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DSN readers take note of new association, the Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA), and a new journal, Behavioral Science & Policy
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The AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellowship that now has placement opportunities for the new U.S. Social and Behavioral Science Team. This is an outstanding opportunity for would-be Nudgers to bring our science into practice serving the public interest through various government agencies.
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The Marketing Science Special Issue draws on recent advances in computer science and statistics to deepen our understanding of consumer behavior and to improve the practice of marketing in data-rich environments.
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The New York Times had an article on the widespread confusion about whether skipping breakfast causes you to gain or lose weight. Turns out there’s no real scientific evidence that skipping breakfast has any effect on obesity.
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A GLOBAL VIEW The Guardian newspaper in the UK made this rather amazing interactive infographic (click through to interact) on causes of death, conditioned on age and region, around the world. They also provide, below, a display of ranked causes of death, and how they’ve changed since 1990. How do people die? One thing that […]
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If you ask people in the US “What generic word do you use to describe carbonated soft drinks?”, you get data that look like these. Pop in the Midwest. Coke in the South. Soda everywhere else.
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A behavioral insights team has been approved for the United States government, and, they’re hiring! The team is led by the impressive Maya U. Shankar, Senior Policy Advisor , who is a Ph.D. psychologist and Rhodes Scholar. This team is poised to do good things.
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When leaving an international airport, you usually see many people walking straight through customs, but occasionally a passenger with large suitcases up on shiny metal tables, with customs officers going through the contents. How the customs officers decide which people to stop?
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The New York Times reports on a report, written by the MTA, about the decisions of subway riders:
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DARN THAT IS INTERESTING Rob Kurzban has an interesting write up of this article on the dictator game here. ABSTRACT Economic experiments are increasingly being used in a number of research areas and are a major source of data guiding the debate surrounding the nature of human prosociality. The degree to which experiment behavior accurately […]
