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 …
research methods
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …