War 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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The Key to Creating Cost-Effective Experiments at Scale
How can we build large-scale, cost-effective experiments that people want to participate in?
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.
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Betsy Levy Paluck Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Betsy Levy Paluck, a psychologist at Princeton University, was named a 2017 MacArthur Fellow.
We’re All Behavioral Economists Now
In the mid-60s, Chicago economist Milton Friedman coined the phrase “We’re all Keynesians now.” Half a century later, we might say instead: “We’re all behavioral economists now.”
Richard Thaler Wins Nobel Prize in Economics
Richard Thaler, an economist at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, is this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economics.