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How Behavioral Science Can Promote Hand-washing Behavior
With urban migration on the rise, cities are not only facing an increased influx of people, but they also have to find solutions to many of its consequences: lack of infrastructure, housing shortage and…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, World / OCTOBER 10 2018
Be a Good Friend, Channel Your Inner-Child
As a parent and a therapist, I hear a LOT about people’s social lives and close relationships. People (adults and kids) talk about their peer relationships much more than anything else, because our lives…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / SEPTEMBER 12 2018
Best-Laid Plans of Potential Donors: Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap
If we were to reflect on how much we donated in the past, some of us would admit that we could have given more. At the same time we might claim that we intended…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, World, Motivation / JUNE 29 2018
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Best-Laid Plans of Potential Donors: Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap
If we were to reflect on how much we donated in the past, some of us would admit that we could have given more. At the same time we might claim that we intended…
Why Do We Waste so Much Food?
Cleaning out my refrigerator this week was not pretty. I found moldy leftovers, celery that had lost its snap, and cucumbers starting to liquify. Not only was it gross, but I felt really guilty…
Twitter-vention: What Behavioral Science Says About Impulse Tweeting
Are you too impulsive for your own good? Do you frequently find yourself angrily tweeting at 2am, posting things you later regret enough to erase? You may want to log out of Twitter and…
Using Social Norms to Increase Donations
Research conducted with: Ting Jiang, Judd B. Kessler, Greg Segal, Dan Ariely If you are like most people, there is a good chance your behavior is based on what you think others are doing….