Megastudies improve the impact of applied behavioural science.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 2021
Historique:
received: 22 10 2020
accepted: 13 10 2021
pubmed: 10 12 2021
medline: 12 2 2022
entrez: 9 12 2021
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Policy-makers are increasingly turning to behavioural science for insights about how to improve citizens' decisions and outcomes

Identifiants

pubmed: 34880497
doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04128-4
pii: 10.1038/s41586-021-04128-4
pmc: PMC8822539
mid: NIHMS1774681
doi:

Types de publication

Clinical Trial Comparative Study Journal Article Multicenter Study Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

478-483

Subventions

Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : P30 AG034532
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIA NIH HHS
ID : P30 AG034546
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIH HHS
ID : 5P30 AG034532
Pays : United States

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.

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Auteurs

Katherine L Milkman (KL)

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. kmilkman@wharton.upenn.edu.

Dena Gromet (D)

Behavior Change for Good Initiative, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Hung Ho (H)

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Department of Marketing, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Joseph S Kay (JS)

Behavior Change for Good Initiative, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Timothy W Lee (TW)

Behavior Change for Good Initiative, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Pepi Pandiloski (P)

Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Yeji Park (Y)

Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Aneesh Rai (A)

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Max Bazerman (M)

Department of Negotiation, Organizations & Markets, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

John Beshears (J)

Department of Negotiation, Organizations & Markets, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Lauri Bonacorsi (L)

Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.

Colin Camerer (C)

Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.

Edward Chang (E)

Department of Negotiation, Organizations & Markets, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Gretchen Chapman (G)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Robert Cialdini (R)

Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA.

Hengchen Dai (H)

Department of Management and Organizations, Anderson School of Management, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Lauren Eskreis-Winkler (L)

Department of Behavioral Science, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Ayelet Fishbach (A)

Department of Behavioral Science, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

James J Gross (JJ)

Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Samantha Horn (S)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Alexa Hubbard (A)

Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Steven J Jones (SJ)

Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.

Dean Karlan (D)

Department of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

Tim Kautz (T)

Mathematica, Princeton, NJ, USA.

Erika Kirgios (E)

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Joowon Klusowski (J)

Department of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Ariella Kristal (A)

Department of Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Rahul Ladhania (R)

Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

George Loewenstein (G)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Jens Ludwig (J)

Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Barbara Mellers (B)

Department of Marketing, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Sendhil Mullainathan (S)

Department of Behavioral Science, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

Silvia Saccardo (S)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Jann Spiess (J)

Department of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA, USA.

Gaurav Suri (G)

Department of Psychology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Joachim H Talloen (JH)

Department of Social and Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

Jamie Taxer (J)

Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.

Yaacov Trope (Y)

Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, NY, USA.

Lyle Ungar (L)

Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Kevin G Volpp (KG)

Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Ashley Whillans (A)

Department of Negotiation, Organizations & Markets, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.

Jonathan Zinman (J)

Department of Economics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA.

Angela L Duckworth (AL)

Department of Operations, Information and Decisions, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. aduckworth@characterlab.org.
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. aduckworth@characterlab.org.

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