Research
Creating Birds of Similar Feathers: Leveraging Similarity to Improve Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement.
When people perceive themselves as similar to others, greater liking and closer relationships typically result.
Reimagining Accountability in K-12 Education: A Behavioral Science Perspective
The primary lever American policymakers have used to improve school performance is “accountability” in the form of high-stakes testing.
How Quantifying Probability Assessments Influences Analysis and Decision Making: Experimental Evidence from National Security Professionals
National security is one of many fields where public officials offer imprecise probability assessments when evaluating high-stakes decisions.
Trust Your Gut or Think Carefully? Examining Whether an Intuitive, Versus a Systematic, Mode of Thought Produces Greater Empathic Accuracy
Cultivating successful personal and professional relationships requires the ability to accurately infer the feelings of others – i.e., to be empathically accurate.
Discouraged by Peer Excellence: Exposure to Exemplary Peer Performance Causes Quitting
People are exposed to exemplary peer performances often (and sometimes by design in interventions).
Real Fixes for Workplace Bias
Corporations, not-for-profit groups and governments spend billions of dollars every year on diversity training—without knowing whether the programs work.
Emergency Department Rotational Patient Assignment
We compare emergency department (ED) operational metrics obtained in the first year of a rotational patient assignment system (in which patients are assigned to physicians automatically according to a
Doves, Serpents and the Iowa Primary
Blind Loyalty? When Group Loyalty Makes Us See Evil or Engage in It
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