Suppose you want to eat healthier, exercise more, or avoid getting in arguments with your partner. Each of these requires behavior change, but changing behavior can be challenging. An important first ...

"In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true within certain limits, to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are beliefs to be ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

Starting and sticking with a healthy lifestyle is tough. It's a complex proposition with multiple dimensions. There are the challenges associated with behavior change and the difficulty of altering ...

Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health ...

During the pandemic, arming the C-suite with employee data was never more critical. Executives needed insights on employee health, well-being and sentiment to make fast decisions since working ...

The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior. A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...

Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

Over the past three decades, the video game industry has distilled the neurochemical recipe for changing human behavior at scale. By honing these neuroscience-based design techniques, the video game ...

Behavioral change is essential in healthcare, especially with the influx of advances and technologies the promise to transform the system. But how should hospitals go about motivating change? BJ Fogg, ...