Teaching

How to Nudge: Using Social Psychology and Decision Science to Change Behavior and Policy (Harvard University)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

How do you get people to waste less energy, save more money, and eat healthier? How do you encourage people to vote, stay in school, and drive safer? In this course you will learn relevant social psychology and decision science, as well as a promising new methodology useful for motivating and nudging people’s behaviors to reduce or solve specific problems in organizations and society. By succeeding in this class you will gain identifiable skills that are applicable beyond the classroom (e.g., to improve programs and policies), in a variety of settings (e.g., health, law, public policy,...

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The Psychology of Well-being (Harvard University)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2015

This course will critically examine the nature of well-being, happiness and the good life. This course will cover a range of topics such as: optimal functioning, strengths, values, interests, mindfulness, physical health, and happiness. Through group and class discussions, involved exercises, projects, videos, and review of journal articles, students will: (i) gain an understanding of well-being related concepts, (ii) learn to think critically and analytically about issues related to positive psychology, (iii) experience the effects of applying well-being related principles on your own...

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How to Nudge: Using Social Psychology and Decision Science to Change Behavior and Policy (Harvard University)

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2014

How do you get people to waste less energy, save more money, and eat healthier? How do you encourage people to vote, stay in school, and drive safer? In this course you will learn relevant social psychology and decision science, as well as a promising new methodology useful for motivating and nudging people’s behaviors to reduce or solve specific problems in organizations and society. By succeeding in this class you will gain identifiable skills that are applicable beyond the classroom (e.g., to improve programs and policies), in a variety of settings (e.g., health, law, public policy,...

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Psychology for Public Policy (Princeton University/Woodrow Wilson School)

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2014

The course examines how basic concepts from behavioral research in social psychology and judgment and decision making can shape policy formulation and implementation. Central themes include a detailed analysis of human judgment and decision making, how a variety of motives affect people’s choices, and the forces that cause changes in attitudes and behavior. Combined, these topics have important implications for policy design that affects individuals as well as the functioning of the organizations that determine those policies. Lecture material is drawn primarily from psychological research...

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