Research
Preface
When terrorists operating under the banner of the Islamic State launched their savage attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015 the world was reminded anew of just how complex a challenge this will contin
Modeling Persuasion within Small Groups, with an Application to a Deliberative Field Experiment on U.S. Fiscal Policy
We propose a new method to measure persuasion within small groups, and apply this method to a large scale randomized deliberative experiment.
Emotion and Decision Making
A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in recent decades, with the potential to create a paradigm shift in decision theories.
Losing Hurts: The Happiness Impact of Partisan Electoral Loss
Partisan identity shapes social, mental, economic, and physical life.
Commitment Devices: Using Initiatives to Change Behavior-Reply
Unhealthy behaviors are responsible for a large proportion of health care costs and poor health outcomes.
The Underutilized Potential of Teacher-to-Parent Communication: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Parental involvement is correlated with student performance, though the causal relationship is less well established.
The Belief in a Favorable Future
We propose that people hold a belief in a favorable future (BFF), projecting that the future will change in ways advantageous to their current interests.
Persistence: How Treatment Effects Persist After Interventions Stop
Interventions intended to change people’s behavior are ubiquitous in modern society.
The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Energy Conservation
We document three remarkable features of the Opower program, in which social comparison-based home energy reports are repeatedly mailed to more than six million households nationwide.
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