Three tips to achieve your New Year's resolutions

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Julie Cook Kitchener Jan 6, 2025 13:34 pm
Hi all,    Now that 2024 has come to a close and we’re off to a fresh start in 2025, some of you may be thinking about your New Year’s resolutions. Award-winning behavioral scient…

Rare's Levers of Behaviour Change Framework

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Julie Cook Kitchener Jul 29, 2024 13:00 pm
Hi all,    Rare’s Centre for Behavior & the Environment has published a framework that includes six behavioural levers to apply when leading behaviour change campaigns.  They exp…

What Can We Learn from Failed Attempts to Change People's Behaviour?

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Julie Cook Kitchener Nov 4, 2020 22:35 pm
Hi everyone, A new article was published recently in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, which catalogues different types of failures in behaviour change programs as well as backfiring…

“It’s how you say it: Systematic A/B testing of digital messaging cut hospital no-show rates”

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Liz Foote Maui Oct 23, 2020 4:01 am
I’m sharing a recent article published in PLOSOne about a study carried out in Israel that investigated the effect of different messaging strategies on no-shows and appointment ca…

Amsterdam installs sustainable urinals to combat "wild peeing"

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Liz Foote Maui Oct 4, 2020 5:40 am
Well this is …different! Apparently public urination has been a big problem in Amsterdam, and it has now been addressed by an environmental psychologist, Richard De Vries, who inv…

Creating Citizen Choice Architects

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Julie Cook Kitchener Sep 30, 2020 20:44 pm
Hi everyone, Perhaps many of you are familiar with 'nudges', those positive, gentle actions that persuade people to engage in particular behaviours (e.g. setting healthy food at …

Behavioural Science Toolkit for Physical Distancing and People Movement

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Liz Foote Maui Sep 2, 2020 2:41 am
As described in this article, the firm The Behavioural Architects has released a free resource to help with physical distancing and people movement, specifically the behaviors of …

Behavioural Science around the World: A World Bank Report

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Julie Cook Kitchener Aug 18, 2020 15:45 pm
Hi everyone, Last year, the World Bank published a report entitled "Behavioral science around the world: Profiles of 10 countries". They provide details on what these 10 countrie…

“Accurate, Honest and Transparent: How Leaders Should Communicate about Coronavirus”

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Liz Foote Maui Jul 9, 2020 11:27 am
As someone who watched NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefings pretty religiously, I enjoyed reading this opinion piece from Australia about how leaders should comm…

"How to Nudge a Coronavirus Nonbeliever"

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Liz Foote Maui Jul 9, 2020 9:24 am
I came across this article by Cass Sunstein (“Nudge”) about the role of personal identity surrounding the issue of mask-wearing (or lack thereof…). It references the iconic “Don’t…

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