Episode 41 with STEPHEN WENDEL: Bits and Bytes and Behavior

Dr. Stephen Wendel is a behavioral scientist who studies financial behavior and how digital products can help individuals manage their money more effectively.  He serves as Head of Behavioral Science at Morningstar, where he leads a team of behavioral scientists and practitioners to conduct original research on saving and investment behavior.  Stephen has authored three books on applied behavioral science, Designing for Behavior Change, Improving Employee Benefits, and Spiritual Design, and founded the non-profit Action Design Network, educating the public on how to apply behavioral research to product development with monthly events in twelve cities. He has two wonderful kids, who don’t care about behavioral science at all.

Important links

• Say hi 👋 to Steve:

  Website and book | LinkedIn | Twitter | Action Design Network |

• Designing for Behavior Change

• Designing for Behavior Change - Workbook

• Why You Should Pay Attention to Behavioral Data Science

• Scaling Nudges with Machine Learning

• Data Science at Scale: A Conversation with Uber’s Fran Bell

• Intel and Data Science

• Positive and Normative Economic Statements

• Morningstar Behavioral Science

• Epistemic Humility - Knowing Your Limits in a Pandemic

• The Behavioral Scientist’s Ethics Checklist

• The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves