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Amy Bucher, Ph.D.

Applied Behavioral Science for Health and Well-Being

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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 […]

PsychologyPosted on: May 24, 2020May 24, 2020

Every Project Needs Its Own Research

A key part of our process in a behavior change design project is to do a literature review.  We comb the published peer-reviewed literature to […]

PsychologyPosted on: May 9, 2020

Can Context-Bound Research Replicate?

The reproducibility crisis has hit psychology hard.  In writing Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change, I found myself having to double check whether some of the studies […]

Engaged Book , PsychologyPosted on: March 2, 2020

Advice for Field Research From Stephen Colbert

OK, so maybe Stephen Colbert wrote this list of tips for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart interviewers working on field pieces and not people like me […]

PsychologyPosted on: April 12, 2017April 10, 2017

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 […]

PsychologyPosted on: August 31, 2015August 29, 2015

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 […]

PsychologyPosted on: June 1, 2015May 29, 2015
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