Creating Citizen Choice Architects
What would it mean to empower people—citizen choice architects—to design their own decision environments?
Science
Research Lead: Parliamentarians on Twitter, Replicating the Door in the Face Technique, Gender Gaps in Psychology, 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 2020.
The Future of Behavioral Insights Demands Human-Centered Design
The behavioral insights approach to design has often been top-down. A priority moving forward should be to incorporate more reflexive, dynamic, and nuanced forms of behavioral change. One promising way of doing so is to adapt principles from human centered design.
How Fraud and a Broken Publishing System Fueled the Vaccine-Autism Myth
You likely know that the study behind the vaccine-autism myth was discredited. What you might not know, however, are the ways the study was fraudulent from the start and how the scientific publishing process failed the public.
The Benefits of Statistical Noise
Statistical noise is nearly universally considered an impediment to sound decision-making. But what seems like noise to those shaping the rules may actually be critically important to those on the receiving end.
Research Lead: Hypocrisy, Soccer’s Geisterspiele, the Causation Taboo, Reasons to Doubt Anti-Bias Parenting Advice, 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 August 2020.