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Making Government Logical
The New York Times: THERE wasn’t a lot of fanfare, but last week may turn out to be among the most consequential of President Obama’s second term. By executive order, Mr. Obama directed federal agencies
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Obama Administration Elevates Role of Behavioral Science in Government Services
Behavioral science will have an increasingly integral role in the way the US government operates and provides services under a new set of actions by the White House. President Obama signed an executive order September
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Are Impulsivity Problems Memory Problems?
Everyone seems to know at least one person who could be described as impulsive. That person whose brain — and mouth — seem to go a mile a minute, who does things without thinking them
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Books to Check Out
To submit a new book, email apsobserver@psychologicalscience.org Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking by Richard E. Nisbett; Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, August 18, 2015. The Developing Genome: An Introduction to Behavioral Epigenetics by David S. Moore
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Data ‘Salvation’ for Suicide Research
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A Milestone in Federally Funded Behavioral Science
In the United States, medicine functions too much like a “repair shop,” believes David R. Williams of Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health: People only seek medical advice when something goes wrong. This
