Behavioral Science

The hit American sitcom “Cloud 9” introduced a female character who wears a false name tag at work, hiding her real name from customers. Her daily switching of names is a small act of rebellion against what she sees as a silly corporation policy that she believes can only harm…

I was allergic to the b-word, “behaviour.” This allergy persisted for many years before I found the cure. Talk to me all day about promoting “action,” but when someone says: “we’re trying to change people’s behaviour,” the sneezing and negative reaction kicks in. …

In this article, I introduce a paper that utilized the transfer learning approach to leverage deep learning models in social science research. Transfer Learning Transfer learning is a machine learning approach aiming to exploit the knowledge retrieved from one problem for improving the predictive performance of a learning model for a different…

Transformer-Based Behavioral Representation Learning Enables Transfer Learning for Mobile Sensing in Small Datasets — In this article, I introduce a paper that (1) verifies the usefulness of the Transformer model to predict flu test results based on sensor data and (2) shows how this model can be used with small samples via transfer learning. Motivation While deep learning has revolutionized research and applications in NLP…

While reading the renowned book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” I became fascinated by how our decision-making is often influenced by biases. These biases arise from our past experiences, personal preferences, and deeply held beliefs. …

Improving critical thinking can be so drained and frustrating. We, sometimes, feel like we have to train our critical thinking in everyday life. It’s true, but probably not as deliberately and thoroughly as you could. With massive online information nowadays, we’re so easy to bombarded in our daily life. Social…

Your February update on the latest in the world of behavioral science-backed coaching! — Hello! Welcome to another Habit Coach Wrap — your monthly update on the latest in the world of behavioral science-backed coaching. In each update, we (the team at Habit Coach Professionals) share the three most important pieces of content to check out each month, and more! We’ve got a dino-mite…

Four of the many non-fiction titles I read last year and have thoughts about but have put off sharing. :) Genres: productivity, business psychology, behavioral science 📕So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love (Cal Newport, 2012) 👍 Summed up in…