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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.
Isolating the effect of injunctive norms on conservation behavior: New evidence from a field experiment in California
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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.
Alumnae Address Big Topics at Social Media Summit
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Natalia Levina, PhD ’01, and Rumman Chowdhury, SB ’03, spoke at the second annual Social Media Summit@MIT, a virtual gathering hosted by the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, in late March.
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