At its core, conservation is about behavior change. Yet few organizations have put in place the structure, standards, and ...

Older adults with long-term benzodiazepine receptor agonist use and insomnia diagnosis had significant improvements in sleep outcomes. HealthDay News — A mailed knowledge mobilization and behavior ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 8 (February 23, 2021), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) Personality traits predict important life outcomes, such as ...

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 ...

In 1936, the psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed a deceptively simple idea: Behavior is a function of the person and their environment. He even gave it an equation: B = f(P, E). Your actions are shaped ...

Illegal wildlife trade is a complex issue involving multiple actors, such as poachers, processors, distributors, consumers, policymakers, and law enforcement. Furthermore, defensive and retaliatory ...

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 ...

A recent Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study evaluates the effectiveness of behavioral interventions to reduce distracted driving. Study: A randomized trial of behavioral ...

There is an urgent need for cities to rapidly transform their food, transportation, and energy systems to reduce their environmental impact. By empowering their citizens to adopt more sustainable ...

Personal identity links who we are, once were, and could become. Though seemingly fixed, identity can be modified. Indeed, identity transformation is sometimes necessary, even therapeutic—e.g., to ...