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.
This report by Fei Qin, an Associate Professor in Management at the University of Bath, and Thomas A. Kochan, the George M. Bunker Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, describes what the authors believe to be a state‐of‐the‐art learning system at IBM Corporation and traces the effects of...
MIT Sloan Center for Information Systems Research (CISR) helps executives meet the challenge of leading dynamic, global, and information-intensive organizations.
MIT Sloan faculty Keri Pearlson will lead a discussion on the latest thinking in building cybersecurity strategy and the role of leaders and managers in creating cyber-resilience.