Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep a streaker from their self-appointed activity. janiecbros/E+ via Getty Images One user’s Wordle streak of more than a month’s worth of wins.

I recently attended a meeting where they handed out cards to each person. Arriving at my seat, I read the card, saying, "What's the one thing in life that you have almost given up on?" This question ...

Survey data shows that most people believe climate change is happening, but many don't act, and as a postdoctoral fellow in Annenberg School for Communication Professor Emily Falk's Communication ...

Like many people, you probably have good intentions when it comes to exercise. You know you should do it, you understand why it’s important, and yet… you just can’t seem to find the motivation to ...

I first started working with children diagnosed with autism in the 1970s when the incidence was around 1 or 2 in every 10,000 children. It was a rare condition, and most children were ...

Like an online retailer trying to woo a customer back by offering a 10% discount on the boots they’ve been eyeing, education researcher Angela Duckworth wanted to understand how to incentivize ...

A major function of leaders is to help inspire and motivate followers to execute the goals of the team or collective. Psychologists have studied motivation for well over a century. As a result, we ...

Because there’s no generally accepted definition of what a streak is, I started by trying to define the phenomenon. Based on input from people maintaining streaks and how streaks are described in the ...