Below are links to selected media features of my work.
2026
“The Sciencewashing of Everyday Life”
2025
“Interview with Neil Lewis, ‘Dreaming About (and Mobilizing to Create) Equitable Futures'”
2024
I was featured in the documentary Divisible — a documentary that focuses on the history and current impacts of redlining in the United States.
“The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Behavior”
2023
“Why staff loyalty is not always a good thing”
2022
“Faculty Diversification Must Accelerate, Report Says”
“At This Rate, Faculty Diversity Will Never Reach Parity”
“These Psychologists Want to Put Societal Problems at the Center of Research. Here’s Why”
“America Created Its Own Booster Problem”
“The Subtle Psychology of ‘Nudging’ During a Pandemic”
“Calling Omicron ‘Mild’ Is Wishful Thinking”
2021
“You’re Boosted! Now What?”
“A Better Name for Booster Shots”
“Vaccines Are Like Sunscreen… No, Wait, Airbags… No, Wait…”
“Cornell experts working to increase vaccine acceptance”
2020
“How Science Beat the Virus (And what it lost in the process)”
“COVID-19 is not the great equalizer; it’s hitting black communities hardest.”
“The Problem That Psychology Can’t Shake: Ten years after a seminal paper laid bare psychology’s white, affluent, Western skew, not much has change.”
2019
“Disadvantaged Students and Higher Education”
“The Adults Who Treat Reading Like Homework”
2018
“Mobile communication lab lets any person participate in any study”
2017
“In Retirement, It’s Save Now or Pay (a Lot) Later”
2016
“The Truth Behind Why We Procrastinate”
2015
“The Mechanics of Preventing Procrastination”
“You Have Just 14,600 Days to Save for Your Pension”
Neil Lewis, Jr. 