For many people, the motivation to exercise fluctuates from week to week, and these fluctuations predict whether they will be physically active, according to researchers. In an effort to understand ...

Having a good team isn't just about skills and references; it's about personalities and how they interact. Employee motivation is part of that. Do your employees inspire each other to achieve or see ...

A TechGYD feature highlights Dr. Gregory Duhon explaining how fitness apps influence dopamine, motivation, discipline, ...

To reduce bias based on the user’s current health status, a mobile health intervention used a future-self avatar to help individuals understand long-term effects of physical activity and nutrition on ...

Judging from the panoply of motivational books, speeches, videos, and how-to guides, you'd think that psychology has the surefire answer that can explain the simple basis for our many complex ...

Let’s say you have an 8-year-old son who seems to be perfectly content to play video games all day, every day. Physical activity levels, outside of school, have dwindled and lately there’s has been ...

It is generally assumed that differences in the processing of salient information and the manifestation of motivated behavior are a product of variations in neurocircuitry. The contribution of sex to ...

The previous post in my Ethics 2.0 column presented the scientific case that people have a capacity for ethical behavior. Under suitable circumstances people are quite capable and willing to conform ...

The Information-Motivation-Behavioral skills model of medication adherence, traditionally used to conceptualize HIV medication adherence, also is applicable to diabetes and may be used to improve ...