SwatDeck, Diversity, and the Science of Networks
By bringing together four random students for an adventure in Philadelphia, could we rewire the social connections on our campus?
Society
The Healthy Society in Fifty Years
By 2065, I predict that we will have evolved societies that explicitly embrace values and goals for ensuring the wellbeing of every person.
The Nurture Effect: A Q&A with Anthony Biglan
In his new book, The Nurture Effect, Psychologist Anthony Biglan describes how interventions aimed at creating nurturing environments could help solve some of society’s most stubborn, harmful, and costly issues.
ideas42 Sets Out to Help End Poverty Through Behavioral Interventions
It’s well documented that the consequences of childhood poverty are immediate and long-lasting. By their first day in school, children in poverty score worse than their middle and upper class peers on nearly every developmental measure from language use to attention skills.
Clash: 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are
Why did UN-led aid efforts in Sudan have such catastrophic consequences and why were aid workers so slow to recognize their mistake?
Materially False: A Q&A with Tim Kasser about the Pursuit of the Good Life through Goods
As Madonna astutely noted in her 1984 song, we live in a material world.