How To Change Human Behavior At Scale

In this course, students will review and critically assess scientific psychological and cognitive research on how situations dictate humans' mindsets and behaviors. This learning will be geared toward applied work to shift how humans think and behave across entire settings (e.g., schools, institutions, workplaces). Students will be responsible for reading and discussing scientific literature on experiments that test relevant topics. Students will also create a grant proposal for a relevant research project to test a method to change human behavior at scale and give an in-person oral presentation about it to the class.