Congratulations to Masters student Kelly Wunderlich for winning the 'Best Student Oral Presentation Award' at #ISBNPA2019 ! Well done! #PopPALab Guy Faulkner UBC School of Kinesiology

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Our friends at @B_I_Tweets are hiring for their new Canada office! Sasha Tregebov BEAR UofT Rotman School Melanie Kim Mohsin Bin Latheef @LBrenneman_TD Brianne Kirkpatrick Elizabeth Hardy bi.team/blogs/bit-is-c…

We are proud that what started as a small scale set of pilots now has supported more than 140 research studies at 15 universities. Penn Center for Health Incentives+Behavioral Econ Penn Med Transformation & Innovation Way to Health. We encourage others doing studies of behavioral interventions to use our services pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog…

Hey Canada, you’ve got a B+ for wanting to be more physically active! 74% of Cdn adults plan to be active in the next 6 mths. Are you one of them? Start planning today for your health tomorrow. buff.ly/2q8njyn Su-Ling Goh YYC Fitness PAROntario Exercise Is Medicine CKRecreation

commercial app providing small but immediate digital incentives for individualized goals was associated with an increased weekly mean daily step count on a population-scale over one year ⁦Population Physical Activity Lab⁩ ⁦UBC School of Kinesiology⁩ ⁦ ijbnpa.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Paying people to be active may be cost effective. App that paid people (btw $5-$10 per year) resulted in meaningful increases in activity IJBNPA : bit.ly/2YR2SDX #exercise #digitalhealth #openaccess

Physical Activity as a Coping Strategy for Mental Health Due to the COVID-19 Virus: A Potential Disconnect Among Canadian Adults? frontiersin.org/article/10.338… participaction @LeahJFerguson Norm O'Reilly Leigh van der Loo

Happy holidays from all of us at BEAR UofT ! Appropriately in a zoom window for 2020 :-) Katy Milkman @NinaMazar Heather Devine 🇨🇦 Faisal Naru Chiara Varazzani @B_I_Tweets ideas42 Rotman School

Shout out to our team of superheroes putting in the WORK to make magic happen Peloton 🙌🏽👏🏽✨Thanks Business Insider for the feature! businessinsider.com/peloton-power-…

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Long-term usage of a commercial mHealth app: A “multiple-lives” perspective frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

This large Canadian study suggests that once physical activity is established, financial health incentive programs may be maintained with less frequent and less costly incentives without untoward effects on health behaviors. ja.ma/47oovgl

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We're baaaack! We've launched a new season of #Choiceology & our first episode explores why our minds begin believing false statements if they're often repeated. Learn about the "illusory truth effect" from guest Prof. Tali Sharot (affective.brain). schwab.com/learn/story/re…

The WMS just put out new avalanche survival guidelines, along with a hair-raising case report of a snowboarder in Austria who was buried for 20 hours under 7.5 feet of snow... and survived. ⬇️ outsideonline.com/health/trainin…

Many thanks to Vitality UK Discovery Vitality for hosting a terrific, evidence-based, inspiring discussion of public health, nudging, diet, and exercise. #London #Steps

Reduction of Financial Health Incentives and Physical Activity jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

In a new The Conversation Canada piece, #WesternU kinesiology professor Marc Mitchell (Marc Mitchell) explores the motivating power of financial incentives to form healthy habits. He says rewards don't need to last forever to make a lasting impact. Western Health Sciences news.westernu.ca/2024/03/expert…