Announcing applications for 2017 CommonCents partners

…a financial research lab at Duke University that creates and tests interventions to help low-to-moderate income households increase their financial well-being. Common Cents leverages research gleaned from behavioral economics to…

Translating Good Intentions Into Actions

By Kristen Berman, Wendy De La Rosa and Dan Ariely – Common Cents Lab, Duke University According to recent research, 57 percent of American adults say they are struggling financially….

Do Financial Bonuses Result in Enhanced Productivity?

Reducing the Pain of Exercise

Research Insights on Titles for Health Coaches

…that the term seemed less professional than “specialist” or “advisor,” which they preferred. These terms were also well liked by commercially insured participants. While preferences for different terms may not…

Just Launched: Financial coaching app infused with behavioral science principles

…investment funds, while the second – a more advanced description with complex terminology. The participants were then asked how likely they would be to invest in each fund. Those given…

Birds of a feather don’t just flock together. They also influence each other’s behavior.

…best thing going for social norms is that (unlike some short-term incentives or nudges), social norm interventions can lead to more long-term results. And it makes sense that social norms…

Resources to fight racism

…moment of global uprising, we stopped our usual work to invest our time and attention to ending anti-Black racism. We used this time to reexamine our research and cultural practices…

Introducing Common Cents Lab Global

Introduction Throughout this year (2020), the Common Cents Lab has been working on the expansion of our applied behavioral research approach to improve the financial health of low- to moderate-…