How Psychology Helped Me Recognize Toxic Tech
One thing coronavirus has exposed more broadly is the importance of (good) ethics in tech and design. There have been people raising the alarm about …
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Designing for Financial Behavior: FxD 2018 Panel Recap
It’s easy for financial experts to say what people should do to achieve financial well-being. We can rattle off rules of thumb like: contribute enough to your …
Believing In Behavior Change Means Believing People Can Change
I suppose this post is politically motivated, although I’ll try to leave the actual politics out so as to not obscure my point by putting …
Moral Issues in Designing for Behavior Change
The big thing on my mind right now is preparing for my presentation at SXSW next Saturday. My J&J colleague and pal Raphaela O’Day and …
So, Does Facebook Influence Users or Not? (Yes, It Does)
Two days after the election, Mark Zuckerberg said the following at a meeting in California: “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, …
How Much Can We Personalize Job Rewards Without Being Unfair?
I recently read the book The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael D. Watkins. It was recommended to …
Knocked to the Bottom of the Pyramid
I had big plans this week. I was going to log some major running miles, get ahead of my blog posting, run all manner of errands, …
When Is a Reward Coercion? The Case of Workplace Wellness Programs
Given my former line of business working on digital wellness programs for employees and health plan members, I’ve tended to have a positive spin on …
Facebook announces new research guidelines
Three months after inciting the ire of researchers and users with their stealth emotional manipulation study, Facebook has announced a revised research policy. The new …
Facebook’s Informed Consent Problem
You’ve undoubtedly heard by now about Facebook’s large scale emotion manipulation study, conducted on their site users. The study, published in the Proceedings of the …