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A recent study reports that the growing "climate crisis" is fundamentally a human behavioral crisis that needs behavioral solutions. The study authors argue that too much emphasis is placed on ...

Over the past three decades, the video game industry has distilled the neurochemical recipe for changing human behavior at scale. By honing these neuroscience-based design techniques, the video game ...

Failure avoidance has a bigger influence on changing human behavior than previously understood. Your brain holds a secret. There’s something in there that controls the keys to your behavior. It also ...

Sandra Matz is a computational social scientist, and a professor at Columbia Business School, where she also serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Technology and Human Performance. She is ...

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How psychology helps us describe, explain, predict, and change behavior Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW Human behavior is complex and sometimes confusing, and that's why we have psychology to help us make ...

If a campaign makes its supporters feel defeated or that their vote is pointless, then apathy and low turnout ensue. As an expert in predicting and changing human behavior, my years of research on the ...

For centuries, rats have thrived in cities because of human behavior. In response, humans have blamed the rats and developed techniques for poisoning them. We research urban rat populations and ...

Rural Alaskan and Canadian communities are trying to get along with the large mammals Lesley Evans Ogden, Knowable Magazine Treading carefully through yellowing aspen forest in southeastern British ...