The decision to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a career government economist, came six months after the president fired the ...

Complementing gamification is nudge theory, the behavioral economics framework developed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

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In August 2021, University of Chicago Prof. Oeindrila Dube began reviewing data on a first-of-its-kind police training program she helped design and implement. Its objective: improve Chicago police ...

This project carried out a decadal survey on the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) in areas relevant to national security. The survey identified opportunities that are poised to contribute ...

In Part 1 of this two-part article, we explored how we can move from behavioral insights to behavioral intelligence by understanding and reconciling complexity and distilling parsimonious explanations ...

Why do so many AI projects flop? After years of hearing how AI will revolutionize business, recent studies have shown that companies are still consistently struggling to wring value from their ...

Drexel's PhD in Applied Cognitive and Brain Sciences (ACBS) is a non-clinical, research-intensive program designed for students passionate about experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The ...

Purdue University’s online Master's in Applied Statistics prepares students to advance theory, methods and computing for the purpose of meeting today’s emerging science and technology by including ...