Behavioral Grooves Podcast Kurt Nelson, PhD and Tim Houlihan

Exercising your courage muscle every day and pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone, can have transform yourself and those around you. Learn how to embrace fear, and stay motivated when we face failure with Scare Your Soul author, Scott Simon.

If you were sent an exclusive invite to a secret society, would you accept? The “hype artist” Michael F. Schein, talks with Kurt and Tim about the allure of joining an exclusive, secret club.

The web was intended to be a way of creating genuine connections with others, but we’re all sadly familiar with the detrimental ways it can be used to spread misinformation. A team of experts at Prosocial Design Network is now using evidence-based behavioral insights to redesign social media interactions, to bring out the best of us online.

Would you help change a stranger’s tire? How about if they offered you $20?  Or, what if instead of money, they offered you some candy?
Kurt and Tim take a deep look at James Heyman and Dan Ariely’s landmark study called, “Effort for Payment: A Tale of Two Markets” in this fun Groove Track.

We find it easy to condemn wrongdoers, after they’ve been called out. But why do we often let unethical behavior occur around us, and not speak out? If we take a step back from the idea of there being one “bad apple”, we realize that with any wrongdoing, there is a collection of people who have been complicit in the behavior. World famous behavioral scientist Max Bazerman discusses why there is so much fear about speaking up.

How we think about the world can drastically influence how we navigate through it. Cutting edge research proves that reframing our mindset to be more positive, even in the light of negative events, can significantly alter how our brain responds. Join bestselling author David Robson for a deep dive into his new book The Expectation Effect.