This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...

Sometimes what looks like a problem with a person is really a problem with the situation. Let me tell you the story of a woman named Amanda who worked for Nike in Vietnam. She traveled a lot, and when ...

Is teaching quality the same as teacher quality? Kim Marshall recently pointed me to this excellent article by Mary M. Kennedy of Michigan State University, which makes a strong case for focusing more ...

This article originally appeared in Science of Us. Generally speaking, when you’re trying to understand a news event through a behavioral-science lens, it’s not a good idea to roll up, loudly invoke ...

I've found myself lately reading a number of books about how humans think - Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Switch by Chip and Dan Heath, A Whole New Mind by Daniel Pink, The Righteous Mind ...

I agree with all of Arthur Levine's conclusions in "Digital Students, Industrial-Era Universities." Where Levine gets it wrong is to assume that this shift is being driven by the demand of digital ...

One day, after being sent home on a mandatory furlough, a group of employees at the Arizona Department of Security were being paid overtime to catch up on their backlog. “Only in government,” State ...

In high school psychology, students learn about an odd tendency of the human condition, the so-called “fundamental attribution error.” We people are hard wired ...

This post is in response to The Ghost of Situationism and Why Personality Is Not a Myth By Scott A. McGreal MSc. This article is part 1 of 2. Every year, the Edge asks many different scientists to ...