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Dec 16, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak
Welcome to our selection of Notable Books for 2024. Each year, we review hundreds of newly published titles covering the science of human behavior. Our goal is to select the books that educate and entice us, surprise and delight us, and leave us smarter, wiser, and better informed about ourselves and our world. This year’s list features 45 books, each published in 2024.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak
Summer moves fast. Schedules fill quickly. Backyard gatherings. Weddings. Reunions. A few choice weekends marked “Beach” on the calendar. The annual road trip home. But summer moves slowly, too. A calm morning sipping coffee on the porch. Sprawling out on a beach towel in between swims. Conversations during long evenings that seem to push night further and further away. Time seems to open up as one moment melts into the next, delightfully, unexpectedly.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak
Caring for patients with serious burns, making sure the correct leg gets operated on, and working 24 hours straight with Teresa Shuster, a nurse in Florida. How did a patient change the trajectory of her career? And what’s a “Code Brown”? View the episode transcriptAbout What It’s Like to Be…In each episode of What It’s Like to Be…, bestselling author Dan Heath speaks with someone about what it’s like to walk in their (work) shoes.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak |Kit Yates
Crafting jokes that kill, hustling to find gigs, and improvising based on the audience’s reaction with Chris Grace, a stand-up comedian. What’s the worst he’s ever bombed? And what is a “bringer” show? View the episode transcriptAbout What It’s Like to Be…In each episode of What It’s Like to Be…, bestselling author Dan Heath speaks with someone about what it’s like to walk in their (work) shoes.
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Feb 2, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak |Kit Yates
Cutting to accentuate the client’s eyes and ears, plotting to tame Einstein’s hair, and riding the ups and downs of entrepreneurship with Ona Diaz-Santin, a hair stylist and owner of 5 Salon & Spa in New Jersey. What’s the most irritating way a client can respond to a haircut? And why was she christened “The Hair Saint”?
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Jan 24, 2024 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Evan Nesterak |Antonia Violante
Join Books Editor Antonia Violante, Editor-in-Chief Evan Nesterak, and other Behavioral Scientist readers for a conversation about the latest behavioral science books. Inspired by our Notable Books List series, the event is a chance to learn more about Behavioral Scientist’s selection process, get recommendations, discuss your personal favorites, and offer ideas and feedback on books coverage.
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Dec 23, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak |Kit Yates |Dan Heath
Welcome to Behavioral Scientist’s most read articles of 2023. Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year. — Evan and the Behavioral Scientist teamP.S.—You may also be interested in our list of Notable Behavioral Science Books published in 2023 and the Most Read Articles of 2022. Harvard Professor Under Scrutiny for Alleged Data FraudBy Evan NesterakFrancesca Gino is under scrutiny for allegedly fabricating data in at least four studies.
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Dec 20, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak
Each year we review hundreds of newly published books in the behavioral sciences with the same goal in mind: to select those that stretch our thinking, surprise us, delight us, and help us better understand ourselves and our world. Because the behavioral sciences cover a lot of ground, so does this list. And like the behavioral sciences, this list resists a single categorization. There are books on intuition, innovation, and intelligence; poverty, probability, and technology.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Greg Rosalsky |Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak |Amy C. Edmondson
On a stormy Sunday in February 1995, 37-year-old Steve Carruthers strapped on his skis and headed into the Wasatch Mountains near Salt Lake City, Utah. It had dumped almost two feet of snow that weekend, and Carruthers and two friends wanted to ski powder in the untamed wilderness of the backcountry. The Utah Avalanche Center’s advisory warned there was a serious danger of avalanches that day. The new snow, it cautioned, had fallen on a slippery crust of ice, and steeper slopes could slide.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Antonia Violante |Evan Nesterak |Amy C. Edmondson
Scouting body disposal sites, investigating obscure poisons, and computing royalty payments with Donna Andrews, the mystery novelist behind the Meg Langslow series. How do you make a living as a mystery novelist? And could Tylenol be a murder weapon? View the episode transcriptAbout What It’s Like to Be…In each episode of What It’s Like to Be…, bestselling author Dan Heath speaks with someone about what it’s like to walk in their (work) shoes.
