40 Behavioral Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Good Broken Better Economics Year Few Month Those Though Vividly February Study Self-Control New Because Always Behavioral Few Things January Us Many Even Lets Why Illustrate Things Resolutions

A small behavioral change can also lead to embracing a wider checklist of healthier choices. Chuck Norris

Change Embracing Small Lead Also Healthier Behavioral Choices Wider

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

Day Achievement Creative School Behavior Problems Increased ADHD Physical Physical Activity Classroom Attention Development Stunted Test Test Scores Scores Linked Closely Behavioral Children Social Decline Meanwhile Help Activity Play Cognitive

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

People Smoking Behavior Important Medicine Incredibly Willingness Habits Take Steps Questions Begin HIV Behavioral Quit Transmission Avoid Premise Element

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

Bullying You Problems Different Kinds Kids Kinds Put Tent Known Within Behavioral Behaviors Childhood Different Happen Then Aggression Serious Actual Socialize Things Things Happen Start

Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence. Bernice King

Conflict Training Police Will Nation Crimes Rules Respond Must More Preventing Develop Nonviolent Departments Suspected Behavioral In-Depth Psychology Require Across Engagement Techniques Violence Resolution

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

Day Change Every Day People Every Promote Some Stays Throwing Bottle Also Still Behavioral Then Show Plastic Away

Behavioral scientists distinguish between fast thinking and slow thinking. Fast thinking is represented in the mind's System 1: it is automatic, intuitive, and often emotional. Slow thinking, reflected in System 2, is deliberative and reflective; it likes statistics. It's hard to think of a purer System 1 candidate than Trump. Cass Sunstein

Mind Slow Think Thinking Distinguish System Statistics Intuitive Purer Emotional Between Likes Scientists Trump Reflected Reflective Than Behavioral Candidate Often Automatic Hard Fast

In psychology and behavioral economics, people have shown that if you just describe options in a certain way, or make some features of a situation salient, you can get people to do and even see what you want. You don't have to be a Jedi to manipulate people's attention. Cass Sunstein

You People Economics Situation Way See Some Features Attention Make Options Get Behavioral Just Want Psychology Manipulate Certain Certain Way Jedi Describe Shown Even

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

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

Myself Problem Bird Made Field Luck Biology Saw Solve Had Particular Particular Problem Islands Becoming Scientist Behavioral Just Wanted Process While Working Assistant Chance

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

Few Innovations Evolutionary Rapid Give Ecological Inventions Potential Physiological Most Make Improved Behavioral May Doomed Them Species Competitive Extinction

One thing I've learned is that preschool teachers really have seen it all - and they can be a wealth of information! If you have any questions about a certain behavioral hurdle with your child or if you have a question about a certain age or phase, ask them! Eva Amurri

You Age Wealth Seen Hurdle One Thing About Learned Question Questions Child Behavioral Any Information Them Ask Really Certain Certain Age Your Teachers Your Child Preschool Thing Phase

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or glucose that essentially lights up specific and different areas of the brain being activated when a person speaks words or sees words or hears words, revealing the organic location for areas of behavioral malfunction. Floyd Skloot

Words Organic Location Sees Area Emission Lights New Revealing Brain Hears Malfunction Labeled Up Laboratory Person Behavioral Essentially Being Oxygen Different Different Areas Speaks Uses Specific Technique

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

Problems Trouble Group Other Months Locked Locked Up Out Hospital Institutions Up Behavioral Psychiatric Growing Growing Up Homes Number

Underlings look up to the boss for behavioral cues, subtle signs, hints and gestures. Grace Poe

Signs Boss Look Hints Up Gestures Behavioral Subtle

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

You Cause Behavior Black Poverty First Revolution White Community Teenager Recognize Moral About Structural Both Part Look First Thing Within Makes Get American Behavioral The First Thing African African-American Pregnant Thing Need

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

Change People People Change Become Thinking Kind Variety Leads Behavioral Depressed Them Help Help People Therapy Techniques Cognitive

Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks. Jared Polis

Learning Problems Parents Fall Too Teenage Our Kids Immigrants Through Disabilities Students Most Learners Vulnerable Cracks Behavioral Often Poor

The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how different sets of neurons communicate with each other - including understanding the wiring rules, the biochemical rules, and the functional behavioral rules. Michael Rosbash

I think, in general, we've created an environment where we've done away with the sort of day-to-day training that's necessary, including crisis intervention, behavioral health training - the kinds of things that we know that both protect officers and the community - and moved away to a highly military, advanced SWAT team mentality. Michelle Lujan Grisham

Health Training Community Military Think Intervention Crisis Kinds General Both Mentality Advanced Environment Day-To-Day Highly Know Protect Sort Officers Behavioral Done Moved Where Created Team Including Away Things Necessary

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

Life Learning Song Summarize Signals Responses Determined Genetically Particular Females Sings Male Fixed Behavioral Manner Inherited Early

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