One Size Doesn’t Have to Fit All
How to build behavioral interventions for individuals not averages.
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Making the Social Leap Bonus: An Evolutionary Metaphor for Leadership Today
Von Hippel puts forth an evolutionary metaphor for two very different types of leadership.
Making the Social Leap: A Conversation on How Our Psychology Evolved
How we conceive of behaviors like self-control, overconfidence, and happiness today bears little resemblance to their evolutionary origins, argues psychologist William von Hippel.
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Broadening the Nature of Behavioral Design
How might our sense about what we should solve, or even what qualifies as a problem worth solving, be biased by how we think about what we can solve?
Defaults Are Not the Same by Default
A new meta-analysis reveals when and where one of behavioral science’s most successful nudges works best (or not at all).
How Misinformation Can Spread Among Scientists
In the mid-19th century, Ignaz Semmelweis knew hand-washing could save lives. But he didn’t know a strong social network could thwart good evidence.