by J. Jerrald Hayes | Dec 24, 2017 | • Politics, Behavior, Critical Thinking
A massive new study reviews the evidence on whether campaigning works. The answer’s bleak. All the outreach activity by political campaigns, including door to door canvassing, phone banking, direct mail, and even advertising, has basically no effect on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 21, 2017 | Behavior, Business
Diversity or Meritocracy: Which Is More Important? Look at Wall Street in 2008, and the White House right now. Diversity-of people and cognitive perspectives-is crucial for avoiding...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 11, 2017 | Behavior, Critical Thinking
The five universal laws of human stupidity In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Stupid...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jun 1, 2016 | Behavior, Psychology
10 Most Brilliant Social Psychology Experiments Ten of the most influential social psychology experiments. “I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes...
