bspa this week (1.10.17)
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Sticking with those New Year’s Resolutions
New Year’s is a time for a fresh start, new goals…and lists of behavioral science-backed tips for keeping those personal contracts. Forbes offers 5 New Year’s resolutions you can keep (with the help of behavioral science research) from HBS Working Knowledge. Quartz has seven science-backed tips for forming habits that stick. NY Mag’s Science of Us shares 5 things to remember to change your life for the better. The Nudgespotting blog has three insights for getting active in D.C. (or really anywhere).
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Text Your Way to College
This New York Times op-ed features a low-cost nudge to improve college enrollment pioneered by Ben Castleman.
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Ideas42 Helping Government Engage New Yorkers
On their blog, ideas42 discusses bringing behavioral science to the City of New York with their newest Behavioral Design Team and some results from an intervention to redesign outreach on flood risk.
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The Mystery of Motivation
Psychology Today: “The most carefully crafted incentives, from cash rewards to social props, routinely backfire. What does it really take to get people to do the ‘right’ thing?
In Other News...
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The friendship that created behavioral economics: A conversation with Michael Lewis https://t.co/kL1zbL33Rl pic.twitter.com/Fiw5WizusF
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 8, 2017
The theory of climate change has prevailed in the scientific marketplace, by Bloomberg Professor Paul Ferraro: https://t.co/pgatexEjKa @bv pic.twitter.com/nsJpgQOpd2
— Bloomberg Professors (@JHU_BDPs) December 27, 2016
Come work with us! RA position at Princeton and in Kenya - please spread the news! https://t.co/0QmpvJbQy2
— Johannes Haushofer (@jhaushofer) January 4, 2017
Kyu collective (with @ideo) acquires our #BehavioralEconomics firm @BEworksInc see https://t.co/Yp5u8EJXb3. very exciting! @B_I_Tweets
— Nina Mažar (@NinaMazar) January 10, 2017
Bringing behavioral insights into conservation programs and policies. https://t.co/luk6I3yJSx pic.twitter.com/JwqMby4Llc
— Cool Green Science (@nature_brains) January 6, 2017
#BehavioralEconomics & Developmental Science: A New Framework to Support Early #Childhood Interventionshttps://t.co/1Rd9IKvEVz pic.twitter.com/ZhSMFb4cRd
— Andreas Staub (@andi_staub) January 7, 2017