{"id":22273,"date":"2023-01-06T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T07:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/?p=134513"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T09:35:12","slug":"instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/rss_feed\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant Genius Podcast: How to change your habits, with Dr Gabija Toleikyte"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Thomas Ling\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 06 January 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Instant Genius<\/em> is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. And in this episode, we explore the surprising science of behaviour change.<\/p>\n

Are you struggling to form a new habit, or kick an unhelpful one? While behaviour change is doubtlessly difficult, it can be made easier with a few simple psychological tools. To explain this and the neuroscience of habit formation, we speak to Dr Gabija Toleikyte,<\/a> lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n\n<p>Find\u00a0<em>Instant Genius<\/em>\u00a0on your preferred podcast platform here:\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast"\" target=\""_blank"\" rel=\""noopener" noopener noreferrer\">instantgenius.podlink.to\/Podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to more episodes of Instant Genius:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/future-technology\/instant-genius-podcast-future-of-food\/"\">The food of the future, with Evan Fraser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/instant-genius-podcast\/instant-genius-podcast-forensic-science-sue-black\/"\">Forensic science, with Professor Dame Sue Black<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/planet-earth\/instant-genius-podcast-zombie-viruses-arctic\/"\">Zombie viruses in the Arctic, with Dr Arwyn Edwards<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-brain-controlled-machines\/"\">Brain-controlled machines, with Tom Carlson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/the-human-body\/instant-genius-podcast-vitamin-d\/"\">Vitamin D, with Dr Gail Rees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\""https:\/\/www.sciencefocus.com\/nature\/instant-genius-podcast-bird-flu\/"\">Bird Flu, with Dr Alastair Ward<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thomas Ling Published: Friday, 06 January 2023 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. And in this episode, we explore the surprising science of behaviour change. Are you struggling to form a new habit, or kick an unhelpful one? While behaviour change is doubtlessly difficult, it can be made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":22274,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte.jpg",940,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte-300x128.jpg",300,128,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte-768x327.jpg",768,327,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte.jpg",800,340,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte.jpg",940,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/01\/instant-genius-podcast-how-to-change-your-habits-with-dr-gabija-toleikyte.jpg",940,400,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Thomas Ling Published: Friday, 06 January 2023 at 12:00 am Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. And in this episode, we explore the surprising science of behaviour change. Are you struggling to form a new habit, or kick an unhelpful one? While behaviour change is doubtlessly difficult, it can be made…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/22273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}