Haven’t Finished Your Taxes? Planning Prompts Help Turn Intention into Action
With Tax day less than two weeks away, my guess is that you fall into one of two camps.
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The Comfort of Conspiracy: Finding Meaning in Free Masons, Shadow Governments, and the Illuminati
We feel that we can trust you with an important secret: There is a secret group controlling the highest reaches of government, including the Federal Aviation Administration.
Is Charitable Giving a Beauty Contest?
Empowering charitable lenders to pick and choose projects to support may result in discrimination based on physical characteristics such as attractiveness, weight, and skin color.
How Do We Solve the Last Mile?
Some of society’s stickiest problems aren’t a failure of intention, importance, or value. They’re the result of a failure to understand human behavior at the last mile—the final stage where desires and plans must turn into action.
It’s Not a Lack of Self-Control that Keeps People Poor
When considering poverty, our national conversation tends to overlook systemic causes. Instead, we often blame the poor for their poverty.
Psychology’s Largest Replication Effort Reveals Low Rates of Reproducibility
During the past three years, 270 researchers from around the world recreated 98 psychology studies from three top journals to see if they could produce the same results.