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Why This New Year’s Will Be Different: How Behavioral Science Can Help You Keep Your Resolution
A version of this post originally appeared on the Envolve Blog. The holiday season is a beloved time across America when we fill our houses with family, friends and laughter, and fill our bellies…
Health, Health Management, Eating, Exercise / DECEMBER 20 2018
Birds of a feather don’t just flock together. They also influence each other’s behavior.
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth Your beliefs don’t always predict your behavior While it’s true that your beliefs may spur action when you’re particularly passionate about something…
Health, Health Management / NOVEMBER 19 2018
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…
Health, Health Management / NOVEMBER 1 2018
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Digital Health’s Secret Weapon: Behavioral Science
By Aline Holzwarth Article originally appeared in HealthTech magazine. Read the full article here. With the ubiquity of smartphones, and the fact that everyone (including your grandma) carries their devices with them everywhere, we also carry…
The Mbrella Calendar: Helping Kenyan Families Track Their Savings for Health Insurance
Mbrella is a charitable organization devoted to helping impoverished Kenyan families buy health insurance. Mbrella connects donors with Kenyan mothers and employs a number of behavioral interventions meant to help the mother gain enough…
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…
Help us improve email
Dear friends, In thinking about how to improve email (something that gives us both joy and stress), I’d like to ask for your help. I’m trying to understand how people use email and what…