The Real Reason You Shouldn’t Text While Driving
Everyone knows that texting and driving is a terrible idea, but few understand why. Taking your eyes off the road has obvious disadvantages. But the real story behind the danger of texting …
What If We Thought of Our Daily Commute as a Team Sport?
5 days ago · By better understanding the psychological factors influencing how we see ourselves and others while driving, we can develop solutions that facilitate safe and cooperative behavior …
When Everything Falls Apart, Can Communities Come Together?
Oct 17, 2024 · Despite narratives of panic and chaos after disaster, of looting and taking advantage of others while they’re vulnerable, one of the most robust findings in the social …
Vaccinating in Taliban Country - by Sherine Guirguis and Michael ...
Dec 6, 2024 · It was a lesson that occurred while navigating a particularly challenging set of circumstances—how to deliver polio vaccines to children in remote areas of Pakistan under …
When It All Became Apparent - by Ariel Kalil, Susan E. Mayer, and ...
Oct 7, 2024 · The idea of parenting styles is far-reaching but built on sparse evidence. A team of scientists have turned to parenting behaviors, rather than styles, to discover what matters …
Print Edition #2 — Brain Meets World - Behavioral Scientist
Through prose, poetry, historical archives, and art, Brain Meets World takes readers on a hero’s journey of ideas. Across seven chapters (161 pages), articles authored by leading behavioral …
Research Lead: Groups Are Only As Smart as Their Cockiest …
May 24, 2021 · Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, television, and the like are definitely rotting the youths’ brains, right? While that hyperbolic claim is too close to the front lines in the millennial …
Ed Bradon, Columnist at Behavioral Scientist
Ed Bradon. Ed Bradon is a director at the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT), based in London. He leads a cluster of teams working to apply behavioral science to education, technology, justice …
Good Habits, Bad Habits: A Conversation with Wendy Wood
Oct 14, 2019 · Habits are a learning mechanism. All we have to do is repeat something and get rewarded for it, and we’re learning a habit. In research that I’ve done, we find that about 43 …
What It’s Like to Be…a Long-Haul Truck Driver - Behavioral Scientist
Aug 28, 2024 · Dan Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University’s Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship. He is the coauthor (along with his brother, Chip) of four books, …