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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...