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 ...

Narcissists avoid shame at all costs because it destabilizes their identity. Admitting fault triggers emotional collapse ...

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 ...

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 ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA)– Have you set a New Year’s resolution? According to a recent Forbes Health/One Poll survey, the average person only sticks with their resolution less than four months into the ...

A randomized trial found an online behaviour change intervention did not increase physical activity in adults with asthma, ...

Wearable devices aiming to help people improve their health behaviors may not be driving change, according to an op-ed published in The Journal of the American Medical Association. The authors present ...