How Policy Informed by Behavioral Science Can Help Children in Poverty
A new study explores whether using behavioral principles to distribute a basic income can more effectively combat child poverty.
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Try to Resist Misinterpreting the Marshmallow Test
How some are getting a new study of self-control wrong.
Your Brain Is Neither Computer Nor CEO
The ways we typically talk about the brain lead to a neuro-mythology, one that fails to either advance public understanding or meaningfully answer how the brain and mind work.
Understanding the Biological Mind
We’ve been here before. What are the consequences of imbuing brains with a special mystique?
Adam Grant: Understanding People Who Aren’t Like You
What insight from behavioral science has most changed how Adam Grant views others?
Freeing Econ 101: Beyond the Grasp of the Invisible Hand
Economists have widely embraced the behavioral-economics revolution, but their textbooks have not. The “standard model” continues to dominate Econ 101 and introduce new generations to a neoclassical fantasyland.