Priming Effects: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
If you have read a popular psychology book in the last fifteen years, you have probably been told…
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Articles on Behavioral Analysis — from Yu-kai Chou, creator of the Octalysis Framework.
Inoculation Theory: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
McGuire's Inoculation Theory: weakened counter-arguments build durable resistance to persuasion, misinformation, and brand attack. S-Tier behavioral guide.
Moral Disengagement: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
The most dangerous people in any organization are not the ones who knowingly do harm. They are the…
Theory of Reasoned Action: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Every behavior-change theory built after 1975 reuses the same building block. You can see it in the Theory…
Theory of Planned Behavior: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Short answer: The Theory of Planned Behavior (Icek Ajzen, 1991) says actions follow intentions, and intentions come from…
Post-Traumatic Growth: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Tedeschi & Calhoun's Post-Traumatic Growth — the five domains where schema rebuilding after trauma produces lasting change, plus…
Ego Depletion: S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
Baumeister's willpower-as-muscle theory failed two pre-registered replications. What survived, what replaced it, and how to design around the…
Learned Optimism: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
In 1985, Metropolitan Life had a problem the entire insurance industry had: half of every new sales hire…
Self-Perception Theory: An S-Tier Behavioral Designer’s Guide
In 1967, Daryl Bem walked into the cognitive dissonance literature and proposed that the entire towering edifice that…