Diners order slightly less when restaurants list calories Bye-bye artichoke dip. Heavyweight appetizers and fatty entrees may not get much love when restaurants list calories on their menus. In a new study, Cornell researchers conducted a randomized experiment to see … Continue reading Calorie information disclosure
The Way We Process Risks Can Keep Us in Harm’s Way With massive wildfires terrorizing the West Coast and communities along the Gulf and Caribbean bracing for peak hurricane season, Americans once again have natural disasters on their minds. As … Continue reading How you respond to risk
Encouraging Retirement Planning through Behavioural Insights As part of the Ontario Securities Commission’s strategy and action plan to respond to the needs and priorities of Ontario seniors, described in OSC- Staff Notice 11-779, Seniors Strategy (the Seniors Strategy), we have … Continue reading Plans for retirement
The Facts Are Disappearing. It’s Up to You to Save Them These are confusing times, and they’re getting worse. On the one hand, there’s tons of misinformation: Some of it is disseminated through technology, trolls, and bots; some through Trump’s … Continue reading The challenge of lies
How Twitter Made The Tech World’s Most Unlikely Comeback Two years ago, people were writing eulogies for Twitter. Rudderless and without product direction, the company was losing users and advertisers, and seemed unable to contain a metastasizing trolling crisis that … Continue reading A Rocky-like comeback
Shops Aren’t for Shopping Anymore In the year 2000 at Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio, Abercrombie and Fitch opened the first location of its new shop, Hollister, and set Midwestern high schoolers like myself California dreaming. Designed with a … Continue reading In the palm of your hand
People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more We all know someone who is convinced their opinion is better than everyone else’s on a topic … Continue reading Belief confidence
