There are good reasons to feel like life is working against you, but it is our reactions, the stories we tell ourselves, that ...

One day, my wife and I were driving along in the car through the countryside when, all of a sudden, my wife said “What?!” I replied with “What, what?” She said, “What are you pointing at?” I said “I’m ...

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 ...

Making people feel positive about themselves gets better results than negativity. Here’s a common pattern in my house. See if it seems familiar to you. After my husband showers, he often forgets to ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

Your daily supplements could be changing your behavior, specifically those containing omega-3. Roughly one in 13 American adults takes omega-3-rich fish oil supplements on a semiregular basis, ...

If you want customers to change a behavior, it’s easier to do so in response to a real problem. If not, don’t feel too bad. The “smart” juicing startup collapsed a mere sixteen months after launching, ...

Behavior change is a powerful but underused tool in wildlife conservation. While widely applied in public health and development, its potential to tackle harmful behaviors to wildlife—such as ...