A romantic partner’s drinking habits, personality traits, and mental health can affect how much you drink, and even how strongly genetics influence your drinking behavior.

Best friends influence a teen's emotions and grades, while popular peers dictate social media use and body image.

If you’ve ever wondered about what goes into understanding and shaping behavior, St. Cloud State University’s Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) master’s program is where students with that curiosity ...

Recent psychological research has revealed the extraordinary extent to which friendships shape our behaviors, decisions, and overall life trajectory. While most adults maintain a core group of three ...

Young children in a classroom (Photo credit: Shutterstock.com / Ground Picture) The landscape of modern education requires a fundamental shift in how student behavior is understood and managed.

During the pandemic, arming the C-suite with employee data was never more critical. Executives needed insights on employee health, well-being and sentiment to make fast decisions since working ...

As children enter adolescence, peers become a dominant force in their lives. With adult supervision waning, teens look to agemates for guidance on how to act, think, and fit in. But who matters ...

Shaping behavior has always been an integral part of design, but whether the design is good for users isn’t always clear cut. Since first being coined as a term in 2010, Behavior Design has grown in ...

Building on a post that looked at times in which media influenced real-world behaviors, we will reflect below on why this can happen through a constellation of theories. 1. Social Learning Theory.