Samuel Salzer and Aline Holzwarth
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How can we change behavior in practice? What role does AI have to play in behavioral design? Listen in as hosts Samuel Salzer and Aline Holzwarth speak with leading experts on all things behavioral science, AI, design, and beyond. The Behavioral Design Podcast from Habit Weekly and Nuance Behavior provides a fun and engaging way to learn about applied behavioral science and how to design for behavior change in practice. The latest season explores the fascinating intersection of Behavioral Design and AI. Subscribe and follow! For questions or to get in touch, email [email protected].
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It brings behavioral science to AI questions about trust, targeting, risk and the design of systems that influence people.
The Behavioral Design Podcast keeps returning to a practical question: what changes when AI systems meet human judgment and behavior? Co-hosts Aileen Holsworth and Samuel Seltzer lead expert conversations that connect moral decision-making, psychological targeting, adaptive…
An AI song faces Eurovision in a musical Turing test; your confidence gets a score.
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A season recap tracks AI's behavioral questions through personalization, digital footprints, and algorithmic sameness.
The Behavioral Design Podcast's season four recap treats the meeting point of AI and behavioral science as more than a passing theme. Its strongest thread is the personalization paradox: when many people bring similar tasks to generative AI, supposedly customized outputs may…
A practical look at scoring the behavioral choices behind onboarding, retention, and real-world change.
The Behavioural Design Podcast frames behavior change as a product-design challenge, using a practical scoring lens to move from theory into decisions.
AI therapy, loneliness research, and what clinicians can learn from recorded sessions.
The Behavioral Design Podcast sets two mental-health AI stories side by side: therapy and companionship as common generative AI uses, and the uneasy question of when help starts to become overuse.
A grounded look at how calendar software can protect attention, move focus time, and soften the friction around odd meeting times.
Calendar software is usually treated as neutral infrastructure. This episode frames it as something closer to a behavioral tool, shaping how people protect attention, deal with unusual meeting times, and leave enough space for actual work.
A practical benchmark tests AI literature-review tools beyond the screenshot hype.
AI literature-review tools often arrive wrapped in screenshots and LinkedIn certainty. This Behavioral Design Podcast episode takes the more useful route, following Aileen Holsworth and Samuel Seltzer as they walk through a group benchmark of systems promising AI-generated…
A calendar can make urgent work look more important than it is.
This episode makes a simple case: calendars can blur urgency with importance. Sam and Aline keep it grounded in their own schedules, then show how meetings, appointments, and deadlines can crowd out work that is more strategic or creative. The point lands because it is familiar.
Samuel Seltzer and Aline Holsworth use pill bottles as a case study in medication adherence, starting from the intention-action gap and the reality that more than two medications often turns a bottle into a pill box problem.
The Behavioral Design Podcast brings Samuel together with Hassan Aleem, a behavioral practitioner with a PhD in neuroscience, to discuss AI in user research, chatbots, synthetic users, and literature reviews.
The Behavioral Design Podcast season 3 finale centers on gratitude, with Aline Holsworth describing a daily dinner ritual of saying “our gratefuls” and Samuel Salzer connecting that habit to well-being research.
Calendars beat pumpkin spice lattes, somehow.
Samuel welcomes Roos van Duijnhoven to the Behavioural Design Podcast for a discussion tied to Nuance Behaviour’s Behaviour Change Score report on fitness apps and digital health products.
The Behavioral Design Podcast episode with Steph Habif centers on diabetes technology, college basketball, and the “major brand problem” she sees in behavioral science.
Samuel Soltzer and Eileen Halsworth open by questioning claims about the “death” of user research, UX, design thinking, and behavioral science amid layoffs at UX teams and IDEO.
The Behavioral Design Podcast episode on “AI Therapy with Alison Cerezo” centers on a tension between clinically validated chatbot use and research from OpenAI and MIT suggesting heavier LLM use can increase loneliness.
Hosts Samuel and Aline critique the book Nudge, discussing its limitations and the organ donation default example.
Linda Babcock discusses her research on non-promotable tasks (NPTs), revealing how women disproportionately take on invisible work that doesn't advance their careers.
Mitesh Patel discusses how behavioral design and gamification can improve health outcomes, sharing examples like defaults for generic medications and active choice interventions for preventive care.
The Behavioral Design Podcast season 4 finale centers on the hosts' most controversial AI opinions, from Aileen Holsworth's warning that "the bigger risk is actually all the ways that AI goes right" to Samuel Seltzer's claim that AI may already be past the Turing test.
AI meets behavioral science.
Season four goes all in on AI, but the recap does not treat that as an easy win.