Five Best Practices for Digital Badges for Behavior Change
It’s easy to come up with examples of digital badges that don’t work, or are simply too silly to be serious tools for engagement. It’s …
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What’s Different About Designing For Health?
A question I’ve been thinking about more recently is, what makes health behavior change so special? And surprisingly enough for someone who’s spent over a …
Bookworm: My Top 2016 Book Recommendations
Last year I finished 180 books, according to my records on Goodreads. My reading tastes generally lean toward fiction, but include a healthy dollop of …
So, Does Facebook Influence Users or Not? (Yes, It Does)
Two days after the election, Mark Zuckerberg said the following at a meeting in California: “Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook, …
How A Revolutionary War Hero Used Modern Psychology
Sometimes I think the formal study of behavior science is really about putting names and a framework around concepts we already intuitively understand. After all, …
The Good Thing About a Bad Grade
The subject of “bad” grades has been on my mind lately. With many university semesters drawing to a close, I’m watching my friends who teach …
BART Tells It Like It Is: When Corporate Social Media Gets Real
Last week, San Francisco’s public transit system, the BART, experienced electrical problems that negatively impacted service. As people are wont to do, riders flocked to Twitter …
Wendy Bradshaw’s Resignation: In the Absence of Competence Support
This week, the resignation letter of a special education teacher in Florida has gone viral online. Through my friends and relatives who are teachers, and …
How to Describe What I Know: The Appeal (and Frustration) of Psychology
I took my first psychology class in college without really knowing what psychology was or what psychologists did. When I was a first-year student at …
Learning by Experience
When do you know you’ve crossed the line from not knowing to knowing? How do you know when you can do something? I’m not talking …