Bridging the Gap Between Behavioral Science & Policy | BSPA

Welcome to BG or better known as behavioral grooves. I'm Kurt and I'm Tim. And this is a special episode because we are getting to explore an association founded to bring policymakers along with academic researchers into the same room. And it's called BSPA. which stands for the Behavioral Science and Policy Association.

And now, this was founded back in 2013 by Sim Sitkin from Duke University and Craig Fox from UCLA. They are both researchers who believe that there is a gulf or was a gulf between academics and policymakers that no one was crossing. Yeah, so the academic research that Craig and Sim were doing had lots of real-world implications, but there was no bridge for the researchers to carry their ideas to the policymakers. So Sim and Craig set out to change that.

So why are we talking about them now? Why is this important now? There's a few reasons. First, um, Sim and Craig are stepping down after 13 plus years. Uh, they're making way for a new executive director to take the reins.

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