Behavioral Science & Policy
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Healthy Habits: Using Behavioral Science in Health Policy
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Encouraging healthy behaviors is a significant policy challenge because efforts to spark conversation around a health topic often fail to translate into strategies that actually change collective health behaviors. Although campaigns might be successful at spreading information, such messages may not inspire people to act differently. For example, when the…
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Understanding Uncertainty: How to Improve Communication Around Climate Change Evidence
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Although the majority of the scientific community agrees that Earth’s climate is warming, there is still considerable public debate about whether or not climate change is happening and how serious the government’s response should be. Indeed, a recent report from Yale University finds that only 47 percent of conservative Republicans…