About the MIT Climate Policy Center
The Climate Policy Center will connect current and future climate research to policy, measuring the impact and implications of a variety of technologies on the climate system as a whole.
The Climate Policy Center will connect current and future climate research to policy, measuring the impact and implications of a variety of technologies on the climate system as a whole.
Getting people to adopt behaviors that increase energy conservation and reduce costs for the environment requires a multipronged approach.
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.