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Changing Habits for the Long Haul
Psychology researchers present cutting-edge science that may help us adopt newer, healthier, or safer behaviors.
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Breaking Free From Bad Behaviors
Many people try their best to eat healthy and exercise regularly. Others strive to be good environmental stewards, cutting down their usage of electricity and water. And still others intend to treat everyone fairly, regardless
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Power Suits: How Dressing For Success At Work Can Pay Off
NPR: What does it mean to “dress for success”? Certainly not what it meant when a book by that name first came out in 1975. Now, what to wear to work is a murky area
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Investigating Social Contagion With Digital Tools
Accumulating research provides evidence for a provocative idea that certain behaviors — such as smoking and eating habits — are contagious. Data suggest that we’re influenced not only by the behavior of our friends, family
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A New Way to Beat the Market: Invest in Workplace Wellness
In 1979, Jim Burke the chief executive of Johnson & Johnson started a state-of-the-art workplace wellness program in order to improve employee wellbeing and cut healthcare costs. The program’s goal was to make Johnson &
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We’ve Got Resolutions All Wrong
NPR: This weekend, Facebook’s “Memories” reminded me of a post from Jan. 2, 2009: “Tania Lombrozo is generating New Year’s resolutions…that look a lot like last year’s.” I could, unfortunately, post the same again today.