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A how-to guide for setting better goals
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. By Aline Holzwarth We often hold vague notions about what we want to do for our health. You might say you want to exercise more,…
Health, Health Management, Eating, Exercise / OCTOBER 23 2018
Implementing our Best Intentions
This post originally appeared on the Pattern Health blog. “If I am parking, then I will park in the spot farthest from my destination.” “If I wake up tomorrow morning, then I will put…
Health, Health Management / OCTOBER 16 2018
Using Social Norm Marketing Tactics for Effective Health Communications
This post originally appeared on the Envolve Blog. In a world filled with misinformation, it’s tempting to design health campaigns that correct false beliefs. Many educational campaigns attempt to do so by first stating…
Health, Health Management, Medical Decision-Making / OCTOBER 11 2018
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Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab
Now Accepting Applications for the CAH Startup Lab Dan Ariely’s Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke is now accepting applications for its second cohort of the Startup Lab, which begins October 2016. Health and…
Saving By Spending
This week, I visited a camera store to order two enlarged prints as a gift. I don’t order photo prints very often; in fact, I’m not sure that I have ever ordered prints aside…
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…
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…