UM: Psychology

A story in The Oprah Magazine features UM psychology professor Colleen Seifert, telling a personal anecdote about a life transformation as well as looking at her academic research: “Preparing your mind for a certain behavior increases (by as much as 50 percent) the chance that you’ll pull that behavior off. And that’s what Seifert was attempting: to prepare – or encode into memory – her plans to change her behavior in a way that might change her future. By imagining a new role as a ‘people person,’ she was giving herself a better chance of behaving like one whenever the opportunity arose.” [Source]