Behavior change is an important aspect of most efforts to help the world (whether it’s getting students to do their homework, getting parents to vaccinate their children, getting people to seek mental health treatment when they need it, and so on).
Unfortunately, people often don’t take the behaviors that are most in their own interests, let alone the interests of society at large. So self-applied behavior change is also an essential part of improving our own lives.
In this talk, I’ll discuss ways that behavior change matters and how we can use it to improve the world, as well as lay out a framework for how we can get more effective at creating new positive behaviors
About the speaker:
Spencer is an entrepreneur and mathematician. He’s the founder of Spark Wave, a startup foundry which creates novel software products from scratch, designed to help solve problems in the world using behavioral science (e.g. scalable care for depression and anxiety, technology for accelerating and improving social science research).
He also founded ClearerThinking.org, which offers free tools and training programs used by over 200,000 people, which are designed to help you improve decision-making, increase positive behaviors, and reduce cognitive biases. Spencer has a PhD in applied math from NYU, with a specialty in machine learning. Spencer’s work has been featured by numerous major media outlets, such as the Wall Street Journal, the Independent, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Fast Company, and the Financial Times.
For more information, contact Brett F. Whysel at bwhysel@bmcc.cuny.edu.
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