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Keynote Address: Easier: Why Achieving Your Goals Starts with Shaping Your Situation
It is often said that you cannot control your circumstances, but, with effort, you can control how you react to them. In this Keynote presentation, Duckworth challenges this perspective.
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Keynote Address: The i-frame and the s-frame: How Focusing on Individual-level Solutions has Led Behavioral Public Policy Astray
In his Keynote Address, Loewenstein explores the impact of such i-frame interventions and how they can reduce support for much-needed systemic reforms.
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Inclusivity Spotlight: “Churn”: Life in a Diverse Society and How to Make it Work
The Inclusivity Spotlight features Claude Steele, who covers our ability to get along with each other under the weight of worrisome vigilance, across identity divides, in diverse settings.
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Plenary Session: Beyond False i-frame/s-frame Dichotomies: A Multi-level Complex Systems View of Social and Behavioral Change
Emerging research that integrates cognition and action into complex adaptive systems, social-ecological systems, and cultural evolutionary perspectives may offer traction in identifying solutions to the complex, multi-level societal challenges of our time.
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Plenary Session: Changing Structures, Changing Behavior: How Systemic Forces Drive and Deter Behavior Change
Changing people’s behavior involves more than just changing hearts and minds. In this two-part panel, Markus Brauer and Asaf Mazar present novel systemic approaches to changing behaviors crucial to addressing societal challenges.
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APS-David Myers Distinguished Lecture on the Science and Craft of Teaching Psychological Science: Translating Cognitive Research into a Useful Framework for Teaching and Learning
In the APS-David Myers Distinguished Lecture, Stephen L. Chew outlines a research-based, context-dependent framework of the cognitive challenges of teaching.