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Common Cents Report: Behavioral Interventions Helping Americans Save More
New report one of the most significant applications of behavioral economics in field of LMI financial decision-making San Francisco and Durham, NC – Feb. 8, 2017 – Common Cents, a financial research lab at…
Common Cents Lab, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / FEBRUARY 8 2017
Creating short-term saving opportunities: Goals, Taxes, and 5-Weekends
Join our behavioral experts for a riveting conversation on how to start and increase short-term savings for middle Americans effectively. In this session, we will share results from a couple field studies with fin-tech…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Common Cents Lab, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / NOVEMBER 1 2016
Creating a Long Term Mindset: A Simple Intervention to Increase Retirement Savings
Field and lab studies suggest that the way people think about their income can have a big impact on the way they spend and save money. This is particularly important because often it is…
Common Cents Lab, Increase Short- and Long-term Savings / NOVEMBER 1 2016
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Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab
Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke is now accepting applications for its second cohort of the Startup Lab, which begins October 2016. Health and…
Saving By Spending
This week, I visited a camera store to order two enlarged prints as a gift. I don’t order photo prints very often; in fact, I’m not sure that I have ever ordered prints aside…
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…
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…