My UNDER THE INFLUENCE: PUTTING PEER PRESSURE TO WORK was published last week by Princeton University Press. In this thread of threads, I’ll post links to my recent threads drawn from the book.
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1/ How contextual cues shape our responses to external stimuli:
2/ How behavioral contagion spawns more than $2T in waste annually in the US alone:
3/ Why “conscious consumption”—voluntary individual energy conservation—matters far more than many think:
4/ Why slower economic growth would heighten the climate threat:
5/ Why taxing meat won’t harm the poor:
6/ Why do businesses erect such ugly signs?
7/ The astonishing power of peer influence:
8/ Behavioral contagion and the impeachment trial:
9/ How Abraham Lincoln anticipated the core premise of UNDER THE INFLUENCE:
10/ A mystery from the happiness Literature:
11/ The mother of all cognitive illusions:
12/ How behavioral contagion creates powerful incentives to cheat:
13/ How behavioral contagion shaped attitudes toward same-sex marriage:
14/ UNDER THE INFLUENCE: PUTTING PEER PRESSURE TO WORK describes simple steps that could harness the prodigious power of behavioral contagion to help solve the most pressing problems we face, chief among them, the climate crisis.
amazon.com/dp/B07XKFLWCT/…
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