Photo: Brittany Randolph n his new book The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World, Psychologist Anthony Biglan, a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute, describes how interventions aimed at creating nurturing environments could help solve some of society’s most stubborn, harmful, and costly issues. Crime, […]
Image: NPR What is it like to go through each day imagining stabbing an innocent person? Your wife? “My wife is cutting carrots for a salad. Boom! What if I grabbed the knife and I were to stab her?” That’s the predicament of S (full name not revealed). His story features in the first episode […]
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Google’s Senior Vice President of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, delivers the opening speech “Changing the Nature of Work,” at Google’s re:Work event earlier this fall. Photo: Google oogle is known for its innovative HR practices and office culture, most notably expressed through the array of perks the company provides its employees. Think all-you-can-eat gourmet food, ergonomic […]
[Social Psychology] uch is known about about how stereotype threat — the fear of behaving in a way which confirms a negative stereotype about one’s social group — undermines performance for a particular group in a particular situation, women and math for instance. Much less is known, however, about how stereotypes might threaten individuals over time […]
On a spring night in 1989, a 28 year-old white woman was brutally raped and nearly murdered while jogging through Central Park. Early in their investigation, police brought in five black and hispanic teenage boys between the ages of 14 and 16 for questioning. During interrogations lasting up to 30 hours, all five confessed to taking part in the crime. Within 72 hours of the attack, the jogger still in a coma, the NYPD believed they had solved the crime […]
