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

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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 ...

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 ...

Today, her research delves into the science of how to change your life, from why some days seem to inspire us to start a new ...