Deindividuation: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every online community you have ever shipped (every Discord, every multiplayer lobby, every comment section, every anonymous-feedback channel…
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Articles on Behavioral Analysis — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
Pygmalion & Golem Effects: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: The Pygmalion Effect is the finding that what a rater expects of someone moves that person’s…
Social Loafing: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: Social loafing is the tendency for people to put in less effort when their output is…
Hawthorne Effect: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
The Hawthorne Effect explained without the textbook fairy tale: what the Western Electric studies actually found, why modern…
Big Five Personality Traits: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Costa & McCrae's Big Five OCEAN model — five dimensions, real predictive validity, where it falls apart, and…
Erikson’s 8 Stages: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: Erik Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development, in order, are Trust vs Mistrust, Autonomy vs Shame…
Piaget’s Stages: A Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Almost every behavioral designer who skipped a developmental psychology class still uses Piaget, whether they know it or…
The Dark Triad: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every designer who has ever chosen a dark pattern, buried a cancel link, or engineered a scarcity countdown…
Milgram Experiment: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: The Milgram obedience experiment showed that ordinary people will follow an authority figure far past their…