I have developed several different interventions to promote behaviour change. Many of these interventions take the form of inference nudging or inference training.
Inference nudging
Behaviour is an act in context. The environment can be designed in such a way that adaptive behaviour is promoted.
To change the environment in an evidence-based manner, we can draw inspiration from evidence about the (implicit) mental processes that determine behaviour.
Inference nudging interventions involve changing the environment such that goal-directed inferences are evoked that translate into adaptive behaviour.
Inference nudging interventions can be applied to promote all sorts of behaviour, such as pro-environmental or pro-social behaviour, in all sorts of different contexts such as in stores, organizations, or schools.
Inference training
People often engage in repetitive behaviour (i.e., habits) or have recurrent thoughts and feelings.
Notably, these patterns in acting, thinking, and feeling do not always serve important personal goals (e.g., to be healthy or happy) or societal goals (e.g., to promote quality of life and a healthy environment). Importantly, however, people often have difficulty to change these resistent patterns.
Inference training interventions draw inspiration from evidence about the (implicit) mental processes that determine behaviour to foster long-term change. They involve repeated practice of goal-directed inferences to promote alternative automatic patterns.
Inference training interventions can be applied to promote change in all sorts of resistant patterns, such as addictive behaviour, agressive behaviour or depressive thoughts and feelings.