Self-control—or the ability to manage one's impulses, emotions, and behaviors to achieve long-term goals—is what separates humans from the rest of the animal kingdom. Self-control is primarily ...

Internet: Compulsive internet use refers to people who become so dependent on using their phones or other devices that they lose control of their own behavior and suffer negative consequences.

In the face of growing global challenges such as climate change, pandemics, and threats to democratic values, traditional behavioral policy approaches are increasingly coming into question. The ...

In this setting, behavioral affectors are more easily monitored and controlled for than in the wild. For reliable control over experimental variables and optimal power to test behavioral affectors ...

Decision-making is a process requiring cognitive control for effective information processing and adaptability and results in the selection of one action over another action(s). Laboratories that are ...

Health Behavior addresses the behavioral, social, and cultural factors related to or driving individual and population health and health disparities. Students in our program apply social and ...