I'm gonna say uh alie i should say alie crumb who's um down the street from you at stanford would and in the psych department I think did that really interesting work it's a small effect which has been it's a very strong finding. Over a month if you have a different mentality about the opportunity to get exercise at your job that that could that could add up to losing a pound. If you individually feel like you can't achieve something you're not going to try, he says.
Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania talks about her book How to Change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What can we learn from research in psychology and behavioral economics about breaking the habits we want to change? Is that research reliable? And should Russ Roberts accept being overweight or keep working at finding the thinner man trying to get out?