A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: When your research participants are babies, there’s no such thing as a flawless experiment. Whether it’s tantrums or throw-up, researchers are forced to adapt their experiments on the fly. This variability and unpredictability, however, doesn’t make it to publication. In the latest issue […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: There’s some cognitive dissonance going on here: How can Donald Trump be everything people claim to despise in a politician—arrogant, rude, self-promoting—and still do so well in the polls? Stanford University Professor of Organizational Behavior Jeffrey Pfeffer explains. (Fortune) Image: Gage Skidmore According to […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: Image: Alan O’Rourke and WorkCompass.com Our constant influx of incoming messages, emails, and notifications deems us the busiest generation yet, right? According to the U.K.’s Centre for Time Use Research, this is only a myth. After comparing time diaries from the 1960’s to those of […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: If President Obama created a Council of Psychological Advisers to help develop policies and programs based on the latest psychological science what might they recommend? Twelve “Memos to the President,” published in the most recent issue of Perspectives on Psychological Science, provide a […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: A great deal of psychology research doesn’t replicate, but that doesn’t mean researchers don’t have a good sense for good science. When researchers at the Reproducibility Project brought together scientists to bet on which studies they thought would replicate, they did so with […]
A selection of recent behavioral science news, articles, and resources of note: When autographing his book, Nudge, Richard Thaler writes just three words: “Nudge for good.” Here’s why. (New York Times) The U.S. Military is bypassing Lumosity (which is, by the way, not supported by science) and going straight to implanting electrodes in people’s brains. […]
