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Science and Faith: Behavioral Insights for Religious Communities during COVID-19
By: Samir Gangolli, Dan Rosica, and Joseph Sherlock Background This fall, the Center for Advanced Hindsight (CAH) at Duke University partnered with five North Carolina Counties–Cabarrus, Catawba, Gaston, Haywood, and Union–and the North Carolina…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Government / DECEMBER 10 2020
The Center Partners with NC State College of Design to Help Local Governments Navigate COVID-19
By Dan Rosica The Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University has partnered with the NC State College of Design and five North Carolina counties to form a multidisciplinary collaboration aiming to use behavioral…
Government / OCTOBER 13 2020
Our Best Behavioral Wishes to the United Nations on its 75th Anniversary
By Anson Tong, Liz Tracy, and Joseph Sherlock On September 21, today, the United Nations is celebrating its 75th anniversary with the theme of “The Future We Want, the UN We Need: Reaffirming our…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Government / SEPTEMBER 21 2020
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A how-to guide for setting better goals
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth We often hold vague notions about what we want to do for our health. You might say you want to exercise more,…
Predicting Game: Global Health Part 2
Last month, we asked you to guess whether a storytelling calendar led to greater savings on the M-Tiba platform* than a control calendar (see last month’s post here). We were impressed with your foresight: 75% of…
Helping People Save with Privacy and Transparency
As a choice architect, how would you encourage salient saving and discourage conspicuous consumption? See what Dan and Aline have to say in their paper on the choice architecture of privacy decision-making, hot off…
Increasing Health Savings by Using Anchors
The World Health Organization estimated that over 150,000 Kenyan children died from preventable causes in 2011 alone. One reason is that people simply cannot afford to get treatment for themselves or their children, particularly…