BCFG’s Bi-Annual Report Is Here! Learn More About Our Key Achievements in 2023 & 2024
BCFG 2023 & 2024 in Review
We are excited to share our bi-annual report, which highlights our latest efforts to advance the science of behavior change for good at scale. We are deeply grateful to our BCFG Team Scientists, staff, funders, and partners for making our work possible!
Spring Keynote Events in CHIBE Research Seminar Series
BCFG is co-hosting two keynote events as part of the Center for Health Incentives & Behavioral Economics (CHIBE) Spring Research Seminar Series on behavioral science and health. BCFG Co-Director Katy Milkman will co-host these two events. The first event will take place from 12-1 pm ET on Zoom on 3/26 featuring Yale Sociology Professor Nicholas Christakis, and the second event will take place from 12-1 pm ET on Zoom on 4/30 featuring Harvard Economics Professor Raj Chetty. Please mark your calendar!
To register for other talks in this fantastic series featuring BCFG Team Scientists Rachel Gershon (UC Berkeley), Justin Sydnor (Wisconsin-Madison), and Hengchen Dai (UCLA), visit the CHIBE website. To watch a recording of the Fall keynote we co-hosted featuring Supreet Kaur (UC Berkeley), visit our YouTube channel.
Selected New Journal Articles from BCFG Team Scientists
Does Counting Change What Counts? Quantification Fixation Biases Decision-Making, co-authored by Linda Chang, Erika Kirgios, Sendhil Mullainathan & Katherine Milkman, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Megastudy Testing 25 Treatments to Reduce Antidemocratic Attitudes and Partisan Animosity, co-authored by BCFG Postdoctoral Scholar Jan Voelkel, Jay Van Bavel, Christopher Bryan, David Yeager, David Rand, Robb Willer and ~75 Others, Science
People Judge Others More Harshly After Talking to Bots, co-authored by Kian Siong Tey, Asaf Mazar, Angela Duckworth and Lyle Ungar, PNAS Nexus
Detecting Drivers of Behavior at an Early Age: Evidence from a Longitudinal Field Experiment, co-authored by Marco Castillo, John List, Ragan Petrie and Anya Samek, Journal of Political Economy
Spotlighted Podcasts
When Harry Met Sally, hosted by Eli Finkel and Paul Eastwick, The Love Factually Podcast
You Share Your Gut Microbiome with Your Friends, featuring Nicholas Christakis, Science Friday
What Makes an Idea Interesting, hosted by Angela Duckworth and Mike Maughan, No Stupid Questions