Heuristics are efficient cognitive processes that ignore information. In contrast to the widely
held view that less processing reduces accuracy, the study of heuristics shows that less …

▪ Abstract This review examines recent developments during the past 5 years in the field of
judgment and decision making, written in the form of a list of 16 research problems. Many of …

Winner of the 2020 Outstanding Book Award Presented by the Public and Nonprofit Section
of the National Academy of Management Winner of the 2019 Louis Brownlow Book Award …

COVID-19 prevention behaviors may be seen as self-interested or prosocial. Using
American samples from MTurk and Prolific (total n= 6850), we investigated which framing is …

In this Article, I explore the impending conflict between the protection of civil rights and
artificial intelligence (AI). While both areas of law have amassed rich and well-developed …

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Get ready to change the way you think about
economics. Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical …

We are currently witnessing a sharp rise in the use of algorithmic decision-making tools. In
these instances, a new wave of policy concerns is set forth. This article strives to map out …

Human capital theory has had a profound impact on a range of disciplines from economics
to education and sociology. The theory has always been the subject of bitter criticisms from …

Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely
accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative …

We show that a number of noncognitive skills and preferences, including patience and
identity, are malleable in adults, and that investments in them reduce crime and violence …