Survey data shows that most people believe climate change is happening, but many don't act, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Annenberg School for Communication Professor Emily Falk's Communication ...

Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Behavioral economics needs biology. How lived experience, emotion, and development shape the choices people make.