Most organizations try to change workplace behavior through education, communication campaigns, and training, but these ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The research, conducted at Georgetown University Medical Center, found that “shifting levels of a brain protein called KCC2 can reshape the way cues become linked with rewards, sometimes making habits ...

The EAST framework captures more than a decade’s worth of science on how to actually change people’s behavior. Whether you want to change your own behavior or your customers’, or encourage a loved one ...