How to Use behavioral science in a Sentence

behavioral science

noun
  • Another insight from behavioral science tells us that the habits hardest to break are those that give a dopamine kick.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The way Lynch looks at men who want something from him but know nothing about him should be preserved and catalogued in the name of behavioral science.
    Robert Klemko, SI.com, 9 Dec. 2014
  • The mental blind spot called loss aversion is one of the most fundamental insights of a field of behavioral science called prospect theory in the last few decades.
    Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • The non-profit Ideas 42 is applying behavioral science research to help plan the effort.
    al, 27 May 2021
  • As Stinnett explained over the phone, the goal of EVP is to use lessons from behavioral science to encourage people to boost their good voting record rather than shaming them for past absences.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 3 Nov. 2022
  • Elizabeth Weingarten is the head of behavioral science insights for Torch.
    Sana Lall-Trail and Elizabeth Weingarten, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • This changed in the first decade of this new century when researchers, including my team, approached the study of nostalgia using the modern tools of behavioral science.
    Clay Routledge, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Many excellent books and experts can provide you with tools that will leverage behavioral science.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • The next step comes directly from neuroscience and behavioral science.
    Dr. Jon Finn, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • What behavioral science tells us about sticking to our New Year’s resolutions.
    Jena McGregor, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • Some researchers have also turned to social and behavioral science to try to understand how people respond to warnings.
    Kate Carpenter / Made By History, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • Chater is a professor of behavioral science at Warwick Business School.
    Nick Chater, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
  • As behavioral science became better known over the past decade, its methods may well have been applied to a wider spectrum of political uses.
    Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • Join us for this free webinar and discover what the future of work might look like based on trends, behavioral science, and career industry insights to get your career growth plan on track.
    IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Such linguistic shifts can make an enormous difference, said Graves, the behavioral science expert at Ogilvy.
    Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Herd behavioral science plays a major role in this phenomenon, too.
    Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Their work relies on the fact that several groups have organized direct replications of studies in the behavioral sciences.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • The work was done in a field—behavioral science—where enough problems had already been recognized to motivate extensive replication studies in the first place.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Liam Delaney, an expert on behavioral science at the London School of Economics, said that for many young adults, convenience is important and pop up clinics might work.
    BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The bride, 32, works in the office of development for the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore.
    New York Times, 24 Dec. 2017
  • Sana Lall-Trail is a behavioral science writer and researcher at Torch, a people development platform.
    Sana Lall-Trail and Elizabeth Weingarten, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • When the study began in the summer of 2020, participants visited the University of Amsterdam’s behavioral science lab, put on a pair of black headphones and sang the lyrics that appeared on a screen.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Parker, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford, said the study's findings for now are limited to boys.
    Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
  • Leaders seeking to cultivate a blame-free culture and boost team learning can adopt eight simple strategies rooted in behavioral science: 1.
    Nuala Walsh, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • An advisory group composed of experts from public health, travel medicine, economics, behavioral science, and even theme park design spent the gap year coming up with a plan.
    Adam Rogers, Wired, 22 July 2021
  • Researchers have spent decades building and testing behavioral science tools for policy.
    Holly Caggiano, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Using behavioral science to reduce absences At least some share of chronic absenteeism can be explained by malleable factors—and can therefore be changed.
    Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2020
  • This happens to be a behavioral science research strategy.
    Cari Shane, Car and Driver, 20 Sep. 2020
  • The center is also expanding its messaging with new graphics jazzed up with input from behavioral science.
    Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • But the ongoing replication crisis in the behavioral sciences could undermine the hope for clarity through research.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 28 June 2018

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