Boosting: Empowering citizens with behavioral science

SM Herzog, R Hertwig - Annual Review of Psychology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Behavioral public policy came to the fore with the introduction of nudging, which aims to
steer behavior while maintaining freedom of choice. Responding to critiques of nudging (eg …

Interventions to modify psychological well-being: Progress, promises, and an agenda for future research

LD Kubzansky, ES Kim, JK Boehm, RJ Davidson… - Affective Science, 2023 - Springer
Psychological well-being, characterized by feelings, cognitions, and strategies that are
associated with positive functioning (including hedonic and eudaimonic well-being), has …

Toolbox of interventions against online misinformation

The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of
society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the …

Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity

JG Voelkel, MN Stagnaro, JY Chu, SL Pink, JS Mernyk… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American
democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n= 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments …

[PDF][PDF] Megastudy identifying effective interventions to strengthen Americans' democratic attitudes

JG Voelkel, M Stagnaro, J Chu, SL Pink… - OSF Preprints …, 2023 - academia.edu
Deep partisan conflict in the mass public threatens the stability of American democracy. We
conducted a megastudy (n= 32,059) testing 25 interventions designed by academics and …

[PDF][PDF] Megastudy identifying successful interventions to strengthen Americans' democratic attitudes

JG Voelkel, M Stagnaro, J Chu, S Pink… - … : Evanston, IL, USA, 2022 - ipr.northwestern.edu
Deep partisan conflict in the mass public threatens the stability of American democracy. The
researchers conducted a megastudy on a national sample of American partisans (n …

Advancing research and practice of psychological intergroup interventions

S Čehajić-Clancy, E Halperin - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
The decline in intergroup relations evident in myriad conflicts around the world has far-
reaching implications: it erodes trust and cooperation at both the individual and societal …

Exposure to a media intervention helps promote support for peace in Colombia

E Bruneau, A Casas, B Hameiri, N Kteily - Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Whereas politicians broker peace deals, it falls to the public to embrace peace and help
sustain it. The legacy of conflicts can make it difficult for people to support reconciling and …

How to build up big team science: A practical guide for large-scale collaborations

HA Baumgartner, N Alessandroni… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of big team science (BTS), endeavours where
a comparatively large number of researchers pool their intellectual and/or material …

How to design and conduct a megastudy

JG Voelkel, JY Chu, MN Stagnaro… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Megastudies are experiments that test many treatments simultaneously using the same
outcomes, control condition and sample, and are a promising tool that can provide unique …