Behavioral Research and Academic Engagement (BRACE)

Have you ever found yourself desperately pressing the "close door" button in an elevator, convinced that your actions are speeding up the process? If so, you’ve experienced the illusion of…

Plato’s allegory of the cave from his work Republic asks us to imagine a group of prisoners chained in a cave whose only view of the outside world is a…

This article is part of Busara’s Tafakari 2025 yearbook. You can download the whole yearbook here. During my earlier days at Busara (more than ten years ago) my job description involved…