As leaders, coaches, consultants, and change agents, we spend a lot of time at work convincing others to see things our way: We explain the rationale. We share the research. We articulate the vision ...

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 ...

Good habits are at the core of healthy lifestyles. Finding the motivation to act and then moving from unhealthy practices to more positive routines focused on diet and exercise is a common pathway.

A staggering 129 million Americans have at least one major chronic disease—and 90% of our $4.1 trillion in annual health care spending goes toward treating these physical and mental-health conditions.

Large language model-based chatbots can't effectively recognize users' motivation when they are hesitant about making healthy behavior changes, but they can support those who are committed to take ...

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 ...

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, ...