Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Co-Director Angela Duckworth’s book on the power of the situation is out today. Join us for a special live, online Q&A with Angela on November 2nd.

Despite decades of research, the conditions under which punishment promotes cooperation remain unclear. Through an integrative experiment varying 14 design parameters of public goods games across 360 experimental conditions (147,618 decisions from 7100 ...

What’s the difference between being loved and feeling loved?

There are widespread fears that conversational artificial intelligence (AI) could soon exert unprecedented influence over human beliefs. In this work, in three large-scale experiments (N = 76,977 resp...

A large-scale study on the replicability of claims from social and behavioural science journals reports that about half of the results replicate in the same patterns as the original study.

How to effectively communicate climate change to the public has long been studied and debated. Through a registered report megastudy, researchers tested the ten most-cited climate change messaging str...

Why is social media so hard to quit? Dr. Laurie Santos talks to Dr. Cass Sunstein, co-author of Nudge, to explore a new concept from the 2026 World Happiness Report: the “product trap.” They unpack wh...

Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou