Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Feds Boost Behavioral Science

October 2, 2015

 

9/25/15 – In keeping with an exploration in Issues of how the social and behavioral sciences can nudge people in useful directions, President Barack Obama in mid-September issued an executive order calling on all federal agencies to ensure that their policies “reflect behavioral science insights,” adding that such efforts will lead to “substantially improved outcomes for the individuals, families, communities, and businesses those policies serve.” In a related move, the National Science and Technology Council released a report detailing how the government was already using behavioral insights “to strengthen the ways in which federal programs and policies serve the Nation.”