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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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Helping Families Save for College
By Stephanie Tepper and Joseph Sherlock This year, the Common Cents Lab at CAH is partnering with two Children’s Savings Account (CSA) programs in the U.S. With our first experiment finished and several more…
Dan’s Hike, Part 2: Natural Benefits
By: Stephanie Tepper There is no shortage of research heralding the restorative psychological benefits of spending time in nature, a fact that is certainly not lost on Dan. As he enters the third…
Interested in Participating in Startup Lab? Learn More About the Program!
The Startup Lab is a CAH initiative to apply behavioral economics to startups in the health and finance domains through the application of existing research findings, as well as conducting original research projects. The…
The Behavioral Economics of Eating Animals
Throughout my life, I have loved eating meat, but my two best friends at Duke are vegetarians, and because of them I was persuaded to read Eating Animals by one of my favorite contemporary authors,…