«How can you design for people if you don’t know history and psychology? You can’t. Because your mathematical formulas may be perfect, but the people will screw it up. And if that happens, it means you screwed it up.» Jack Thorne in «The Lost World» by Michael Crichton A few days ago, someone I follow on Twitter pointed to this article: Bavel, J. J. V., Baicker, K., Boggio, P. S., Capraro, V., Cichocka, A., Cikara, M., Crockett, M. J., Crum, A. J., Douglas, K. M., Druckman, J. N., Drury, J., Dube, O., Ellemers, N., Finkel, E. J., Fowler, J. H., Gelfand, M., Han, S., Haslam, S. A., Jetten, J., … Willer, R. (2020). Using social and behavioural science to support COVID-19 pandemic response. Nature Human Behaviour, 4(5), 460–471. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0884-z And asked whether anyone would change their behavior or policy recommendations due to its recommendations. The article is relatively short and freely available, so you might want to check it out for yourself first. Reading it, I’m taken aback by the state of psychology today. On the one hand, I agree that psychology does have theories that can help people deal better with crises. I’m not talking about psychotherapy — and [...]
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