How to Use behavioral science in a Sentence

behavioral science

noun
  • Study behavioral sciences and that’s clear.
    — Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Another insight from behavioral science tells us that the habits hardest to break are those that give a dopamine kick.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2021
  • The growth of social and behavioral sciences within our field has been important.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 24 May 2025
  • Needless to say, decades of behavioral science tell a very different story.
    — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But there’s more too, in medicine, in behavioral science, and in the pursuit of longevity and quality of life for people.
    — John Werner, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Many excellent books and experts can provide you with tools that will leverage behavioral science.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Herd behavioral science plays a major role in this phenomenon, too.
    — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The next step comes directly from neuroscience and behavioral science.
    — Dr. Jon Finn, Forbes, 16 May 2022
  • Researchers have spent decades building and testing behavioral science tools for policy.
    — Holly Caggiano, Scientific American, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Modern behavioral science helps explain why.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2026
  • The way Lynch looks at men who want something from him but know nothing about him should be preserved and catalogued in the name of behavioral science.
    — Robert Klemko, SI.com, 9 Dec. 2014
  • That’s why many social and behavioral sciences are now working at the intersection of weather and climate.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Some researchers have also turned to social and behavioral science to try to understand how people respond to warnings.
    — Kate Carpenter / Made By History, TIME, 19 July 2024
  • What behavioral science tells us about sticking to our New Year’s resolutions.
    — Jena McGregor, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022
  • The mental blind spot called loss aversion is one of the most fundamental insights of a field of behavioral science called prospect theory in the last few decades.
    — Bygleb Tsipursky, Fortune, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the most successful changes, leaders put a winning mindset to work by applying practices from the behavioral sciences.
    — Julia Dhar, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • The center is also expanding its messaging with new graphics jazzed up with input from behavioral science.
    — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 1 June 2018
  • Research in behavioral science shows that the quality of decisions can drop when people face too many choices in a short period.
    — Fazila Shahid, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
  • According to behavioral science, though, shame is not a strong motivator for spurring personal change.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 16 July 2025
  • What’s driving change now is the use of behavioral science to influence financial decisions.
    — Nandan Sheth, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Elizabeth Weingarten is the head of behavioral science insights for Torch.
    — Sana Lall-Trail and Elizabeth Weingarten, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • As behavioral science became better known over the past decade, its methods may well have been applied to a wider spectrum of political uses.
    — Olivia Goldhill, Quartz, 31 July 2019
  • The non-profit Ideas 42 is applying behavioral science research to help plan the effort.
    — al, 27 May 2021
  • Their work relies on the fact that several groups have organized direct replications of studies in the behavioral sciences.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Such linguistic shifts can make an enormous difference, said Graves, the behavioral science expert at Ogilvy.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Chater is a professor of behavioral science at Warwick Business School.
    — Nick Chater, WSJ, 10 Aug. 2018
  • This changed in the first decade of this new century when researchers, including my team, approached the study of nostalgia using the modern tools of behavioral science.
    — Clay Routledge, WSJ, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Join us for this free webinar and discover what the future of work might look like based on trends, behavioral science, and career industry insights to get your career growth plan on track.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Oct. 2020
  • The work was done in a field—behavioral science—where enough problems had already been recognized to motivate extensive replication studies in the first place.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2019
  • Our research on the behavioral science of change shows that successful transformation depends on whether people trust and participate in the change.
    — Julia Dhar, Fortune, 29 May 2026

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