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fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

Enjoy the Pursuit: Why Adherence Is the Real Intervention

Designing health interventions to make the process enjoyable increases adherence because people persist when the activity is psychologically rewarding.
fromPsychology Today
7 months ago

How Our Morals Might Get in the Way of Behavior Change

In the 1960s and 70s, researchers showed that while people's actions are heavily influenced by the context around them, we tend to explain behavior by focusing on internal traits. This tendency, for example, to say someone was rude because they are a rude person, rather than because they were in a stressful situation, is called the Fundamental Attribution Error. We pay less attention to the context and attribute behavior to the content of a person's character.
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