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms
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