The Right Way to Fight Fake News
Social media platforms need to make sure their anti-misinformation strategies are empirically grounded.
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.
The LFE is actively involved in research that aims to identify methods for measuring and managing risk, both standard and systemic types of risk.
The LFE’s healthcare finance initiative explores new business models and financial vehicles for raising and deploying funds to support biomedical innovation.
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