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.
Emma Gibson seeks to improve patient care by helping facilities use their limited resources more effectively
Researchers at MIT Sloan have calculated the chances of catching coronavirus when aloft, though pandemic conditions keep shifting
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This 2019 MIT Sloan case by Zeynep Ton and Katie Bach describes how the executive team at Mud Bay, a privately held pet store chain based in Olympia, Washington, implemented a good jobs strategy by offering better wages and benefits and seeking to recoup the costs by increasing sales growth and lowe...
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