Accelerating Knowledge
Promoting the dissemination of behavioral science insights
Community Building
Convening communities and dialogues that promote the accessibility of social and behavioral science to policymakers and other practitioners
Translating Behavioral Science
Reviewing and interpreting state of the art research concerning practically relevant scientific knowledge for non-experts
Our Spotlight Workshops bring policymakers, practitioners & scientists together to brainstorm various research ‘best-practices’ & subject areas in a local setting.
Topics such as energy, pre-K education, health and financial decision making can drive the agenda.
BSPA facilitated working groups consist of the top experts in the world coalescing around local, federal and global government priorities in order to facilitate actionable insights being put into practice. Most recently, BSPA provided working groups aimed at providing advisory to the White House’s SBST.
BSPA holds an Annual Conference aimed at bringing together behavioral scientists, policymakers, executives and press to challenge assumptions on how the behavioral sciences can be applied across multiple contexts, & highlighting the most relevant findings to private & public sector policy makers.
BSPA is developing an open access, curated Archive of applicable behavioral science research, vetted by a team of leading scientists & policy experts. The Archive will provide research that has implications for program choices within a specific area of focus & identify tools to facilitate effective implementation of such insights for users to tap into.
BSPA acts as a conduit for the global behavioral science community – connecting academics, practitioners and policymakers through our network.
Our individual & co-sponsored events facilitate introductions & projects to foster cross-institutional collaboration.
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Another great approach for scientist opeds, writing for your hometown paper about the importance of science funding. (Ungated copy in the original thread)
— Lisa Fazio (@lkfazio.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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If you have expertise in a technical, seemingly boring, area (how university budgets work, the laws around hiring + firing in the civil service, or how predatory lending operates) *please* keep explaining it to us. It's not obvious to everyone how these changes will impact lives.
— Elizabeth Linos (@elizabethlinos.bsky.social) February 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our new study was just published in Nature! In Michigan, we find a large and persistent racial excellence gap over time. Socio-economic status explains one-third of the racial disparity in top academic achievement while school factors only explain about 1/10th. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
— John A. List (@johnlist.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Crystal Reeck, @kellenmrkva.bsky.social, @ericjjohnson.bsky.social, and I just wrote an article about digital design -- nudges and dark patterns. Though they can help people make good choices, they must be used wisely. Bad actors frequently use them to mislead. Check it out!
— Nate Posner (@nate-posner.bsky.social) February 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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BSP is an international peer-reviewed journal featuring short, accessible articles describing actionable policy applications of behavioral scientific research that serves the public interest. Edited by foremost disciplinary scholars for scientific rigor, and leading policy analysts for relevance and feasibility of implementation, manuscripts that pass this dual-review are professionally edited to ensure accessibility to a broad audience including policy makers, executives, behavioral scientists, and educated lay readers. BSP is an interdisciplinary joint publication of BSPA and the Brookings Institution.
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