Adam Bulley

Children develop the ability to compensate for memory failures only gradually as they get older. Annie Spratt

February 22, 2018

Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues instead

Adam Bulley, The University of Queensland; Jonathan Redshaw, The University of Queensland, and Sam Gilbert, UCL

Instead of nagging younger kids “not to forget”, and trusting the power of the child’s developing memory alone, try to help them “offload” as much of the work as possible.

Eating a delicious doughnut now seems more rewarding than the nebulous concept of “better future health”. from www.shutterstock.com

February 21, 2018

Why telling people they could get sick in the future won’t persuade them to be healthy now

Adam Bulley, The University of Queensland and Thomas Suddendorf, The University of Queensland

People tend to value potential future rewards less than similar immediate rewards when they must choose between them. Psychologists and economists call this “delay discounting”.

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Parents, stop nagging kids not to forget – set visual cues instead

Why telling people they could get sick in the future won’t persuade them to be healthy now

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