Researcher Katy Milkman explains science-backed ways to commit to your goals, including a hack called “temptation bundling.” ...

Want to change your behavior? How about your consumers’ behavior? A new Georgetown study reveals how overlooked cues are the ...

The catchphrase of one of my all-time favorite television characters, Dr. Gregory House, is “people don’t change.” If House is right, does that mean all of us who do intervention science are chasing ...

Most of us have an inner dialogue, that little voice in our heads that crystallizes what we think about what’s happening ...

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 ...

Understanding, predicting, and changing behavior is the holy grail of managers, politicians, and academics alike. I sat down with eminent social psychologist Prof Saadi Lahlou of the London School of ...

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 ...

1. Reduce friction. Make the desired behavior easier than the old one. Adjust meeting practices, deadlines, and norms to support new routines. 2. Shape environments. When the cues around people ...

"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 ...