This paper documents the existence of a ‘formality effect’ in government communications. Across three online studies and three field…
November 7, 2023, Article: "You may not have heard of the Bühler Group, but you have almost certainly eaten something processed by their…
Policy Points Pregnancy and childhood are periods of heightened economic vulnerability, but current policies for addressing health-related…
The central challenge of our age is how to make development sustainable—to assure that it advances people’s well-being in the here and now…
Following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the grounds behind Vladimir Putin’s decision were widely debated.…
The need for faster and deeper transitions toward more sustainable development pathways is now widely recognized. How to meet that need has…
November 18, 2023, Paper: "We study the introduction of a choice architecture design intended to increase shortterm savings among…
Across all domains of human social life, positive perceptions of conversational listening (i.e., feeling heard) predict well-being,…
November 15, 2023, Paper: "An individual’s views on economic policy could be shaped by ‘zero-sum thinking’: the view that any gain by one…
In November 2022, the Ethiopian government signed a cease-fire with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. The international community…