Results for Human Behavior Consultants

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Mayo Clinic researchers identified 69 "never" events among 1.5 million invasive procedures performed over five years and detailed why each occurred. Using a system created to investigate military plane crashes, they coded the human behaviors involved to identify any environmental, organizational, job and individual characteristics that led to the never events. Their discovery: 628 human factors contributed to the errors overall, roughly four to nine per…

For Simon Garnier of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike has become an opportunity to ponder human inefficiency. Garnier is studying ants and slime mold in order to better understand collective human behavior.

The ways horses interact in herds can offer lessons for human interaction too. (Getty Images)Psychotherapists have plumbed all sorts of relationships in their quest to understand and improve human communication, so perhaps it was only a matter of time before they studied horse sense. Herd behavior, changing habits, building trust — it seems that people have a lot to learn from Equus ferus caballusPsychotherapist…

Should tech companies better discipline the algorithms influencing what kids are watching?

Whether you’re a coach or a salesperson, if your communication approach is overly tilted toward your own human Behavior Style, you risk ignoring or failing to connect with what the other person cares about most.

For a product designer, an interface is not just a collection of words and pixels. Everything we design is a potential study in human behavior. Understanding human behaviors and motivations can help designers create interfaces that people truly connect with. But being able to defend your thinking in a stakeholder presentation is another story.

How can we find the signal when there is so much noise? We don’t have an effective way to predict what will happen next, history tells us that. We do have a way to understand what happened wh…

When the Napa earthquake hit, Jawbone’s data scientists saw sleep patterns disrupted in near-real time.

We’ve seen massive growth in the scientific understanding of what animals think, know, and feel. But we sure aren’t acting like it.