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- 17th Jun 2021
Podcast: COVID vaccines & tech repairability
Working with mayors across the US on engaging with people who are cautious or unwilling to get a COVID-19 vaccine and supporting the French government's plans to promote a more sustainable and circular economy by encouraging people to repair rather than replace tech products.
- Blog
- 14th Jul 2021
"What would happen if your website was attacked?"
It's hard for businesses — particularly SMEs — to know when and how to patch their software. In collaboration with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), we ran two trials to help tackle this problem.…
- Blog
- 3rd Aug 2021
We need your help! We’re looking for the most innovative behaviorally-informed policies in Latin America and the Caribbean
Do you work in the public sector in Latin America and the Caribbean? Have you applied behavioral science to policy problems? If so, we want to hear from you! We are looking for the most innovative public policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. We want to hear from institutions…
- Blog
- 9th Sep 2021
More than a moment: BIT’s dedication to improving wellbeing
The field of wellbeing represents a classical behavioral "failure", with people misperceiving the choices that will increase their happiness and wellbeing
- Academic publication
- 4th Oct 2021
The EmpaTeach intervention for reducing physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp
We tested whether the EmpaTeach intervention could reduce physical violence from teachers to students in Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania.
- Academic publication
- 11th Oct 2021
Reducing Burnout and Resignations among Frontline Workers: A Field Experiment
In this article, we report on a multicity field experiment (n = 536) aimed at increasing perceived social support and affirming belonging among 911 dispatchers.
- Academic publication
- 1st Nov 2021
Persisting effects of social norm feedback letters in reducing household electricity usage in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe
In a large-scale randomized field experiment in Chisinau, Moldova, with over 120,000 households, we tested the influence of a simple, one-time letter presenting electricity-usage social comparison feedback.
- Press release
- 19th Nov 2021
Dangerous left turns slow by 17% in new traffic study leveraging behavioral science
All U.S. cities can prevent pedestrian deaths with practical investments that yield fast, meaningful improvements in safety
- Blog
- 25th Nov 2021
16 days of activism against gender-based violence
In 2019, one in three women reported having experienced physical or sexual abuse, the majority of which was committed by intimate partners. During the UN's upcoming 16 days of activism against gender-based violence (November 25 to December 10), we will be publishing a series of blogs outlining the projects we've been…
- Blog
- 1st Dec 2021
Involucrando a hombres y niños como aliados en la prevención de la violencia contra las mujeres y las niñas
Una de cada tres mujeres experimenta violencia física y/o sexual en algún momento de sus vidas, la mayoría a manos de una pareja íntima, tanto a nivel mundial como en América Latina. Los estudios demuestran que los hombres son los responsables de la inmensa mayoría de estos actos.
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