Give More Feedback—Others Want It More Than You Think
人们犹豫to give feedback because they simply don’t recognize how much other people want to hear it.
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Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Tracing the Story of Psychological Targeting on Social Media
A rigorous assessment of whether psychological targeting on social media can influence our behavior has remained elusive. Until recently.
The Real Opportunities for Empowering People through Behavioral Science
There’s much to be gained by broadening out from designing choice architecture with little input from those who use it. But we need to change the way we talk about the options.
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The Hardest Decisions Mothers Make: On Sons and Soccer, Growing Up and Leaving Home
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The AtlanticWhy the Definition of Design Might Need a Change
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MIT Technology ReviewWhat Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?
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The New YorkerHow Fast Is Eliud Kipchoge? This Is What Happens When Mere Mortals Try to Keep His Pace.
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The New York TimesPeru’s Great Urban Experiment
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It’s a Bouba, Not a Kiki: The Relationship Between Sound, Form, and Meaning
We don’t assume that we can understand the meaning of words based on their sound alone. But a long history of research in psycholinguistics hints that we’re better at it than we might think.
Rewiring Organizations for Behavioral Science
If behavioral science is baked into the core structures of the organization, then it will continue to produce benefits, regardless of the leadership’s decorative preferences.
Let’s Talk Less About ‘Irrationality’
The term “irrationality” may encourage overconfidence that prevents behavioral scientists from looking more deeply into what’s driving behavior.
What We Gain from More Behavioral Science in the Global South
More work in the Global South means more opportunities to learn to address the systems-level challenges that often lie at the root of our most pressing problems.
The Psychology of Overhead Aversion—and What It Means for Charitable Work
Why are people so averse to paying charities’ overhead costs? What could knowing more about overhead aversion mean for successful fundraising? We conducted an experiment to find out.
心理学’s Increased Rigor Is Good News. But Is It Only Good News?
We should have greater confidence than before that findings we read about in journals will replicate. What’s good about this is evident. But do we pay a price for increased rigor?
The Magic of Knowing When to Use Concrete vs. Abstract Language
When trying to make language either more concrete or more abstract, one helpful approach is to focus on either the how or the why.
Three Tensions Behavioral Design Must Navigate
Design’s development from buzzy hotshot to established practice offers insight into the path behavioral design could take and the choices it will face along the way.
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