The catchphrase of one of my all-time favorite television characters, Dr. Gregory House, is “people don’t change.” If House is right, does that mean all of us who do intervention science are chasing ...

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 ...

Pandemics, global warming, and rampant gun violence are all clear lessons in the need to move large groups of people to change their behavior. When a crisis hits, researchers, policymakers, health ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Hello and happy new year! I love the first few days of a new year. It evokes a feeling ...

Lasting change, therefore, has always been a holy grail of sorts for intervention research, whether we’re talking about study skills, hand washing, diet and exercise, alcohol use, or sleeping habits.