The Science of Breaking Bad Habits with Wendy Wood, PhD: PYP 353

[@redhidinghood9337]

Love this woman. She seems super smart and in control of her life. Great interview!

[@plantyourself]

Many thanks! Yes, she's impressive, and makes great personal use of her research!

[@LilithWhitt-nr5qg]

I find the part about the popcorn experiment odd. Maybe I misunderstood but, the point seemed to be that only the participants who had the habit of eating popcorn ate the stale popcorn even if it didn’t taste great. Couldn’t that just be because they like popcorn more than the participants who didn’t eat popcorn at the cinema? Sure they may have said it tasted bad but that’s a relative descriptor, bad could easily mean relative to ordinary popcorn. You’d have to try to approximate how much they actually internally disliked the popcorn, and if both cohorts didn’t like the stale popcorn equally, then if some still chose to eat it, we could probably attribute that partly to habit.

[@plantyourself]

Great points! That gets me thinking about how to design the next study to eliminate that potential confounding variable.

[@pulkitjain9604]

19:40 : Wendy woods on rewards🔥

[@theresacourage3237]

Hi! I can't find your name anywhere or I would address you with it. I want to say that I appreciate this video and have subscribed to your channel based on it. I like that your humility, which comes through as you ask Dr. Wood's how she would approach your questions and the ones you struggle with to help your clients address. Thanks so much for your dedication to helping others and to continuous improvement.

[@plantyourself]

Thanks, Theresa. I'm Howard - sorry I forget to say it (maybe that's a symptom of a little too much humility ;). You can find me at plantyourself.com/.

[@guynarcomey4205]

Good Interview, thanks, the both of you

[@plantyourself]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@GiovannaMartellato]

Grazie

[@plantyourself]

Prego

[@mytreasuredcreations]

She was doing well until she said that you couldn't eat vegetables if you hated them. 😂😂😂 that's not what happened in my house. Great interview, though.

[@plantyourself]

Researchers often don't know what to make of us WFPB outliers ;)

[@mytreasuredcreations]

@@plantyourself I have a 14 year old son who almost 5 years ago would not eat kale, peas or broccoli. He wouldn't eat brown rice. Experts would probably say he had a texture issue. 😂😂😂 today one of his favorite dishes is brown rice with peas. He loves my kale potato casserole. And broccoli is always welcomed. So yeah! You can learn to like anything, especially since our taste buds change and acclimate. 👍😃

[@mariasoto1837]

I don't like a lot of what I do but I think that living on a 100% plant based low waste diet and lifestyle is better. I would love love love to eat meat and be lazy all day. I would also love to take illegal drugs but I know that they aren't great or safe all the time.. I plan to do what I want when I am an old lady and only have a few years to live.

[@evan-dunn]

@@mytreasuredcreations Seriously! Sometimes I imagine a picky eater living in a different culture/community where they ONLY ate the foods they hate. Certainly they would get over it or die, right? My kids also eat vegetables that they originally hate, we just don't give them other options and eventually they eat it :)