Recidivism reveals a gap between punishment and rehabilitation. Psychology explains why incarceration alone rarely transforms ...

The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior.A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...

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 ...

How to change behaviors according to psychology The framework here, along with many of the ideas and terms contained herein, comes from James Prochaska, John Norcross, and Carlo DiClemente's book ...

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 ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA)– Have you set a New Year’s resolution? According to a recent Forbes Health/One Poll survey, the average person only sticks with their resolution less than four months into the ...

Ford is putting tens of thousands of white-collar staff on notice, telling them bluntly that their jobs depend on changing how they work. The company has warned that 25,000 U.S. salaried employees ...