Embrace Complexity Through Behavioral Planning
Behavioral science is still learning how to grapple with complexity. What does it lose when it overlooks complexity and what it could gain addressing it in a more strategic way?
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Research Lead: How to Counterargue Using Mass Communications, Conspiracy Clout, the Cost-Benefit Fallacy, and More
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for October 2021.
Building the Behavior Change Toolkit: Designing and Testing a Nudge and a Boost
While nudges and boosts can look similar in practice, their theoretical distinctions are important and useful for those building interventions.
Why You Should Always Switch: The Monty Hall Problem (Finally) Explained
The infamous problem even professors and mathematicians got wrong comes down to one unintuitive inference—in the Monty Hall problem, Monty Hall is God.
Five Takeaways from Our Conversation with Richard Thaler about the Past, Present, and Future of Nudge
Richard Thaler corrects the record on organ donation, reveals why he wished the original subtitle included the phrase “choice architecture,” his thoughts on replication in behavioral economics, and what advice he’d give organizations looking to apply behavioral science.
Research Lead: Humans—the Rationalizing Animal, Situational Selfishness, Assessing “Nudgeability”, L’eggo My Ego-Depletion, and More
The Research Lead is a monthly digest connecting you to noteworthy academic and applied research from around the behavioral sciences. Here are our picks for September 2021.