Chronic Pain Management: What Research Shows About an Undertreated Condition
Chronic pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. Research on its causes, its consequences, and what treatments a...
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Evidence-Based Policy: What It Means and Why It Is Hard
The idea that policy should be guided by evidence is widely endorsed and frequently violated. This piece examines what evidence-based policy actually ...
Class Size: What the Research Says and Why It Matters for Policy
Class size reduction is popular with parents and teachers but expensive. The research on its effects is more nuanced than either its advocates or crit...
Resilience: What It Is, What Builds It, and What the Research Shows
Resilience is often talked about as if it were a fixed trait. Research shows it is better understood as a dynamic process shaped by multiple factors a...
Digital Fundraising for Nonprofits: What Works in the Current Landscape
Online giving has grown substantially and transformed nonprofit fundraising. Understanding what the evidence shows about digital fundraising effective...
Grief, Loss, and the Limits of the Five Stages
The stage model of grief is one of the most widely cited frameworks in popular psychology. It is also widely misunderstood and partially contradicted ...
Infrastructure Investment and Economic Returns: What Research Shows About Public Capital
Infrastructure has emerged as rare bipartisan terrain in American politics. Research on how public investment in transportation, broadband, and water ...
Learned Helplessness and Its Applications: From Animal Models to Human Motivation
Seligman's learned helplessness model, derived from animal experiments, illuminated the psychology of depression and motivated a career shift tow...
Social Determinants of Health: Why ZIP Code Predicts Health Outcomes
A person's neighborhood, income, education, and social connections shape their health more powerfully than their access to medical care....
AI Regulation and Ethics: What Research Shows About Governance of Emerging Technology
Artificial intelligence raises governance questions that existing regulatory frameworks are poorly equipped to address. Research on AI risks, bias, an...