Behavioural science is brilliant at choice architecture: small cues, defaults, friction, salience. But in industry applications, it often gets over-indexed on the moment and under-indexed on the ...

Sarah Mitroff has worn many hats at CNET, including Senior Mobile Editor and Managing Editor of Health and Wellness. Currently, she is a freelance editor. Throughout her career, she's written about ...

"GMA" conducts a behavior lab to see how subtle changes affect our decisions. March 20, 2009 — -- A simple, sometimes unknowing suggestion can alter human behavior dramatically. That's the theory ...

As a long-time fitness tracker user, one of my greatest challenges has been extracting good insights about the data I’m generating every day. It’s easy to tell how many hours I’ve been sleeping, or ...

Sometimes all it takes is a little nudge to get your kids living healthier. May 15, 2009 — -- It's the age-old question: How do you get your kids to put down the burger and pick up the carrot ...

A little nudge, in this a case a decision aid issued through the electronic health record (EHR), can help bolster statin prescriptions for eligible patients, researchers found. When combined with a ...