Articles That Left Me Thinking

Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them

New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes

The High Cost of Not Doing Experiments - Behavioral Scientist

We can pay dearly, in blood, treasure, and well-being, for experiments that aren’t done. -Richard Nisbett, Mindware

The mistake we all make... and the simple experiment that reveals it

Your answer reveals how you see the world – and the common error that hampers our decision making. In an extract from his new book, psychologist Richard Nisbett reveals the ‘mindware’ to help us think smarter

The New Science of Designing for Humans (SSIR)

The rise of behavioral science and impact evaluation has created a new way for engineering programs and human interactions. <meta property=

So you want a behavioral finance job

I’m going to mainly focus on a career in the private sector, doing applied work. If you want to know about government work, ask Maya Shankar or Owain Service. If what I’ve written doesn’t answer your questions, ask me. Just have something specific and interesting to ask about! But first, some screeners: Is this a long-term interest? Is this something you want to dedicate at least a decade to? It should be, otherwise you’ll get out-competed by others.

What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse

What if marriage is not the social good that so many believe and want it to be?

You and Your Research

Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986

Opinion | When It Comes to Covid-19, Most of Us Have Risk Exactly Backward (Published 2020)

We aren’t very good at discussing trade-offs, but we need to make some during this pandemic.

A More Perfect Meritocracy

Two new books take aim at the moral failures of meritocracy. But we can advocate for a more just society without giving up on merit.

Death of the calorie

For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure

When Bad Things Happen in Slow Motion - Nautilus

Is there more to our experience of time than the foibles of memory?