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Advanced Hindsight Principal Aline Holzwarth Joins The Behavioral Design Podcast

  We are excited to announce that Aline Holzwarth will be joining the Behavioral Design podcast as a co-host! Aline will be joining Samuel Salzer, a behavioral strategist and habit…

Are Wii U Prices Manipulating Shoppers’ Psychology?

[youtube=http://youtu.be/0YFstA3fqh0] The pricing structure of Nintendo’s Wii U could manipulate shopper psychology via the decoy effect (see here and here here for more on the effect). The Wii U is…

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Rachael Meleney: Dance and Decision Paralysis

…Patience is the worst…but only because I don’t have it. Which BE related words or phrases do you most overuse? Decision paralysis, because I know it all too well (do…

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Stealing Books

…of the “Most Frequently Stolen Books.” Unsurprisingly to a Behavioral Economist, this tactic was not helpful. Porter Square Books may actually have been encouraging the behavior by drawing attention to…a…

Introducing the Ultimate Behavioral Science Playlist

…us to believe. And what better metaphor is there for the harmony of humanity than the melodies of music? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said it best when he noted that music…