Mental Health Stigma: What It Is, What It Does, and How to Reduce It
Stigma remains one of the most significant barriers to mental health care. Understanding its mechanisms is the first step toward effective reduction s...
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Behavior Change: What Psychology Says About Forming and Breaking Habits
Habits are the backbone of daily behavior. Understanding how they form and how they can be changed is one of the most practical applications of psycho...
MOOCs and Open Educational Resources: Research on Access, Completion, and Quality
Massive open online courses promised to democratize higher education. Research on who actually uses MOOCs and whether they improve access challenges e...
The Public Comment Process: How Citizens Can Shape Federal Regulation
Federal agencies are required to accept and consider public input on proposed rules. Most people have no idea this process exists, or how to use it ef...
Population Health: From Individual Care to Community Outcomes
The most effective health interventions may never happen in a clinic. Understanding health at the population level is reshaping what healthcare profes...
Growth Mindset Research: What Studies Show About Intelligence, Effort, and Learning
Growth mindset has become one of the most widely implemented ideas in education. Research on its effects, its limitations, and its implementation reve...
First Generation College Students: What Institutions Owe Them
First generation students navigate college without inherited knowledge of how it works. Institutions that treat this as an individual student's p...
Rural Nonprofits: Research on Capacity, Challenges, and Community Role
Rural nonprofits operate in fundamentally different conditions than their urban counterparts. Research on rural nonprofit capacity reveals the distinc...
Homelessness in the United States: What Research Shows About Causes and Effective Responses
The visible growth of homelessness in American cities has prompted intense policy debate. Research on what causes homelessness and what actually reduc...
Minimum Wage Policy: Navigating the Evidence in a Contested Debate
The economic debate over minimum wage effects is more settled than political discourse suggests, and more nuanced than either side typically acknowle...