Publications

Publications

How One Incubator Is Using Behavioral Science to Encourage the Products Customers Really Want

Sep 17 2015
Published in: Entrepreneur
Keywords: Startup Lab

Most incubators focus on the logistics of developing a necessary product, cultivating…

How This Famous Behavioral Economist Is Trying to Help People Solve Their Most Common Money Problems

Sep 17 2015
Published in: Entrepreneur
Keywords: Money

Qapital is a saving service, but it's also a lifestyle app. The…

The MR2: A multi-racial, mega-resolution database of facial stimuli

Aug 27 2015
Published in: Behavior research methods
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Faces impart exhaustive information about their bearers, and are widely used as…

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WATCH: A Film Celebrating Time, Timeful & Duke University’s Dan Ariely

Aug 20 2015
Published in: ExitEvent
Keywords: Money

Here in Durham, Dan Ariely is a well-known behavioral psychology professor and…

Motivated employee blindness: The impact of labor market instability on judgment of organizational inefficiencies

Jul 13 2015
Published in: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
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While employees might be expected to be especially vigilant to problems within…

Fairness requires deliberation: The primacy of economic over social considerations

Jun 8 2015
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology
Keywords: Morality, And More!

While both economic and social considerations of fairness and equity play an…

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Losses as ecological guides: Minor losses lead to maximization and not to avoidance

Mar 19 2015
Published in: Cognition
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Losses are commonly thought to result in a neuropsychological avoidance response. We…

Robot Presence and Human Honesty: Experimental Evidence. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Mar 2 2015
Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Keywords: Morality, And More!

Robots are predicted to serve in environments in which human honesty is…

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The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: The appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies

Mar 1 2015
Published in: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
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We propose that people may gain certain "offensive" and "defensive" advantages for…

False Advertising: the attractiveness of religion as a moral brand, In J. van Slyke and J. Slone (eds.)

Jan 1 2015
Published in: Religion and Sexual Selection: The Attraction of Religion
Keywords: Morality, And More!

Religions (as such) do not promote morality. They appear to do so…

A Structured Approach to a Diagnostic of Collective Practices

Dec 14 2014
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology
Keywords: Morality, And More!

"How social norms change" is not only a theoretical question but also…

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Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations

Dec 1 2014
Published in: Journal of Marketing Research
Keywords: Morality, And More!

We propose a new means by which non-profits can induce donors to…

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