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Procrastination Types - Different patterns and causes of procrastination requiring different intervention strategies.
Escalation of Commitment - The tendency to continue investing in a decision or course of action despite evidence that it's failing, due to prior investment of time, money, or effort.
Reciprocity Rule - The informal guideline to repay in kind what another person has provided.
Precrastination - The tendency to complete tasks as soon as possible, even at the cost of extra effort, lower quality, or worse outcomes.
Default Effect - The power of pre-set options - people disproportionately stick with defaults.
Forces of Progress - A JTBD framework diagram showing the four forces that influence a customer's decision to switch from an old solution to a new one.
Dark Triad - A personality constellation encompassing three socially aversive traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
Interaction Design - The practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services with a focus on behavior—how users interact with them through actions, responses, feedback, and flows.
Trigger-Routine-Reward - The three-part structure of habits: cue that triggers behavior, routine performed, and reward received.
Motivation Through Action - Action generates motivation, not vice versa - starting creates the momentum to continue.
Akrasia - Acting against one's better judgment - knowing what's best but doing otherwise.
Reactance - A psychological phenomenon where people resist or oppose rules, regulations, or persuasion attempts perceived as threatening their freedom or autonomy.
Leading by Example - Influencing others through personal behavior rather than just words or directives.
Signaling - Actions taken primarily to communicate information about oneself to others rather than for their direct practical value.
Personal Accountability - Taking full responsibility for your actions, decisions, and outcomes without making excuses or blaming external factors.
Pseudo-Set Framing - Creating a set or sequence of tasks increases a person's likelihood of following through to completion.
Social Psychology - The scientific study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real, imagined, or implied presence of others.
Mere Measurement Effect - The phenomenon where asking about intentions increases the likelihood of those behaviors.
Infovore - A person with an insatiable appetite for information, constantly seeking new knowledge and data.
Cognitive Dissonance - The mental discomfort from holding contradictory beliefs or behaving inconsistently with beliefs.
DISC Assessment - A behavioral assessment measuring four personality traits—Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness—widely used in workplace settings for team building and communication.
Self-Sabotage - Unconscious behaviors and thought patterns that undermine your own success and goals.
Mortality Salience - Conscious awareness of one's eventual death and its profound psychological effects on behavior, attitudes, and worldview.
Psychology of Change - Understanding the mental and emotional processes people go through when facing personal or organizational change.
Behavioral Momentum - The tendency for established behavior patterns to persist and resist change, analogous to physical momentum in Newtonian mechanics.
Goal Gradient Effect - The tendency to increase effort as we approach a goal.
Obligation Principle - The psychological mechanism that creates feelings of debt and duty to repay after receiving.
Habitus - Bourdieu's concept of deeply ingrained habits, skills, and dispositions acquired through life experience.
Information Foraging Theory - A theory explaining how people search for information using strategies similar to animals foraging for food.
Switching Costs - The costs incurred when changing from one product, service, or state to another.
Performative Activism - Activism done primarily for social appearance and personal branding rather than genuine commitment to change.
Willpower as Muscle - The model that willpower can be strengthened through exercise and depleted through use.
Conspicuous Consumption - Spending on goods and services primarily to display wealth and social status rather than for practical utility.
Mental Accounting - The tendency to treat money differently based on subjective categories.
Millionaire Behavior - A set of behavioral patterns and mindsets commonly observed among highly successful people who build lasting wealth.
Proactivity - The disposition to anticipate problems, initiate change, and take action before being asked rather than passively reacting to events.
Activation Energy (Psychology) - The initial effort required to start a behavior, determining likelihood of action.
Slacktivism - Low-effort online activism such as liking, sharing, or signing petitions that substitutes for meaningful engagement with a cause.
Behavioral Contagion - The spread of behaviors through social groups, where observing others influences actions.
Fawn Response - A trauma response of people-pleasing and appeasing to avoid conflict and create safety.
Costly Signaling Theory - The principle that signals must be expensive or hard to fake to credibly communicate information about the signaler.
Social Scripts - Predetermined behavioral sequences and expectations that guide interactions and life choices in social situations.
Leadership Shadow - The lasting impact leaders have on culture and behavior through what they say, do, prioritize, and measure.
Sludge - Friction in processes that makes desired actions harder or discourages beneficial behavior.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - A prediction that causes itself to become true through the expectation's influence.
Behavioral Genetics - The study of how genetic variation contributes to individual differences in behavior, personality, and mental abilities.
Virtue Signaling - Publicly expressing moral values or opinions primarily to demonstrate one's good character to others.
Countersignaling - Deliberately avoiding or downplaying signals to demonstrate that one doesn't need them.

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