Concepts (page 12)
- Environment Design
Environment design is the deliberate arrangement of the situations you spend your time in, the rooms, the inputs, the people and the constraints, on the view that these do more to determine how you…
- Escalation of Commitment
Escalation of commitment is Barry Staw's finding that people increase investment in a failing course of action after receiving evidence that it is failing. Negative feedback, which ought to prompt…
- Exercise Adherence
Exercise adherence is the research field's name for whether a person keeps training over weeks, months and years, as distinct from how motivated they felt on the day they started. The best single…
- Exercise Identity
Exercise identity is the degree to which being someone who trains forms part of how a person understands themselves, rather than being something they are currently doing. It is among the most…
- Expectation Disconfirmation
An expectation that is met gets absorbed into the experience. An expectation that is broken becomes the experience, usually as disappointment, even when the product itself was fine.
- Expected Satiation
Expected satiation is how filling a person believes a food will be, judged before they have eaten any of it. The belief is learned from previous experience with that particular food rather than read…
- Experimenter Expectancy
An experimenter who expects a particular result tends to get it. The standard reading is that they record the data with a thumb on the scale. The stronger and better-evidenced version is that the…
- Expressive Arts Therapy
Expressive arts therapy is intermodal arts therapy: painting, movement, music, poetry and performance used together within one practice, on the premise that the imagination moves between forms and…
- Expressive Writing
Expressive writing is James Pennebaker's paradigm: write continuously about an upsetting or traumatic experience for fifteen to twenty minutes a day, on three or four consecutive days, without…
- External Triggers
An external trigger is any cue outside a person that tells them what to do next, as opposed to an internal trigger, which is felt rather than seen or heard. Nir Eyal splits external triggers into…
- Fear of Missing Out
Fear of missing out is the anxiety that an absent self is missing a rewarding experience others are having. The term is older than its famous coinage: Dan Herman published it in 2000, and a 2004…
- Fixed and Growth Mindset
The claim is that people hold one of two implicit theories about ability. Entity theorists treat intelligence as fixed, something you have a quantity of. Incremental theorists treat it as…