Leverage Research

Introspection - over the past decade, leverage studied psychology, a field mired in a replication crisis. Our hypothesis has been, and continues to be, that introspection is a promising research method and can provide the foundation for fruitful efforts to better understand people. Our exploratory psychology program is an attempt to use an introspection-centric approach to understanding people. We believe that the creation and distribution of useful tools for introspection have the potential to advance our understanding of people and to help individuals generate beneficial self-knowledge. We provide introspective tools such as belief reporting and charting, collaborate with other practitioners and developers of introspective tools, and provide training to researchers on how to use introspection to study the mind effectively and safely. Our goal is to develop and distribute introspective methods that could serve as the foundation for developing a new subfield of introspection research.

Bottlenecks - science and technology have the potential to empower humanity with new knowledge and new tools with which to improve the world around us. Yet, scientific institutions are frequently not as functional as society needs them to be. Even as the number of researchers and amount of money spent on research increases, in many places, fields simply aren't making fast enough progress. By combining our understanding of science and people, we aim to discern and address the social and institutional, not just technical, obstacles to progress across a variety of fields-such as geothermal, supersonic flight, and psychology-and coordinate efforts to overcome them. Our bottlenecks program consists of both events and research. The events provide a venue for bringing together researchers, funders, and project leaders to think and talk about where the real bottlenecks are, and our publications communicate the conclusions we reach.