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Make plans, not resolutions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your new year’s resolution is very likely to fail. Most do. Resolutions are just not built to succeed. They rely on willpower, hoping…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, Health, Motivation / DECEMBER 31 2018
How Behavioral Science Can Promote Hand-washing Behavior
With urban migration on the rise, cities are not only facing an increased influx of people, but they also have to find solutions to many of its consequences: lack of infrastructure, housing shortage and…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology, World / OCTOBER 10 2018
Be a Good Friend, Channel Your Inner-Child
As a parent and a therapist, I hear a LOT about people’s social lives and close relationships. People (adults and kids) talk about their peer relationships much more than anything else, because our lives…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / SEPTEMBER 12 2018
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Using Social Norms to Increase Donations
Research conducted with: Ting Jiang, Judd B. Kessler, Greg Segal, Dan Ariely If you are like most people, there is a good chance your behavior is based on what you think others are doing….
If social media is bringing you down, you’re probably not doing it right.
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Social media is everywhere, and shows no signs of slowing down. There are now more monthly active Facebook users in the world…
Twitter-vention: What Behavioral Science Says About Impulse Tweeting
Are you too impulsive for your own good? Do you frequently find yourself angrily tweeting at 2am, posting things you later regret enough to erase? You may want to log out of Twitter and…
Common Cents Lab Unveils Millennial Financial Regret Spending Report
New report seeks to measure whether spending can make you happy San Francisco, CA and Durham, NC – Sept. 12, 2017 – Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University supported by…