Despite having good intentions, good habits can be hard to make. Thankfully, behavioral science teaches us how to actually ...

People often compare themselves to others and question their own drive, yet what looks like motivation may not mean what it ...

Humans and animals share a remarkable capacity to sense when others are in distress and respond with comforting behavior. But the motivation for doing so, and why it sometimes breaks down, has been ...

I recently attended a meeting where they handed out cards to each person. Arriving at my seat, I read the card, saying, "What's the one thing in life that you have almost given up on?" This question ...

I first started working with children diagnosed with autism in the 1970s when the incidence was around 1 or 2 in every 10,000 children. It was a rare condition, and most children were ...

Because there’s no generally accepted definition of what a streak is, I started by trying to define the phenomenon. Based on input from people maintaining streaks and how streaks are described in the ...

With the global expansion of financial incentives to promote behavior change, they are being considered in One Health ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

A major function of leaders is to help inspire and motivate followers to execute the goals of the team or collective. Psychologists have studied motivation for well over a century. As a result, we ...