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.
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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.
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The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser
Misinformation can amplify humanities greatest challenges. Read about what we are learning about fighting COVID-19 misinformation online.
MIT Sloan Health Systems Initiative Applies Analytics to the Opioid Crisis: Research reflects focus on innovating and implementing systemic health care solutions
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In a new book about the history of Kendall Square from the MIT Press, author Robert Buderi chronicles the area's biggest successes in innovation.