Vaccines Save Lives: How Can Uptake Be Increased?
Nature Editorial, July 2024
Rides and Reminders: Researchers Led By Katy Milkman Investigate Strategies to Increase Vaccination Rates
Penn Today, June 2024
Reminders Boosted COVID Vaccine Uptake; Free Rides Did Not
Cornell Chronicle, June 2024
How Much You Exercise May Impact Your Flu and Pneumonia Risk, Study Shows
CNN, May 2023
4 Ways to Build Healthy Habits—and Stick To Them—in the New Year
Fortune, January 2023
The Best Investment to Make in 2023 Is in Yourself
The Wall Street Journal, December 2022
10 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health
Fortune, November 2022
Mastering the Art of Persuasion During a Pandemic
Nature Outlook, October 2022
What We Learned From Philadelphia’s Vaccine Lottery
The Philadelphia Inquirer, September 2022
Why Giving People Advice Almost Never Works
The Saturday Evening Post, August 2022
The Copy-Paste Technique Is the Easiest, Most Effective Self-Improvement Hack, a New Wharton Study Finds
Inc. Magazine, August 2022
What Would Persuade You to Change?
Financial Times, February 2022
When the Last Thing You Want to Do Is Exercise
The New York Times, January 2022
Run That Marathon! Write That Novel! How to Make 2022 the Year You Finally Smash Your Goals
The Guardian, January 2022
A Penny for Your Squats?
The New York Times, December 2021
These Are the Best Ways to Up Your Workout Habits, According to Study of Over 60,000 People
CNN, December 2021
Philly Announces First Winners of Its Vaccine Lottery
The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 2021
Mayor Kenney Announces “Philly Vax Sweepstakes” Giving Vaccinated Philadelphians Dozens of Changes to Win Up to $50,000
City of Philadelphia, June 2021
These Are the Text Messages That Get People to Take Vaccines
The Washington Post, June 2021
‘Hassle Factor’ and Distrust Shadow Wide U.S. Vaccine Hesitancy
Bloomberg, March 2021
Video: Wharton’s Dr. Katy Milkman Discusses Vaccine Adoption
CNBC, March 2021
Research Lead: Two Vaccine Megastudies, the Greta Effect, Psychology’s Global Blindspot, and More
Behavioral Scientist, February 2021
Penn Studies Find Text Message Reminders Increase Vaccine Uptake Significantly
The Daily Pennsylvanian, February 2021
The Wharton School, Walmart & More Research Increasing Vaccine Adoption
Clear Admit, February 2021
The Best Evidence for How to Overcome COVID Vaccine Fears
Scientific American, January 2021
The University of Pennsylvania’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative Partners with Walmart on Research Study to Identify Communications that Encourage Vaccinations
Wharton Newsroom, November 2020
Changing Behavior… for Good
The Philadelphia Citizen, November 2020
Katy Milkman Discusses a New Study with Walmart on Encouraging Vaccine Adoption
Wharton Business Daily, November 2020
Katy Milkman on How to Nudge People to Accept a Covid-19 Vaccine
The Economist, November 2020
What Will Persuade People to Take a Vaccine?
Knowledge@Wharton, November 2020
How Goes the Behavior-Change Revolution?
Freakonomics, June 2019
5 Surprising, Cutting-Edge Wharton Collaborations
Wharton Magazine, Fall/Winter 2018
Scientists Reveal Three Characteristics of Those Who Succeed at Behavior Change
24Life, June 2018
Should We Rely on Others to Help Us Break Our Bad Habits?
24Life, May 2018
Can This Dream Team of 47 Top Scientists Finally Figure Out How to Change Bad Habits?
Inc., May 2018
True Grit Is the Predictor of Success
Financial Times, May 2018
Fit Hacks: Join Our First Running Challenge
Financial Times, May 2018
Using Behavioral Science to Build an Exercise Habit
Scientific American, May 2018
In the Quest for Lasting Behavior Change, Two Researchers Lead the Charge
Penn Today, November 2017
How to Launch a Behavior-Change Revolution
Freakonomics Radio, October 2017
Could Solving This One Problem Solve All Others?
Freakonomics Radio, April 2017