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The Ultimate Behavioral Science Playlist: Bias
By Aline Holzwarth Illustrations by Matt Trower We have joined together with other behavioral scientists to compile a playlist of over 5 hours of songs from a diverse range of genres that each, in…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / MAY 27 2020
Introducing the Ultimate Behavioral Science Playlist
By Aline Holzwarth Illustrations by Matt Trower Music can be therapeutic, and powerfully so. The late neurologist, naturalist and historian of science Oliver Sacks noted in his book Musicophilia a “deep and mysterious paradox,…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / MAY 22 2020
Breaking the Status Quo: Women who changed Science
(Image Credit: WABE.org) As March comes to close, we feel like it is appropriate to look back at Women’s History Month by celebrating influential women in the social sciences. It started in 1978 as…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Health / MARCH 30 2020
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Digital Health’s Secret Weapon: Behavioral Science
By Aline Holzwarth Article originally appeared in HealthTech magazine. Read the full article here. With the ubiquity of smartphones, and the fact that everyone (including your grandma) carries their devices with them everywhere, we also carry…
The Mbrella Calendar: Helping Kenyan Families Track Their Savings for Health Insurance
Mbrella is a charitable organization devoted to helping impoverished Kenyan families buy health insurance. Mbrella connects donors with Kenyan mothers and employs a number of behavioral interventions meant to help the mother gain enough…
Make plans, not resolutions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your new year’s resolution is very likely to fail. Most do. Resolutions are just not built to succeed. They rely on willpower, hoping…
Help us improve email
Dear friends, In thinking about how to improve email (something that gives us both joy and stress), I’d like to ask for your help. I’m trying to understand how people use email and what…