A system for application selection using behavioral propensities includes a computing device configured to identify a negative behavioral propensity associated with a human subject, generate, using category training data including a plurality of applications and a plurality of correlated categories, and using a classification algorithm, an application category classifier, wherein the application category classifier inputs applications and outputs categories of the applications, receive an application to be loaded to a device operated by the human subject, identify, using the application category classifier, a category of the application, wherein identifying the category includes determining, a plurality of application data elements, classifying each application data element of the plurality of application data elements to an application data object of a plurality of application data objects using an object classifier, and inputting the plurality of objects to the application category classifier, and determine an effect of the category on the negative behavioral propensity.