Topics
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Business
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April 23, 2018How 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.
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March 5, 2018
Hourly Employees Need Reliable Schedules: Can Behavioral Science Help Companies Deliver?
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February 20, 2018
What the “Bias of Crowds” Phenomenon Means for Corporate Diversity Efforts
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Culture
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February 26, 2018Redefining Wrong in Poker, Politics, and Beyond
Blaming the oddsmakers or the odds themselves assumes that once something happens, it was bound to have happened and anyone who didn’t see it coming was wrong.
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February 13, 2018
Default to Love: A Collection of Behavioral Valentines
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February 12, 2018
Was 2017 the Worst Year Ever? It Depends on When You’re Asked
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Education
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January 22, 2018The Praise Paradox
Does praise actually raise children’s self-esteem and motivation? Research shows that it depends on how we phrase our praise.
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November 27, 2017
College Rankings Hinder Economic Equality
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Should High Schools Require a Post-Graduation Plan?
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Environment
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April 16, 2018No One’s Perfect: How to Advocate for Climate Conservation Anyway
The advice to “conserve energy” can backfire. What’s a better way to communicate about climate change?
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August 24, 2017
Using Behavioral Science to Redesign the Built Environment
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May 2, 2016
Are Nudges Good? Prove It!
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Government
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March 20, 2018How to Increase (and Sustain) Political Engagement
How can we sustain political engagement over a lifetime?
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March 13, 2018
Lessons from Building a Behavioral Science Initiative in City Government
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December 1, 2017
The Tax Bill Avoids this Planning Fallacy (for Now)
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Health
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March 27, 2018The Happiness Boomerang Effect: When Positive Activities Backfire
Why do seemingly positive activities have negative consequences?
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March 20, 2018
How and Why Positive Activities Can Make You Happier
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January 30, 2018
Can “Nudge Units” Help Build Better Health Systems?
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History
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August 3, 2017The Long and Winding Road: 125 years of the American Psychological Association
The road to APA’s 125th year was not a straightforward march of like-minded professionals towards a common goal.
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July 24, 2017
Barry Schwartz: The Idea that Shaped My Career
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July 12, 2017
A Conversation with Malcolm Gladwell: Revisiting Brown v. Board
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Law
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February 26, 2018Improving the Summons Process in New York City
The current system of court summons strains everyone involved. There’s another way to approach the problem.
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August 10, 2017
Cass Sunstein: Picking vs. Choosing
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February 8, 2016
Stereotype Threat in Police Encounters: Implications for Miscarriages of Justice
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Science
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April 10, 2018War for Peace Among Wild Chimpanzees
Chimpanzees who injure or kill one another are not immoral. Their violence is simply a means to reach an end.
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April 3, 2018
The Key to Creating Cost-Effective Experiments at Scale
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February 12, 2018
Everything Is Timing
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Society
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April 16, 2018Could the #MeToo Movement Inadvertently Lead to More Sexual Harassment?
Will highlighting the large number of women who have been sexually harassed—and therefore the many men who have harassed women—lead men to believe that harassing behavior is widespread and therefore acceptable?
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March 27, 2018
Should You Broadcast Your Charitable Side?
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March 5, 2018
I Think, Therefore I Am—Generous?
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Technology
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April 23, 2018What’s True, and Fake, About the Facebook Effect
Is Facebook responsible for what people think and feel about politics?
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April 10, 2018
The Road to Cybersecurity Is Paved With “Extraordinarily Basic Things”
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April 3, 2018
The Real Reason You Shouldn’t Text While Driving
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