{"id":707,"date":"2015-09-16T14:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=707"},"modified":"2015-09-16T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:56:54","slug":"executive-order-using-behavioral-science-insights-to-better-serve-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2015\/09\/16\/executive-order-using-behavioral-science-insights-to-better-serve-the-american-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Order: Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday President Obama issued an\u00a0Executive Order, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2015\/09\/15\/executive-order-using-behavioral-science-insights-better-serve-american\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0The first paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights &#8212; research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them &#8212; can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Economics and psychology are both in the SJSU College of Social Sciences, along with ten other disciplinary or interdisciplinary departments, so we&#8217;ll definitely answer the call of using behavioral sciences in service of the American people. As I discussed in a July post, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/2015\/07\/17\/the-importance-of-the-social-sciences\/\" target=\"_blank\">social sciences are important<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday President Obama issued an\u00a0Executive Order, &#8220;Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0The first paragraph: A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights &#8212; research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them &#8212; can be used to design government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29098],"tags":[1270,29102,3504],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sjsu-social-sciences","tag-social-change","tag-social-science-research","tag-social-structure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}