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How to Create Lasting Change 
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September 30, 2015

How to Create Lasting Change 

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Looking at Affirmative Action in a New Light
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September 17, 2015

Looking at Affirmative Action in a New Light

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Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps
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September 8, 2015

Perceived Gaps in Equity Affect Decisions More Than Absolute Gaps

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Simple But Powerful Solutions to Education’s Thorniest Problems
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August 31, 2015

Simple But Powerful Solutions to Education’s Thorniest Problems

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Restoring Self-Worth Encourages Healthy Behaviors

Restoring Self-Worth Encourages Healthy Behaviors

How can we convince people to heed warning labels and other public health campaigns? A paper in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences’ suggests we focus on self-affirmation.

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Seeing Others as Fully Human

Seeing Others as Fully Human

Although ‘dehumanizing the other’ may seem like something for, umm, others to do, the action is common from fantasy football to Homo economicus finds a paper in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Brain and Behavioral Sciences.’

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Creating Equality in the Workplace Everyone’s Responsibility

Creating Equality in the Workplace Everyone’s Responsibility

Call it the ‘paradox of equality’: Women are expected to lean in but it turns out there are barriers that are invisible until you smack your head on one. Who should be tasked with taking the tilt out of leaning in?

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Want Better Health and Longevity?  Invest in Education

Want Better Health and Longevity? Invest in Education

Education — even more so than spending on health — correlates with a longer life, according to research reported in the journal ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.’

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Social Rejection—Who Knew?

Social Rejection—Who Knew?

New research in ‘Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences’ finds that being left out and ignored causes more pain and emotional damage than any overt forms of abuse.

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Putting the Detective Work in Lie Detection

Putting the Detective Work in Lie Detection

Combining a little detective work on what some says — even more so than how they say it — gives an advantage in detecting a liar.

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False Confessions, True Consequences: Why and How to Reform Interrogations  

False Confessions, True Consequences: Why and How to Reform Interrogations  

Every year, innocent people sit in prison cells, some of them even on death row. A surprising number are there because they confessed to crimes they did not commit. Psychologist Saul Kassin is looking into why.

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To Better Social Policies, Listen to Beneficiaries

To Better Social Policies, Listen to Beneficiaries

Who would have more valuable feedback than the people being assisted about how or why a program is meeting their genuine needs or not. Using ‘behavioral mapping,’ researchers can design better interventions based on real-life data and not the researchers’ own assumptions.

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