Media Coverage

Selected Media Coverage of Research 

All Other Media Coverage of Research

·   Behavioral Nudges: Prof. Hengchen Dai Reveals How Small Changes Transform Organizations. Business Talk, 01/18/2025

·   Science Has Learned How to Get People to Do Things, Especially for Public Health. How the World Works Podcast, 7/26/2024

·   Why England’s Star-Studded Football Team Struggles. BizNews, 6/30/2024

·      Assessing Nudge Scalability. Faculti, 05/20/2024 

·      UCLA and Carnegie Mellon Researchers Show Efficacy of COVID-19 Vaccine Reminders. Daily Bruin, 05/19/2024 

·      Want Your New Year Goals to Stick? Make Use of the ‘Fresh Start’ Effect, HRM, 1/9/2023

·    The Power of Nudges, CNN Chasing Life Podcast, 10/12/2021

·      Will Pfizer’s FDA Approval Spell an Uptick in COVID Vaccination? Popular Science, 9/1/2021

·      It’s Academic, FanGraphs Effectively Wild Podcast Series, 7/2/2021

·      This Simple Text Message Can Encourage People to Get Vaccinated, Researchers Say, CNN, 6/29/2021

·      Setting High Performance Expectations Can Lead To Failure, Ideas for Leaders, 4/2/2021

·      Are You Ready for a Fresh Start? Freakonomics, 3/17/2021

·      The Science of How to Stick to New Year's Resolutions and Truly Change Your Habits, CNN, 1/1/2021

·      新年要立flag吗？要，如果你在2020年过得不咋样的话, 果壳网, 1/1/2021

·   What Baseball Teaches Us About Our Own Performance. How the World Works Podcast, 09/18/2020

·      Invite Consumers to Pop-up, and Pop Goes the Spending — Offline and Online. The Source, 09/16/2019 

·      Difficulty Behind Maintaining New Year’s Resolutions, Why They Can Fail. Daily Bruin, 01/22/2019 

·      The Unexpected Science of Fresh Starts and Failures. Psychology Today, 11/22/2018

·      Double-Edged Fresh Slate: Not All Second Chances Are Good Ones. Quartz at Work, 08/23/2018

·      Solving Health Care’s Hand-Washing Puzzle. KevinMD.com, 03/09/2018

·      You’re Most Likely to Do Something Extreme Right Before You Turn 30. The Atlantic, 01/05/2018

·      Head to Head with Hengchen Dai. Medium, 11/02/2017 

·      Is There a Perfect Time to Set Goals? - BBC, 10/17/2017

·      The Tech that Tracks Your Movements at Work - BBC, 06/14/2017

·      The Most Popular - and Best - Days to Start a Diet - Today, 05/22/2017

·      September Is Your Second-chance January. The Cut, 09/01/2016

·      The Long-Term Effects of Tracking Employee Behavior - Harvard Business Review, 07/18/2016

·      What Studying Hand-washing is Teaching About Compliance - Science Daily, 05/10/2016

·      Is It the Right Time for a Fresh Start? - Scientific American, 03/01/2016

·     The New Era of 30-Day Fitness Challenges - The Wall Street Journal, 02/09/2016

·      Can Psychology Teach Us How to Stick to New Year's Resolutions? NPR, 01/01/2016 

·       The Science of Habit Formation Explains How to Make Goals That Stick - Quartz, 12/29/2015

·       Want to Keep New Year's Resolutions? Timing is Key, Researchers Find - Chicago Tribune, 12/22/2015

·       New Year's Resolutions Often Fail. Good Thing the Year is Full of Fresh Starts - The Washington Post,  12/15/2015

·       Why Monday is the Best Day for Setting New Goals - Association for Psychological Science, 11/10/2015

·       When Willpower Isn't Enough. Freakonomics, 03/13/2015

·       Health Experts Don't Always Sanitize Their Hands, Data Show. NPR, 03/02/2015

·       How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions, Bloomberg View, 12/30/2014

·       Hand-Washing Compliance in Hospitals Suffers During Long Shifts - ABC News Radio, 11/12/2014

·       Hospital Workers Wash Hands Less at End of Shift, Study Finds - U.S. News & World Report, 11/12/2014

·       Hospital Patients More Likely to See Doctors and Nurses with Clean Hands If They Have Appointment in the Morning - The Daily Mail,  11/12/2014

·       Visit Hospital in the Morning to be Sure of a Doctor with Clean Hands - The Telegraph,  11/11/2014

·       Hospital Workers Wash Hands Less Frequently Toward End of Shift, Study Finds. APA, 11/10/2014

·       Take Advantage of a Fresh Start - Men’s Fitness, 10/31/2014

·       The Exact Perfect Amount of Time to Take a Break, According to Data - Time, 10/20/2014

·       Managers Cannot Wash Their Hands of Employees’ Routine Tasks - Financial Times, 09/29/2014

·       We're Too Busy to Follow the Rules - Harvard Business Review, 09/10/2014

·       Want to Make Better Choices? Contrive a ‘Fresh Start’ Out of Thin Air - New York Magazine, 06/27/2014

·       Psychological Studies Reveal How to Be More Likable - The Daily Pennsylvania, 01/27/2014

·       Need a Fresh Start? Here's How to Begin. Knowledge@Wharton, 01/06/2014

·       Study Demystifies How People Keep New Year's Resolutions - The Daily Pennsylvania, 01/16/2014

·       Want People to Trust You? Apologize - CBS MoneyWatch, 11/01/2013