A dating app can lead to face swiping fatigue. With a slew of pictures and bios to consider, users can find it harder to select the right person. Analysts have suggested that the endless supply makes …
Behavioral Economics
The intersection of psychology and economics, behavioral economics looks at human tendencies that involve biology and culture when predicting and explaining economic decision-making.
How Our Tweets Reflect Our Happiness
Through more than 10,000 happy and sad words in tweets, the Computational Story Lab hedonometer has been measuring happiness everyday.…
How Dating Markets Have Changed
As they replace the traditional ways that couples meet each other, onlne dating markets are reducing the role of friends and family.…
What (Baseball) Spitballs and (Coronavirus) Sanitizer Have in Common
During the 1870s some players discovered they could change a baseball’s trajectory at precisely the right moment. It just took a bit of spit. Decades later they banned the spitball because it ma…
Where LEGO is More Than a Toy
Instead of spending hours or even days constructing a multi-thousand piece set, many thousnads of people prefer investing in LEGOs.…
Does a Calorie Label Make Us Eat Less?
While the purpose of restaurant calorie labels has been to provide diners with more information, it did not work out entirely as expected.…
When the Good Life Is About More Than Happiness
Although psychologists have expanded the definition of the good life, still, the same economic policies relate to sustaining it.…
What a Behavioral Economist Says About Exercise
Further evidence that economics is everywhere, a behavioral economist knows how to incentivize exercise through temptation bundling.…
When Money Makes Us Happy
In addition to income and gender inequality, there is a happiness gap that relates to income, education, and job prestige.…
What a Tip Tells Us
Wherever the economy reopens, we will return to tipping behavior that not only sends a message about us but also about what others expect.…