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Living in a Post-Kahneman World
Imagine sitting in a laboratory with your brain connected to a computer. You’re in a rigid chair, waiting patiently, when a scientist walks into the room and offers you a deal. “In just a few...
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The Darwin Economy
Last year, in his comedy special Bare, the Australian comedian Jim Jefferies riffed on gun control and the burden of unregulated behaviors that harm other people. If you’re a responsible gun owner and...
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Using Science to Make Government Work Better
On September 15th, President Obama issued an executive order that acknowledges something we have known for a long time: Human beings are not rational creatures who reliably fill out tax documents,...
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To Improve Employee Health, Design Workplaces To Reduce Stress
In August 2013, a 21-year-old intern at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch office in London was enduring a grueling week. The intern, Moritz Erhardt, a native of southern Germany, had worked three full...
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Grading the Choice Architecture of Presidential Candidates’ Donor Pages
This article was a two-part series for Richard Thaler’s “Misbehaving” blog. Part one is here. Part two is here. The fundamental premise of Nudge is that small changes in context play an overlooked role...
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Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
“The average expert was roughly as accurate as a dart-throwing chimpanzee.” That’s the punch line to a study that lasted twenty years. In 1984 Philip Tetlock, then an Associate Professor at the...
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The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
The fundamental premise of improv theater is the “Yes, And” rule. While this rule is often subtle—improv actors rarely use those exact words—it can be used to prevent a scene from hitting an awkward...
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Does Reading Cognitive Bias Research Distort the Mind?
Over break I read The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by the British historian David Wootton. Wootton writes that modern science was invented between 1572 (when the...
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The Administrative Nudge Versus the Cultural Jig
Last September, President Obama issued an executive order officially endorsing the nudge. The order represented a major victory for the behavioral science community. What was once an esoteric talking...
View ArticleA Digital Collaborator: The Future of Search
In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges published a short story about an unending library comprised of hexagonal rooms. The library contains every book ever written, every book that will be written, and every book...
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