Suppose you want to eat healthier, exercise more, or avoid getting in arguments with your partner. Each of these requires behavior change, but changing behavior can be challenging. An important first ...

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 ...

The trajectories and predictors of childhood behavior problems remain unclear, this study aims to examine this research topic using nine waves of data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study. A ...

Whether you want to change your own behavior or your customers’, or encourage a loved one or employee toward change, the internet is not short of suggestions. There are a million and one articles and ...

Behavior change is a powerful but underused tool in wildlife conservation. While widely applied in public health and development, its potential to tackle harmful behaviors to wildlife—such as ...

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Good habits are at the core of healthy lifestyles. Finding the motivation to act and then moving from unhealthy practices to more positive routines focused on diet and exercise is a common pathway.

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable and treatable disease characterized by persistent and progressive restrictions on air circulation 1. Over 90% of people with COPD ...

Today’s most effective campaigns do more than capture attention; they create lasting impact. This is the power of behavior change marketing (BCM), a strategic (and scientific) approach that goes ...