Past econ talk guest: I didn't put any studies that I believe are unreliable into my book and um in fact took some out as I discovered you know learn things that that made me question them so I tried to be pretty careful which doesn't mean that it's all perfect. "I think there are plenty of things that aren't true but uh there's also lots of things that do replicate and are really robust," she says. 'When you constrain yourself when you incentivize yourself to be differently like better things happen,' the author adds.
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?