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Behavioral science is not for sissies. -- Steven Pinker
[Behavioral tracking] is an area today that has very few regulations and even fewer rules. -- Gary Kovacs
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel. -- Donald A. Norman
Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play. -- John Elkington
Behavioral psychologists have observed that wanting something has a much stronger emotional impact than the pleasure that comes once you have it, or the memory of having had it. -- Michael K. Powell
Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all. -- Edward Boyden
Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to get people to be saving more for retirement. Behavioral economics has helped us learn a lot about how to do that. -- Richard Thaler
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer. -- James Surowiecki
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays. -- Peter R. Grant
Some children may need a behavioral approach, whereas other children may need a sensory approach. -- Temple Grandin
Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. -- B. F. Skinner
All behavioral or mood disorders - including depression, OCD, ADHD and addiction - have some neurochemical components, but sufferers can still work to overcome them. -- Jeffrey Kluger
There are a variety of techniques to help people change the kind of thinking that leads them to become depressed. These techniques are called cognitive behavioral therapy. -- Irving Kirsch
As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see. -- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
I've learned there's a big difference between a long-focused value investor and a good short-seller. That difference is psychological and I think it falls into the realm of behavioral finance. -- James Chanos
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. -- S. Jay Olshansky
Indeed, the best way to think of willpower is not as some shapeless behavioral trait but as a sort of psychic muscle, one that can atrophy or grow stronger depending on how it's used. -- Jeffrey Kluger
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions. -- Harold E. Varmus
A fly with a brain the size of a salt grain has the behavioral repertoire nearly as complex as a much larger animal such as a mouse. That's a super-interesting problem from an engineering perspective. -- Michael Dickinson
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development. -- Darell Hammond
January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday. -- Gabrielle Union
You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. -- Ron Silver
Because of my bipolar disorder, I tend to these mixed states, which are depressed but loud and agitated. So I can be terribly irritable. I go to cognitive behavioral therapy in order not to yell at my children. -- Ayelet Waldman
Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. -- Tony Dungy
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics and computational social science. -- Nicholas A. Christakis
The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit. -- Tim Ferriss
Within childhood behaviors, there are known behaviors; there's teasing and there's name-calling, and different kinds of things happen as kids start to socialize. And then there's serious bullying, and then there's actual aggression and behavioral problems. But you can't put it all under the tent of bullying. -- Julianne Moore
First we have to recognize that the cause of poverty is both structural and behavioral. And the first thing about the behavior part is that we need a moral revolution within the African American community. Look - no white racist makes you get pregnant when you are a black teenager. -- Henry Louis Gates
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches! -- Dan Ariely
Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist. -- David J. Anderson
There's only one thing harder than living in a home with an adolescent - and that's being an adolescent. The moodiness, the volatility, the wholesale lack of impulse control, all would be close to clinical conditions if they occurred at another point in life. In adolescence, they're just part of the behavioral portfolio. -- Jeffrey Kluger
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists. -- Jack Kornfield
The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change. -- John Katzenbach
Social welfare is the most corrosive behavioral force ever unleashed by man. -- James Cook
The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic. -- Richard Thaler
I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment. -- Cass Sunstein
Automation and technology don't cure behavioral ruts: they just create new instances of them. -- Kenneth Goldsmith
Jesus prescribes a doctrinal test for false prophets because a behavioral test is unreliable. -- John Robbins
How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it? -- Charlie Munger
The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics. -- Daniel Kahneman
[The question for the behavioral disciplines is simply] what is better, and how do we get there? -- Kenneth E. Boulding
The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors. -- Zygmunt Bauman
These people are obsessive. They go overboard interpreting verbal and behavioral cues that take them way beyond reality. -- Cary Cooper
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that. -- Willow Madison
The most recent studies, . . . both behavioral and biological, indicate one's sexual orientation is genetic, something one is born with. -- Peter McWilliams
Each race (or variety) is characterized by a more or less distinct combination of inherited morphological, behavioral, physiological traits. -- J. Philippe Rushton
I think that the definition of autism is too broad. You got to remember, autism definition is a behavioral profiling. -- Temple Grandin
Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them. -- Patrick Lencioni
One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in. -- Dan Ariely
Non-operational ideas are non-behavioral and subversive. The movement of thought is stopped at barriers which appear as the limits of Reason itself. -- Herbert Marcuse
We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic. -- Barbara Tuchman
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Loss of social standing is an ever-present threat for individuals whose social acceptance is based on behavioral traits rather than unconditional human value. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters. -- Edwin Moses
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies -- Bryant McGill
We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal energies. -- Bryant H. McGill
I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology. -- Cass Sunstein
One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists and psychologists. -- Lester Thurow
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an unscrutable mystery. -- Lewis Thomas
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change. -- Carlo Ratti
[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
We try not using medications initially, and we use something called behavioral therapy for insomnia. This changes behaviors people do in bed, none of the tossing and turning. -- Shelby Harris
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. -- Ernst Mayr
It's very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late. -- Luc Montagnier
Its very difficult in our society. You cannot impose certain behavioral changes. Education can do it at the right time, probably by high school. After that it is too late. -- Luc Montagnier
While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales. -- Carl Sagan
Do not trust financial market risk models. Despite the predilection of some analysts to model the financial markets using sophisticated mathematics, the markets are governed by behavioral science, not physical science. -- Seth Klarman
I have been amazed by the interest in cognitive behavioral therapy that has developed since 'Feeling Good' was first published in 1980. At that time, very few people had heard of cognitive therapy. -- David D. Burns
Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control. -- Richard Thaler
Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems. -- Gbenga Akinnagbe
We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors. -- Barry Ritholtz
The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that. -- Robin Williams
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life. -- Peter R. Grant
I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions. -- Harold E. Varmus

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