• The Developing Architecture of a Child’s Brain

    New science changes how we look at the link between brain development and a child’s environment... more

  • Arts and Community

    The arts thrive best with broad public support, but for that to happen people need to see the arts as a public good... more

  • Sustainable Food Systems

    Most Americans prefer not to look too closely at the damaging and unsustainable aspects of their food supply system... more

  • Public Structures in American Life

    Topos research shows that Americans’ dim view of Government is due in part to a conceptual blindness... more

  • Communicating Climate Change

    Despite decades of news coverage that uses the simplifying idea of a greenhouse effect, most Americans still don’t get it... more

  • Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

    Attitudes about proliferation change when we come to see our own nuclear weapons as a liability rather than an asset... more

  • Privatization

    There are serious consequences when we hand over control of public goods and institutions to private companies... more

Topos Partnership

When traditional tools aren’t enough
The Topos approach is designed to go beyond conventional research and strategy — which has often led advocates to a “plateau” of support that they can’t seem to get beyond — by taking into account the cognitive and cultural foundations of a public interest issue... more

  • Our Approach

    Transforming the landscape of public understanding

    Our Approach

Topos is a wonderful new resource for those who want to better understand change in order to create change for the future. The Topos partners combine seat of the pants cognitive science with unconventional wisdom and innovative public opinion research to create state of the art change.
Lawrence Wallack, Ph.D. Dean, College of Urban and Public Affairs, Portland State University; Emeritus Professor, Public Health, University of California, Berkeley; Co-Founder, The Longview Institute