Understanding people’s motivations for enlisting can also reveal a lot about the suitability of recruits for the military, given the new demands they face in these roles.
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Artículos sobre Behavioural science
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Overconfidence and other cognitive biases help to drive up real estate prices. Here are three techniques used by real estate agents to exploit those biases.
How the social lives of animals help them survive.
Our research showed reading as a teenager was a stronger indicator of curiosity than, say, their mathematical ability.
The behavioural technique may not be dead just quite yet.
The EU energy label, showing customers the energy consumption of what they’re buying, can be upgraded to help make more homes and buildings energy efficient.
Many well-intentioned people are supporting counterproductive efforts to help Ukraine. Behavioural science can explain why.
Some thought Dan Ariely’s faked data study might be a blow to behavioural science, but actually its exposure shows how behavioural scientists are rooting out false research.
A society in crisis is more than the sum of its flawed parts.
Putting a monetary value on compensation for grave historic wrongs and deciding who should benefit is fraught with difficulties. But there may be another way to look at the whole issue.
An environmental psychologist on what the behavioural science says.
The Conversation is bringing together three experts in human behaviour for an online discussion about how this virus has changed us, and how long the effects might last.
Since the pandemic began, we’ve surveyed ordinary people to see how they’re coping. People from poorer backgrounds, ethnic minorities and young people are suffering most.
A new study documents the influence of Greta Thunberg on the public’s motivation to act on climate change.
Introverts tend to overestimate the negatives of acting like an extravert and underestimate the positives.
With many more months of lockdowns, mask mandates and quarantining in our futures, the government needs to get its messaging just right and we all need to manage our expectations appropriately.
Personal stories work better than statistics when it comes to converting sceptics.
The government should be more honest about what it sees as an acceptable level of risk.
Balancing the benefits and harms of face-mask wearing.
Will people keep social distancing now that the lock down is eased? Our research shows that what matters is people’s own motivation, not the threat of fines.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Stirling
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Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Assistant Research Professor of Computation, Organizations and Society, Carnegie Mellon University
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Lecturer in the School of Psychological Science, University of Bristol
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Professor of Economics (Health Economist), RMIT University
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Marketing, University of Chicago
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Research Fellow, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
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Professor of Psychology, Cornell University
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Professor of Behavioural Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of California, Los Angeles
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Digital and Communications Manager
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, McGill University
