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Voicing Your Impacts
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At the MIT Sloan Women's Conference, alumnae learned practical strategies to push past self-doubt and unleash their unique contributions to the world.
Coordinating Climate Air Quality Policies to Improve Public Health
New MIT tool pinpoints policy combinations that maximize health benefits.
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.
The Right Way to Fight Fake News
Social media platforms need to make sure their anti-misinformation strategies are empirically grounded.
Is the Key to Successful Prosocial Nudges Reputation?
If warm glow is built to promote our reputation, then it should be triggered when we give.
Potential follow-up increases private contributions to public goods
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.
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.