The Waste Game

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 4, 2026 12:33 pm
Hi all, As you develop your programs, you may be looking for online educational tools that impart knowledge on waste prevention and recycling. Waste games are one way to do just t…

How framing behaviors can solve the ecological crisis

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Julie Cook Kitchener Nov 18, 2024 13:58 pm
Hi all,   What if we understood our current ecological crisis as a “Human Behavioral Crisis”? That is how researchers, Merz et al (2023), have described it. In their paper, they a…

Switzerland’s bike to work campaign: Fun, easy, and popular

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Julie Cook Kitchener May 13, 2024 12:41 pm
Hi all,   The social marketing discipline has long held this truism that sustainable behaviours should be fun, easy, and popular. Switzerland’s bike to work campaign is all of tho…

“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…

Behavior Change for Nature: A Behavioral Science Toolkit for Practitioners

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Julie Cook Kitchener Oct 21, 2020 18:04 pm
Hi all, I just lectured about biodiversity loss at the University of Waterloo, and have recently come across a fabulous behaviour change toolkit for practitioners working in the …

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 …

COVID-19 Vaccination Uptake Strategies

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Julie Cook Kitchener Aug 26, 2020 16:23 pm
Hi all, The European Social Marketing Association recently shared an academic paper that was published in July 2020, entitled "Key Guidelines in Developing a Pre-emptive COVID-19…

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…

Curbing Reckless Behaviour in the Face of COVID-19: Moralize It!

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Julie Cook Kitchener Jul 28, 2020 21:28 pm
Hi all, This is an interesting article that advocates for a "moralizing" approach to  behaviour change in the face of COVID-19. Both second hand smoke and drunk driving campaigns…

“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…

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