Feeling helpless about the US election?
Here are some simple strategies from the behavioral scientist’s toolbox that you can use to get out the vote in your social circle.
Here are some simple strategies from the behavioral scientist’s toolbox that you can use to get out the vote in your social circle.
Social media platforms need to make sure their anti-misinformation strategies are empirically grounded.
If warm glow is built to promote our reputation, then it should be triggered when we give.
How can we increase contributions to public goods—to get donors to give more to charity, citizens to vote, households to consume less energy, drivers to carpool, and patients to take all of their antibiotics? One of the best ways is to make contributions more observable.
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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.
The resurgence of tuberculosis is behavioral, not medical. Nudges can fix it – Erez Yoeli, David Rand, and Jon Rathauser
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