Rank and response: A field experiment on peer information and water use behavior
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Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
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Perception of peer rank, or how we perform relative to our peers, can be a powerful motivator.
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Social norms messaging campaigns are increasingly used to influence human behavior, with social science research generally finding that they have modest but meaningful effects.
A new review paper from MIT health economist Joseph Doyle finds, the overall impact of information technology on health care has been evolutionary, not revolutionary.
Leadership combines the confidence to confront big challenges with the humility to know you can’t solve them alone. This is the driving concept behind the MIT Leadership Center—because the future demands it.
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.
Examining how people and businesses work, interact, and prosper.
How Far Could Pension Funds Drive Sustainable Investing?
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day.
Millennials are jumping into the stock market in greater numbers
The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser