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- 24th Sep 2024
Let’s electrify!
BIT and Rewiring America partnered to identify messages that inspire and enable climate-concerned people to take action toward electrifying. We used our online platform, Predictiv, to test messages aimed at influencing people’s self-efficacy, interest and knowledge about electrification actions.
- Blog
- 16th Sep 2024
Use a behavioral lens to tackle trust in US healthcare
BIT recently participated in an interdisciplinary Community of Practice (CoP) led by the Pima County Health Department. The goal was to increase health literacy and vaccination rates among Latine people who can become pregnant.
- Blog
- 4th Sep 2024
A guide for reducing administrative burden in government
We’ve all paid the time tax—the exasperating costs that come with learning about, applying for, and participating in government benefits. But no one should have to deal with any undue administrative burdens, especially people seeking support they are eligible for.
- Blog
- 2nd Apr 2024
Meta’s Community Forum on AI
Our ongoing partnership with Meta has yielded strong evidence that deliberative processes are promising mechanisms for platform governance. Last October, building on earlier deliberative processes and our focus on AI, BIT designed and delivered a third Community Forum (CF) sponsored by Meta and working with Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab.
- Blog
- 28th Mar 2024
Broadcasting anti-corruption education to millions
In 1969, Simplemente María, a soap opera about an industrious single mother, led to a spike in literacy class enrollment in Peru. Edutainment experiments have also helped promote healthy sexual development, improve financial decision making, and prevent intimate partner violence.
- Blog
- 27th Mar 2024
Realizing the promise of digital anti-corruption tools
Digital tools are promising in the fight against corruption.
- Blog
- 20th Mar 2024
How can a behavioral science lens reduce corruption?
Since 2019, BIT has been partnering with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on their On Nigeria Big Bet. The initiative aims to bolster the momentum around Nigerian-led efforts to strengthen accountability, reduce corruption, and improve the quality of life for Nigerians.
- Blog
- 12th Mar 2024
Improving government communications with behavioral insights
Governments across the U.S. are responsive to residents' needs every day. But what happens when a state can be proactive, and focus on an initiative to support people long term?
- Blog
- 4th Jan 2024
Three Challenges for Applied Behavioral Science: Overcoming the Hurdles to Private Sector Adoption
While we like to think of ourselves as open to new ideas, the reality is that encountering a new framework or way of thinking is also somewhat threatening.
- Blog
- 28th Dec 2023
Three Promising Opportunities for Applied Behavioral Science Compliance, Cybersecurity & Human Resources
Applied behavioral science has flourished in the private sector over the past decade. Today, there are an estimated 154 corporate behavioral science teams. And this figure doesn’t begin to capture the full magnitude of this work, including recent projects by such disparate companies as Unilever, Indeed and Meta.