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Another’s wasted investment is as disturbing as one’s own
THAT human beings often continue to pour money into bad projects because they have already invested in them and cannot bring themselves to lose that investment is well known. Indeed the sunk-cost fallacy, as this
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How Behavioral Science Can Help World Leaders Reach Vaccination Goals
It’s World Immunization Week. The new issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest details the behavioral strategies that scientists have tested to increase vaccination rates across the globe.
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The US Office of Evaluation Sciences Releases 2016-2017 Results
The US Office of Evaluation Sciences (OES), a team of social and behavioral scientists tasked with designing and testing evidence-based interventions within the federal government, has released the results of their most recent evaluations of government programs.
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Psychological Scientists Celebrate Thaler at Nobel Ceremony
University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler, whose work has roots in the groundbreaking research of APS William James Fellows Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences on December 10
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New Books: December 2017
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter by Dan Ariely; Harper, November 7, 2017. Invisible Mind: Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanization by Lasana T. Harris; MIT Press, March 10, 2017.
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“How to Give a Gift: Shock and Awe, or Calm and Useful?” by
C. Nathan DeWall and “Corralling the Drifting Mind” by Cindi May and Gil Einstein
