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Human Behavior
Understand why we do what we do. Explore 4 carefully selected articles below.
Habit Stacking: The Simple Way to Build New Habits
Most new habits fail not because of laziness but because they have no reliable cue. Habit stacking — borrowed from BJ Fogg's tiny habits work and popularized by James Clear — fixes the cue problem by attaching the new behavior to one you already do.
Your Decisions Are Better After You've Eaten
The famous 'hungry judges' study has been everywhere — but the follow-up research is much messier than the headline. Here is what decision fatigue research actually shows and what to do about it.
Why People Trust Confident Speakers (Even When They Are Wrong)
Cameron Anderson at Berkeley showed in a clean experiment that overconfident people get rated as more competent — even when they're objectively wrong. Here's what that means for meetings, news, and how to push back against persuasive certainty.
Why We Overestimate How Much Others Notice Us
Wearing an embarrassing T-shirt, Thomas Gilovich's lab showed that people dramatically overestimate how much strangers notice them. The spotlight effect is real, well-replicated, and surprisingly useful to understand.