Want your users to trust your product? It’s not just about the “fun” stuff like giving your product a personality, showing value quickly, and letting […]
Design Tactics to Foster Trust
How do you build technology that people trust? The world gives us so many examples why we shouldn’t trust technology. Many Americans recently had their […]
What’s So Scary About GMOs? Science Says: Nothing.
In general, I try not to share my political opinions on social media or anywhere else where it might disrupt from the type of interaction […]
Pandora’s Siren Song
One of the areas where sophisticated algorithms and deep databases have made particular inroads is in personalized music streaming services. There are a number of […]
The So-Far Wasted Potential of Big Data
Big data has been a very hot topic in both technology and behavior science for some time now. People quickly grasp the possibilities big data […]
Replication, Validity, and the File Drawer Problem in Psychological Research
Like many psychologists, I was dismayed to see the results of a recent study that attempted to replicate 100 different psychology studies, and managed to […]
Case Study: Asking the Right Question About Sex on an HRA
In my previous job, one of the types of products I worked on was health risk assessments (HRAs). These tools are used by health plans, […]
Research Methods Matter: The Case of Coffee and Productivity
As an undergraduate studying psychology, I dreaded my required research methods classes. Years later as a graduate student instructor, I saw the same lack of […]
Musings on Replication Studies
In the past decade or so, there’s been an increased focus in psychology, and especially in social psychology, to replicate studies. The basic idea is […]
A Simple Secret to Improve Your Running (Or Anything Else)
What if I told you there’s a nearly free, fairly simple way to become a better runner (or swimmer, or biker, or whatever it is […]