Motivating patients to make lasting lifestyle changes is one of medicine’s biggest challenges; health coaching can improve patient outcomes and reduce provider burnout.

This course gives students frameworks and tools for (i) understanding what motivates people and (ii) designing incentive systems, broadly defined, that motivate employees and others associated with an ...

Our lab conducts research on the interplay of motivational and cognitive processes in human behavior. We examine the role of cognitive processes in self-regulation and achievement behavior. Examples ...

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, freelancer, or manager, there’s no underestimating the power of motivation. Motivation is what energizes, maintains, and controls your behavior against internal ...

The research in our lab focuses on understanding how basic motivations and social biases shape the way we perceive and interact with others. To this aim, we look at the neural and cognitive processes ...

As physicians, we know that many of the most common diseases could be prevented—or even reversed—through sustained behavior change. Behavior change is far more complex than medical adherence ...

By studying how activating the brain's 'serotonin center' affects awake animals for the first time, they found that serotonin from the DRN activates brain areas that affect behavior and motivation.