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How Groups Succeed Where Willpower Fails
Why shared goals, social norms, and smart environments are the real engines of lasting behavior change
Dec 29, 2025
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Debunking Popular Psychology Myths: Revising The Bystander Effect
Our first column in a series debunking the biggest myths in the history of social psychology
Sep 5, 2024
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Why are we suckers for Astrology, the Myers-Briggs, and other shaky psychology tests?
Issue 119: Our hot take on phony personality tests and zodiacs
May 21, 2024
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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How to talk about climate change and the problem with doomerism
Issue 107: We conducted one of the largest experiments ever on climate change behavior — with advice from MythBusters' Jamie Hyneman
Feb 27, 2024
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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An Unexpected Model for Education in the Age of Polarization
How a small residence in New York City created a transformative educational experience
8 hrs ago
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Anni Sternisko
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Diego Reinero
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Applied Psychology
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An Unexpected Model for Education in the Age of Polarization
How a small residence in New York City created a transformative educational experience
8 hrs ago
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Anni Sternisko
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Diego Reinero
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Why video evidence is unable to create a shared reality
Why partisans disagree over the tragic shooting by an ICE agent
Jan 12
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Anni Sternisko
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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How Groups Succeed Where Willpower Fails
Why shared goals, social norms, and smart environments are the real engines of lasting behavior change
Dec 29, 2025
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Policing, Protests, and Us: Why Force Deepens Division
An identity-based account of how crackdowns on demonstrations can intensify collective action — in the wake of the Minneapolis ICE killing.
Jan 17
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Polarized Family Gatherings: The New Holiday Reality
What research reveals about political conflict during family dinners—and how to steer conversations back to connection
Nov 25, 2025
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Democracy in the (Dis)information Age
Issue 184: A guest lecture with Jay and Asha Rangappa from the Freedom Academy
Oct 17, 2025
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Dominic Packer & Jay Van Bavel
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Asha Rangappa
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