A professor at the University of Iowa encourages students to adopt new habits or break unhealthy behaviors using a low-stakes assignment. Rob Rouwenhorst, a marketing professor at the University of ...

Maybe you bite your nails or tug at your hair. Or, you’re drinking more than you’d like or checking your phone way too often. We all have habits that can seem to take over our lives, and despite ...

Breaking a bad habit can feel like swimming against a current. You know it isn’t serving you, but your brain defaults to it anyway. A bad habit is a learned behavior that’s performed automatically in ...

Picture your typical morning. You wake up, maybe you scroll through your phone, maybe you feel bad about that, you get up, you brush your teeth. This is all a collection of habits. Some are healthy ...

Research shows it helps to start small if you want new habits to stick. NPR's Life Kit has more. Picture your typical morning. You wake up, maybe scroll through your phone, feel bad about that, get up ...