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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…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Technology, Self-Control / MARCH 9 2018
7 Pieces Highlighting the Potential Intersections of Machine Learning, AI, and Robotics with Behavioral Economics
The intersections of behavioral economics and increasingly popular fields and disciplines in technology, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics, are still in their relative infancy. These seven articles, papers, and videos present…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Technology / NOVEMBER 3 2017
Retiremap Launches First Platform Combining Human Coaching and Robo-Advisory to Improve Financial Wellness
Top plan advisory firm Channel Financial commits to new one-to-one financial coaching platform designed with behavioral insights from Common Cents Lab San Ramon, Calif. – June 8, 2017 – Research-backed employee financial wellness company…
Common Cents Lab, Technology, Financial Decision-making Aided by Technology / JULY 8 2017
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The Ultimate Behavioral Science Playlist: Appeal
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…
Digit Launches New Tax Feature to Automate Refund Savings
This tax season Digit simplifies saving refunds worth $125 billion SAN FRANCISCO, February 11, 2016 – Digit <https://digit.co>, the popular automated savings tool, in collaboration with CommonCents Lab, the financial decision making lab funded…
Be Happy! The Super Bowl Blackout was a Collectable Experience
Collectable experiences are defined as unique, unusual, novel, or extreme experiences. Instead of viewing the Super Bowl blackout of 2013 as a frustrating experience, view it as a “collectable experience” and you will enjoy…
Resources to fight racism
By Catherine Berman, Matt Trower & Aline Holzwarth On June 10, 2020, our lab joined the campaign to #ShutDownAcademia, #ShutDownSTEM, #Strike4BlackLives, and reinvigorate our collective commitment to anti-racism. In this moment of global uprising,…