behaviors - Concepts
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- Activation Energy (Psychology) - The initial effort required to start a behavior, determining likelihood of action.
- Akrasia - Acting against one's better judgment - knowing what's best but doing otherwise.
- Behavioral Contagion - The spread of behaviors through social groups, where observing others influences actions.
- Cognitive Dissonance - The mental discomfort from holding contradictory beliefs or behaving inconsistently with beliefs.
- Dark Triad - A personality constellation encompassing three socially aversive traits: narcissism, psychopathy, and Machiavellianism.
- Default Effect - The power of pre-set options - people disproportionately stick with defaults.
- Fawn Response - A trauma response of people-pleasing and appeasing to avoid conflict and create safety.
- Goal Gradient Effect - The tendency to increase effort as we approach a goal.
- 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.
- Infovore - A person with an insatiable appetite for information, constantly seeking new knowledge and data.
- Leadership Shadow - The lasting impact leaders have on culture and behavior through what they say, do, prioritize, and measure.
- Leading by Example - Influencing others through personal behavior rather than just words or directives.
- Mental Accounting - The tendency to treat money differently based on subjective categories.
- Mere Measurement Effect - The phenomenon where asking about intentions increases the likelihood of those behaviors.
- Millionaire Behavior - A set of behavioral patterns and mindsets commonly observed among highly successful people who build lasting wealth.
- Motivation Through Action - Action generates motivation, not vice versa - starting creates the momentum to continue.
- Obligation Principle - The psychological mechanism that creates feelings of debt and duty to repay after receiving.
- Procrastination Types - Different patterns and causes of procrastination requiring different intervention strategies.
- Pseudo-Set Framing - Creating a set or sequence of tasks increases a person's likelihood of following through to completion.
- Psychology of Change - Understanding the mental and emotional processes people go through when facing personal or organizational change.
- Reciprocity Rule - The informal guideline to repay in kind what another person has provided.
- Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - A prediction that causes itself to become true through the expectation's influence.
- Self-Sabotage - Unconscious behaviors and thought patterns that undermine your own success and goals.
- Sludge - Friction in processes that makes desired actions harder or discourages beneficial behavior.
- Switching Costs - The costs incurred when changing from one product, service, or state to another.
- Trigger-Routine-Reward - The three-part structure of habits: cue that triggers behavior, routine performed, and reward received.
- Willpower as Muscle - The model that willpower can be strengthened through exercise and depleted through use.
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