When it comes to persuasion, whether it’s convincing customers to buy a bottle of whiskey or changing hearts and minds in an election, nothing beats the power of behavioral science. The Fast Company ...

Most of us think great marketing is all about closing the deal, but what if telling people they don’t have to buy is the real secret? Maybe you’ve experienced this too, that moment when someone shares ...

Books and articles on behavioral finance tend to discuss “the crazy things that clients sometimes do and not a lot about what we, as practitioners, are supposed to actually do about it,” said Kitces, ...

A collaborative study tested 17 strategies in an 'intervention tournament.' Interventions targeting future thinking, such as writing a letter for a child to read in the future, are the most effective ...

Empower individuals and groups to improve their own health by applying social and behavioral science principles to education. As a student in the MPH in Social and Behavioral Sciences program, you’ll ...

Autism is not one condition,” said Geraldine Dawson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University and founding director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development. “It ...

The Culver Mentor and Research Fellows program is an endowed program that supports undergraduate research and creative scholarship in the disciplines of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division.

The current ecological crises facing our planet are extensively the result of a human behavioral crisis, according to a 2023 paper appearing in the journal Science Progress. The paper cites economic ...