Media Appearances

Dr. Norbert Schwarz

Happiness

• Neue Zuercher Zeitung Wir Erlebnisverweigerer
• USC News “Oh happy day! Or was it?”

Consumer Behavior

• Huffington Post: Hungry? Maybe don’t go shopping
• The New Yorker: The good, the bad and the Hangry
• The New Yorker: When products talk
• Pymnts: “Hungry Customers buy more stuff (not just food)
• USC News: Binder clip anyone?

Metaphors

• NYMag: Here is not what to say to someone with cancer
• Pacific Standard: Smelling Something Fishy Makes People More Suspicious
• USC News: Something’s literally fishy: Study finds fish smell makes us suspicious

Judging Truth

• • The Conversation: Vaccines back in the headlines – here’s what the experts say
  • The Conversation: The media fuels vaccination myths—by trying to correct them
  • New York Times: A Superhero Power for Our Time: How to Handle the Truth
  • Slate: The Science of Truthiness
  • USC Dornsife Mag: How can national leaders reap the benefits of science and critical thinking?
  • Washington Post: Democracy requires trust, but Trump is making us all conspiracy theorists.

Dr. Daphna Oyserman

Thinking about the Future

• The Atlantic: The mechanics of preventing procrastination
• BYU Radio: Achieving Goals, Immediate Gratification, Climbing Everest
• Business Insider: 10 Research-backed Ways to Beat Procrastination for Good.
• Chartered Management Institute: 12 Productivity Hacks all Managers Need
• Chartered Management Institute: Brain training to get your team performing better
• CNBC: How to save more money: Think in days, not years
• The Conversation: Do Challenges make school seem impossible or worthwhile?
• Huffington Post: Are you a procrastinator? Scientists say this brain hack can help you meet your goals
• New Scientist: How can I make myself more motivated?
• NPR: Future Self
• NZZ News: Nicht nur am Jahreswechsel: Die Zukunft beginnt besser in sieben Tagen als in einer Woche

School & College

• The Atlantic: Where Kids Learn More Outside Their Classrooms Than in Them
• Brookings: Improving community college completion rates by addressing structural and motivational barriers
• Brookings: 5 ways to boost community college completion rates
• The Conversation: Do challenges make school seem impossible or worthwhile?
• The Conversation: Can people ‘like me’ go to college? Inequality and dreams of higher ed
• Harvard Family Research Project: Evaluation of the School to Jobs Programme
• National Geographic:Why are kids destroying school property for digital ‘likes’?</a

Culture and Identity

• Eureka Alerts: “Cultural blunders make people better thinkers”
• Inverse: Why Santa Claus makes you smarter on Halloween: Moments of dissonance force us out of autopilot mode
• KCRW: Why Angelenos are still gathering as COVID cases rise
• Scientific American: “Cultural Goofs Gear up Gray Matter”

Overcoming Adversity

• Asian Scientist: Overcoming childhood adversity with a plan
• Daily Caller: Clothing Bearing Native American Logos Banned at Madison Schools
• NPR: A child who feels left behind can still get ahead
• USC News: For children overcoming adversity, dreaming big isn’t enough — they need a plan

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