Large language models (LLMs), built on artificial intelligence (AI) – such as Open AI’s GPT-4 (which power ChatGPT) and Google’s Gemini – are breakthrough technologies that can read, summarize, and ...

Whether you want to change your own behavior or your customers’, or encourage a loved one or employee toward change, the internet is not short of suggestions. There are a million and one articles and ...

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

Suppose you want to eat healthier, exercise more, or avoid getting in arguments with your partner. Each of these requires behavior change, but changing behavior can be challenging. An important first ...

Growing acceptance of applied behavioral science in public policy and organizational decision-making has resulted in ambitions to go beyond nudging, particularly following developments in new ...

According to the Josh Bersin Company, only 25% of companies report that their leadership development programs significantly improve business performance. Another way to say that: three-fourths of CEOs ...

Este articulo también está disponible en español. In 1968, Stanford Research Institute scientists Elmer Robinson and R.C. Robbins produced a landmark study for the trade association American Petroleum ...

Operant conditioning is a theory that explains how behaviors are influenced by their consequences or results. It’s often used today to help people adopt new behaviors or change old habits. If you’ve ...

Contingency management (CM) is a behavioral therapy technique that encourages beneficial behaviors by giving rewards or positive reinforcement. CM incentivizes certain behaviors and discourages ...

Today’s most effective campaigns do more than capture attention; they create lasting impact. This is the power of behavior change marketing (BCM), a strategic (and scientific) approach that goes ...

Behavior change is a powerful but underused tool in wildlife conservation. While widely applied in public health and development, its potential to tackle harmful behaviors to wildlife—such as ...

Ask most conservationists to talk about their impact, and you’ll hear stories of forests protected, of species saved, or of new technologies making a difference. But if you take a step back from those ...