Vaccination, sport, nutrition: How can behavior be steered in desirable directions? With extensive experiments, psychologists try to clarify a question that is particularly important in the pandemic.
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Sebastian Herrmann
A core problem in life is that the sensible things are usually not much fun. In spite of all the assurances of the women-men healthiness magazines, diets donate significantly less cheerfulness than multi-course meals with beautiful wine accompaniment. Full throttle is just more fun than pulling the handbrake, sleeping in lifts the mood higher than the early morning fight with the snooze button on the alarm clock. And so forth. A second core problem in life is that enjoyable things often have stupid side effects in the long term: obesity, liver damage, sluggishness, risk of accidents. And so forth.