Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

When someone asks you to change something about yourself, you can respond in a variety of different ways. Reactions can range from being angry and resistant to being interested and excited. Change is ...

The Stages of Change Management, also known as the Transtheoretical Model, is a framework originally developed to describe how people change their behavior. It has since been adapted for use in ...

Change isn’t easy, especially when it involves breaking habits. Anyone who has ever made a New Year’s resolution knows this ­all too well. What you may not know is that, according to research on ...

You’ve made your lists of ins and outs for 2024. You have set your goals and intentions just like you did this time last year. Whether you are successful or not in achieving these goals or creating ...

Large language model-based chatbots can't effectively recognize users' motivation when they are hesitant about making healthy behavior changes, but they can support those who are committed to take ...

Motivational interviewing helps people resolve their ambivalence, tipping the decisional balance in the direction of growth and change. But what does it mean to say that our ambivalence has been ...

Understanding how people visually browse their surroundings and direct their gaze in specific situations is a long-standing goal among psychology researchers. Past studies suggest that humans exhibit ...

Large language model-based chatbots can’t effectively recognize users’ motivation when they are hesitant about making healthy behavior changes, but they can support those who are committed to take ...