2024-04-24 10:32
There is growing interest in ‘synthetic respondents’, where LLMs (such as Chat GPT and or Microsoft Bard) use artificially created profiles to simulate the characteristics and re… Read More
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2024-04-06 14:11
A recent report found some men were issuing mobile payment requests from unsuccessful dates, asking the woman (in the reported cases) they were dating to pay for half of the drinks they had… Read More
2024-03-15 15:58
Beliefs sit at the heart of our lives shaping so much of how we live, work, play, fight and find peace. And yet there is a surprising lack of analysis of what we actually mean by beliefs: ty… Read More
2024-02-23 10:59
The finding of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that we need to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 43% by 2030 means we are in a situation where collective behaviour needs t… Read More
2024-02-12 07:44
New problems, new approaches, new publicity: there is little doubt that behavioural science has grown up significantly over the last decade. From language focused on irrational behaviours, n… Read More
2024-01-26 18:07
The world is at a momentous point with the over the next two years, around three billion people will head to the electoral polls across several economies, including the Bangladesh, India, In… Read More
2024-01-20 20:08
‘What does it mean to be human?’ is a question that we do not often ask even though in some ways it is often on our minds. This is the question that I have explored in my book, O… Read More
2024-01-13 12:14
Despite the range of TV programmes and media articles that extol the virtues of housework and domestic bliss, those actually doing the domestic labour typically want to see the back of it. M… Read More
2023-12-20 16:54
2024 is set to be a year in which we will see big behavioural movements – much of which we think will be based around the crystalising of mental models. What do we mean by this? … Read More
2023-12-14 11:28
‘Brand purpose’, the notion that there is a purpose beyond the reason a business exists beyond making a profit, has far reaching implications for businesses by reflecting its val… Read More
2023-11-25 10:31
Some of the acts of greatest bravery, creativity and inventiveness come from environments which are hostile and unpromising – take Pussy Riot, a Russian feminist protest punk rock grou… Read More
2023-11-10 15:31
One of the many disturbing claims coming from the UK’s COVID Inquiry being held currently is that there was hubris and over-confidence in the government’s pandemic response which… Read More
2023-11-08 08:42
That humans have endless capabilities for understanding each other in nuanced ways is well understood. We are all aware of the subtle eye roll or glance away that can communicate so much. Th… Read More
2023-10-28 14:49
With Halloween upon us, now might be a good time to share the interesting finding that about half the world’s population believes in ‘supernatural spirits’ – a term t… Read More
2023-10-25 17:44
Alien’s it seems are amongst us, or they were in the past at least according to according to Jaime Maussan, a well-known extraterrestrial investigator. At a meeting on the topic o… Read More
2023-10-14 14:11
Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March unfolded in 1930 and involved Gandhi and a group of followers marching over 240 miles to the Arabian Sea, where they produced their own salt, openly protesting ag… Read More
2023-10-06 11:05
A recent article in The Atlantic magazine highlighted the somewhat baffling contradiction of the microwave cooker – although you can find many beautifully designed and technologically… Read More
2023-09-22 13:49
Failed oil company Enron successfully marketed itself as not just an energy company, but an innovative leader at the forefront of transforming the industry. Its narrative revolved around the… Read More
2023-09-05 18:08
We live, it can seem, in a world where we can no longer trust our senses, with ‘deep fakes’ renegotiating our relationship with reality. Take the above example of the AI-ge… Read More
2023-07-23 20:20
For a word that is frequently used but often unexamined, ‘belief’ shapes an awful lot of today’s debates and discourse: we live in a world there often seems to be astonishm… Read More
2023-07-14 13:40
It is said that truth is a fragile commodity as people readily talk ‘bullshit’ with no effort made to check the truthfulness or otherwise of what is said said to their audience… Read More
2023-07-01 08:51
A widely shared meme earlier this year was that of the ‘Pope in a Puffer’, showing Pope Francis looking stylish in a silver puffer jacket. Just why did this create so much intere… Read More
2023-06-16 12:53
We live in a world of ‘wicked problems’, where the big societal challenges we face are complex, their resolution unpredictable and, crucially, there is no single right answer.&nb&hell…Read More
2023-06-08 12:57
The family is often considered to be the primary way in which care is delivered – whether this is for children, the ill, those with particular needs and older people. And while m… Read More
2023-05-29 15:59
Nearly half of working-age women are providing an average of 45 hours of unpaid care every week, while 25% of men provide 17 hours, according to a study from the thinktank Centre for Progres… Read More
2023-05-19 15:07
It is possible that artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most transformative technologies of our time. Bill Gates even called it as revolutionary as mobile phones and the internet. And… Read More
2023-05-12 17:08
Fandom is the act of joining with others who have a deep interest in a particular object of anything from a book series, film franchise, TV show, music artist, sports team, video game, or ev… Read More
2023-05-06 06:48
Wellness is a term that is used to describe a huge range of areas as diverse as health, finance, dietary supplements, yoga, ‘chemical-free’ beauty products and clean eating, to n… Read More
2023-04-25 12:29
Being well is something that concerns us all – indeed there are surely few more pressing issues for humans than our health and wellness. There is a huge investment to underpin this: th… Read More
2023-04-15 09:34
We often talk about the importance of trust and the way in which this is so central to policy making and marketing. But while we can see the value of trust, we argue that the onus also… Read More
2023-03-31 12:01
Consciously or not, trust underpins much of how we operate. For example, when we do our weekly grocery shop, we are trusting that others have produced our food in adherence to health a… Read More
2023-03-31 10:08
To what extent do we really care about privacy anymore? It has been over a decade now since it was claimed that privacy is no longer a social norm and yet this debate is still swirling aroun… Read More
2023-03-24 15:30
The pages of the website we have recently left greet us upon our return like old friends, the news articles we linger on issue invitations for us to read similar articles, recommendations ar… Read More
2023-03-10 08:30
ChatGPT and the other versions of generative AI have upended technology markets in ways that seem to have taken many commentators by surprise. The media has been full of discussion of the po… Read More
2023-02-26 09:54
We are never far from a news headline which suggests humans are a deluded and suggestible bunch, vulnerable to fakery, swept up in a swirl of misinformation and conspiracy theories. Humans… Read More
2023-02-10 09:11
There has been an explosion in plant based foods with a recent report finding that 48% of the UK adult population claim to include at least one type of plant-based alternative to cow’s… Read More
2023-02-10 06:53
2023-02-03 14:08
The debate about ‘what behavioural science is and does’ continues with a response by Michael Hallsworth of BIT to the paper by Nick Chater and George Lowenstein. The p… Read More
2023-01-28 11:44
Living in a particularly unstable and unpredictable period of history means we are more reliant than ever on learning anew: many of the things we know from the past will not necessarily serv… Read More
2023-01-13 17:22
We have long been fascinated by the lives of the wealthy, with reality TV shows such as The Kardashians catering for our interests; these have typically been highly aspirational, spawning wi… Read More
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