Taking the realms of business, finance and economic history by storm, polycrisis captures complexity an increasingly uncertain world in a state flux transition. Proponents model, such as prominent historian Financial Times contributing editor Adam Tooze, propose marker our age, capturing overlapping interconnected crises beyond cause effect. In his article, authors offer some prompts for consid...

Obesity rates have doubled in the last forty years, and a major cause is the consumption of sugarsweetened beverages. In this paper, we identify channels through which information – about health benefits or taste affects beverage choice. We conduct a field experiment in a school lunchroom with 2,500 children, evaluating the impact of informational prompts on beverage choice and consumption over...

Many good causes are paid effectively from the interest on a large sum of money endowed by the original benefactor. This is true for a wide range of prizes including the Nobel prizes, and for a number of agencies funding scientific research, including the Londonbased Wellcome Trust. With the ongoing crisis of the stockmarkets, some of these agencies, including the Wellcome Trust, may be forced ...

Two studies documented and evaluated parental scaffolding of 3and 4-year-olds' spatial communication. In Study 1, children gave directions to parents about locations of objects. Three-year-olds gave ambiguous directions more often than 4-year-olds, and parents used directive prompts more often with 3-year-olds than 4-year-olds, Study 2 compared the effectiveness of parental prompts in a control...

We examined whether typically developing preschoolers could learn to use a problem-solving strategy that involved self-prompting with intraverbal chains to provide multiple responses to intraverbal categorization questions. Teaching the children to use the problem-solving strategy did not produce significant increases in target responses until problem solving was modeled and prompted. Following...