The urgent policy changes and implementations needed to create social good require behavioral science.
For good intentions to manifest as concrete social change, we need to understand how people think. We are often irrational: overlooking why people do what they do may derail perfectly logical plans to improve global wellbeing. Behavioral science turns intention into real progress.
See how we’re mobilizing the tools of behavioral science to maximize impact, reduce bias, and lay the groundwork for a more just global society.
Discover the range of experimental & quasi-experimental methods available for measuring impact and which are best suited to your specific context, empower your people to be critical consumers of impact measurement plans and results, and ultimately deploy these evidence-based principles and approaches to drive real impact for people and communities
Unpack and adapt to social, economic and cultural contexts, factoring in local rituals, drivers and biases to create and launch effective evidence-based interventions and maximize impact on targeted populations
Help reduce systemic bias (even when eliminating all bias, including implicit bias, seems psychologically impossible or simply unrealistic) through evidence-based solutions such as collecting data to document disparities that are occurring as a result of bias and instituting mitigating processes and policies along with strong systems of accountability
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What is social justice, and why is it important? We sat down with our research director, Dr. Brooke Struck, to discuss how behavioral science and social justice can work together in tandem.
Game theory offers a surprising strategy to make city streets safer: get rid of traffic signs. In some cities, it's already working.
The Decision Lab sits down with Elizabeth Linos and Stefano DellaVigna to discuss their work on behavioral economics and policy making.
