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Mar 22, 2024 | 
scroll.in | Todd Travon Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
When readers regard a topic as personally relevant, they will exert more effort to understand it, read more deeply, and recall more content. Researchers have experimentally confirmed what we’ve all noticed subjectively: People tend to devote more time and effort to things that affect them directly. In one study, psychologist Richard Petty and his colleagues asked undergraduate students to read about a college policy under consideration, such as creating an exam requirement for graduation.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
sfgate.com | Jessica Lasky-Fink
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Jessica Lasky-Fink, Harvard Kennedy School and Elizabeth Linos, Harvard Kennedy School(THE CONVERSATION) There are pervasive stereotypes that Americans who are low income and access government assistance are lazy, lack a work ethic and are even morally inferior. This stigma has been shown to have many negative consequences.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
middletownpress.com | Jessica Lasky-Fink
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)Jessica Lasky-Fink, Harvard Kennedy School and Elizabeth Linos, Harvard Kennedy School(THE CONVERSATION) There are pervasive stereotypes that Americans who are low income and access government assistance are lazy, lack a work ethic and are even morally inferior. This stigma has been shown to have many negative consequences.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink |Amy C. Edmondson
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
Catching embezzling CFOs, sniffing out a corrupt private school headmaster, and sifting through fake invoices with Chris Ekimoff, a forensic accountant at RSM US. What are his go-to moves to detect fraud? And who is the most famous forensic accountant (besides Ben Affleck)? 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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Oct 18, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
Meeting Muhammad Ali, handling fans who are alcoholics, pouring with no foam, and dreaming about one last game with Howard Hart, who spent three decades as a stadium beer vendor. If you want to see Howard in action, The Washington Post put together a great video feature on him in 2014. View the episode transcript. About 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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Oct 18, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
Defending a man prosecuted for breaking into his own house, carrying clients’ burdens, and dispelling a myth about Miranda rights with Mike Panella, a criminal defense attorney from Orlando. 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. Behavioral Scientist serves as a distribution partner with episodes released every other week.
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Oct 18, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Dan Heath |Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
My new podcast, What It’s Like To Be…, debuts this week, but its origin goes back a while—to a time when I called a plumber to fix a toilet. Before I’d called, I had conducted some careful diagnostics myself, which involved lifting the tank’s porcelain lid, confirming that I still lacked basic comprehension of the components inside, and then replacing the lid.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
nextbigideaclub.com | Todd Travon Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink |Mustafa Suleyman |Michael Bhaskar
Michèle Lamont is an acclaimed Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard University. She served as President of the American Sociological Association in 2016 and she recently co-chaired the advisory board to the 2022 United Nations Human Development Report. Below, Michèle shares 5 key insights from her new book, Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How it Can Help us Heal a Divided World.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
behavioralscientist.org | Amy C. Edmondson |Evan Nesterak |Todd Rogers |Jessica Lasky-Fink
I sat, dumbfounded, staring at the computer screen starkly displaying my failure to find support for my study hypothesis. My first thought was, How could I admit how wrong I had been to my supervisor and to the doctors leading the study?
