Praise and rewards can be an effective way to change kids' behavior for the better. Here's how to use them.

The catchphrase of one of my all-time favorite television characters, Dr. Gregory House, is “people don’t change.” If House is right, does that mean all of us who do intervention science are chasing ...

Positive reinforcement is a type of positive discipline that aims to shape behavior by focusing on the good while reframing ...

Starting and sticking with a healthy lifestyle is tough. It's a complex proposition with multiple dimensions. There are the challenges associated with behavior change and the difficulty of altering ...

The EAST framework captures more than a decade’s worth of science on how to actually change people’s behavior. Whether you want to change your own behavior or your customers’, or encourage a loved one ...

Understanding, predicting, and changing behavior is the holy grail of managers, politicians, and academics alike. I sat down with eminent social psychologist Prof Saadi Lahlou of the London School of ...

Medicaid/CHIP surveillance demonstrated an 11.4% relative rise in pediatric diabetes prevalence, including a 24.3% increase in type 2 diabetes, with disparities by geography, sex, and region.

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 ...